Input configuration for battery_discharge to show total household consumption

[Robert.Wall]

@NickC

I started with an emonpi and configured inputs for my grid and solar sensors. All looked good. I wanted to also monitor my battery, so got an emontx and plugged all the sensors into it.

Should I configure the emontx inputs to route the feeds to the emonpi, or is it ok to have the feeds on the emontx. The apps don’t seem to care, but I don’t want to find I have to change things later and lose any history.

I don’t understand the question. In the context of emonCMS, a “Feed” is the data that has been conditioned and manipulated by the processing on the “Inputs” page, and it’s where and how the data is stored. So all your history is in the Feed.

Your data comes from the emonTx instantly - there’s no storage on the emonTx at all - and it’s labelled at the emonTx with a NodeID. When the data arrives in the emonPi, it’s received by emonHub, checked and passed into emonCMS and appears as an Input, now labelled with the name it picked up in emonHub.