I’ve been thinking, and I’ve come up with a cunning plan for building a prototype:
- First, a Google form where people can submit details of their HP monitoring site, and other information like what Trystan had proposed.
This makes it easy to collect and maintain the information without having to build a database with accessible forms, logins, and all that. We can do that bit later as and when it’s needed. - Second, we build a lightweight web page that displays the data from the Google sheet and links out to the stats for each system.
- But then, instead of linking out to other websites we can host a single instance of the MyHeatPump app, and pull in the relevant data directly from emoncms. All we need to know is the address and read apikey.
The app can also be not-fresh, i.e. not show data from this week, or something. - We can then have a background process that collects overall SCOP, last week’s COP, and other stats from each system to display in the main table. A simple database will be just fine here.
Thoughts? Does this seem like a good way to start?