[mh] Whole House Power Meter

[Chester Lapeza]

This looks cool. With (eventual?) X4X integration you could set your own
"rolling blackouts" in the house when energy consumption gets too high!

Of course, we'd probably see that the whole energy savings with an automated
home is a near wash with most typical systems...

Chester

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Greg Satz <satz at iranger.com> wrote:

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> > From: Chris <chrislk73 at yahoo.com>
> > Date: February 27, 2008 8:49:55 AM MST
> > To: misterhouse-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [mh] Whole House Power Meter
> > Reply-To: The main list for the MisterHouse home automation program
> > <misterhouse-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
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> > I've looked for a solution to whole house monitoring for some
> > time.  I finally settled on TED last August and think it's great.
> > My TED 1000 is on it's way to the factory to be unlocked.  Once
> > unlocked it will spit the raw data out of  it's serial port.  Newer
> > TEDs have a USB port and I am not sure how that works.
> > Footprints is the software package they sell for windows only.
> > From my conversations with them they plan to release an SDK in the
> > next month or so.  You still need to get your TED unlocked to get
> > the IO port activated.  I decided to write my own code and not wait
> > for the SDK.
> > Chris
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