Very much a newbie, so please bear with me … :grinning: I have plugged my new emonPi in, c/w 2 CT sensors and an AC voltage sensor; I set up wifi access, and can now “see” it on my laptop via emonpi.local (wirelessly). All good so far. Within the Emoncms>Inputs>emonpi screen there are various entr…

[image] borpin: My personal bet is the WiFi router is the issue as the ESP does connect sometimes so the WiFi setup and Emoncms credentials must be correct. Thanks Brian; certainly all four units have in the past communicated fine for a period of time. Would “pointing” the three EmonTx/ESP82…

It is odd that the data is getting to emoncms.org and not the local server. @TrystanLea - does the ESP transmit to both sets of data via API calls or is the remote one API and the internal MQTT? Is there a hardcoded MQTT clientID by any chance? @haffle , if you only run one of the EmonTX/ESP combo…

[image] haffle: I haven’t looked at the MQTT stuff yet, but fear that for now at least that is beyond my comfort zone. @pb66 - I could not find it (long thread) but has the RFM actually been disabled or is it still running? AIUI, the ESP can only setup one server by API (in this case emoncms…

Thanks Brian. I haven’t knowingly done anything with the RFM - I just assumed that having used the ESP8266s that that would take care of the comms. (AIUI, the three EmonTx/ESP8266 “report” straight through to emoncms.org via wifi, and the emonPi does also. I don’t think the Tx’s communicate with t…

If your EmonESP setup page looks like this [image] it is currently sending data to emoncms.org via an HTTP API call - this is why it works. However, it only sends it to that server not your EmonPi. I’m pretty certain the data you are seeing on the Pi is what is b…

@haffle Do you have a programmer, and are you happy to edit the emonTx sketch, compile and reload it? If you are, you can disable the RFM by commenting out line 471 in the sketch: send_rf_data(); // *SEND RF DATA* - see emontx_lib Just put t…

@Robert.Wall , would it be easier to disable the receiver on the EmonPi?

In short, probably not. The procedure to update the sketch in the emonPi is a lot more complicated than for the emonTx. But if @haffle wishes to tackle that, the lines that need commenting are 263 - 265 in src.ino. That will prevent reception but should allow transmission if an emonGLCD is ever a…

@borpin Brian, just to clarify my thoughts … I think that my three emonTx/ESP8266 are reporting straight through to emoncms.org , and not to my emonPi; the emonPi is also reporting through to emoncms.org , and all my Inputs and Feeds are created within & hosted by emoncms.org remotely. Assuming thi…

[image] haffle: I think that my three emonTx/ESP8266 are reporting straight through to emoncms.org , and not to my emonPi; Assuming you have blanked out the API fields etc - yes you are talking to emoncms.org . But I think you said you are seeing data on the EmonPi ? As I said, the EmonPi wil…

Setting up an emonPi - some newbie questions

Getting Started

borpin (Brian Orpin) 11 September 2019 17:20 80

I’ve suggested elsewhere that perhaps there should be a mechanism for selecting the inputs you want to use rather than allowing anything discovered appearing.