A hack to monitor your natural gas meter by Beerware license creator

http://phk.freebsd.dk/Gasdims/

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dazzawazza2• 16 years ago

I'm currently playing with the XML stream from my currentcost meter [1]. Within a week I've reduced about 20% of my electricity use. I wish I could track my Gas usage with such ease.

[1] http://www.currentcost.com/

njharman• 16 years ago

Looks pretty interesting. What did you have to buy exactly to get XML Stream?

dazzawazza2• 16 years ago

I bought the 'classic' current cost meter and the USB cable. All current cost devices provide an XML stream from a serial port.

arethuza2• 16 years ago

There could well be a start-up opportunity right there - create simple wireless sensors that can be location near meters and feed this to a web site that can track and provide advice on energy usage as well as giving notification of what current energy usage is remotely.

joezydeco• 16 years ago

You mean like this one?

http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/review/black-and-decker-power...

Aside from the available ones that track the spin of electrical meters or grab data from the optical port. This is the first one I've seen for a gas meter though. Clever hack. Although my gas meter uses the old dials with needles, the same kind of optosenor hack could work there too.

arethuza2• 16 years ago

Pity that's a standalone unit - can't see reference to any kind of data interface.

A hack to monitor your natural gas meter by Beerware license creator

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