I have a sewage treatment plant and the blower stopped working. Looking at the house use graphs on Emoncms, I was able to see when the base house usage dropped by about 40W and that it had been off for just over a month!
It occured to me that it would be handy to have Emoncms notify me should this happen again in the future. Googling around the subject, it seems I should be able to use the eventp module’s ‘send email’ process on the inputs page. I can’t find any documentation on how to set this up other than:
It means exactly that: jump directly to Step 8. If there isn’t a Sep 8, it falls off the end.
You look at it in conjunction with the step before, if >=, skip next.
If the value at step 2 is 20 or greater, processing jumps to step 4. Otherwise, it falls through to step 3 and then jumps to step 8.
The same happens with steps 4 & 5.
Ah okay, so is it that there is no step 8 and it is designed to end processing with a non existent step unless the value is over 20 or it’s been an hour since the last email was sent?
Hi Mark,
I have exactly the same problem. When the blower diaphrams fail, the blower trips and often I don’t notice until the system starts to smell. My blower draws about 75W when operating. The minimum total load during the quiet hours is about 190W.
I run a NodeRed script once a day that looks for the minimum load during the quiet hours and generates a report when it drops below 150W. I use a servce app called Pushover to push any reports from my system to my mobile phone.
Cheers
Simon
I’ve never tested it, but that looks about right. Falling off the end of the processing steps means nothing more happens to whatever value was being processed and it is lost forever.
I had read that some folks use nodered to set up alerts but as I have never used it and would have to learn it, it seems easier if it can be done all within Emoncms.
I will continue and see if I come up against any more issues…
Cheers,
Mark
