Aeotec Energy Monitor Support

[jamoir]

Hi,

Is there any plan to add energy monitor support?

I've just bought this: Z-Wave Aeon Labs Clamp Power Meter Gen5 - One Clamp (100A)

And would love to see it in home kit

Thanks, Jamie

[SphtKr]

That may already work, but Apple doesn't actually have an officially supported energy meter characteristic. However, Elgato's Eve Energy device does this via HomeKit, and they have a custom characteristic. Homebridge-ZWay actually publishes data for this characteristic when it recognizes an amp-meter or volt-meter, but you have to view it in the Eve app (it doesn't show up in Apple's Home app). Download the Eve app if you haven't already and see if perhaps it shows up in there. If not, then send me your devices JSON.

[jamoir]

Hi

Thanks for getting back to me. I've had a look in the Eve app and can't see it there. How do I find the device JSON to send over?

Thanks, Jamie

On 3 Jan 2017, at 05:58, SphtKr notifications@github.com<mailto:notifications@github.com> wrote:

That may already work, but Apple doesn't actually have an officially supported energy meter characteristic. However, Elgato's Eve Energy device does this via HomeKit, and they have a custom characteristic. Homebridge-ZWay actually publishes data for this characteristic when it recognizes an amp-meter or volt-meter, but you have to view it in the Eve app (it doesn't show up in Apple's Home app). Download the Eve app if you haven't already and see if perhaps it shows up in there. If not, then send me your devices JSONhttps://github.com/SphtKr/homebridge-zway#getting-zautomationapiv1devices.

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[SphtKr]

The README on the front page has a section with instructions on retrieving devices.json

[jamoir]

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[SphtKr]

Ah, I think I know what's going on. So, I built support for energy meters that were built into plugs. So while the Characteristic support is there, it doesn't build a device out of your Aeotec meter because it doesn't find a primary device type that it can be. Also, neither Apple's HomeKit taxonomy nor Eve's really has a device that is only an electric meter. I can fix this--worst case--by implementing a dummy "outlet" that can't be controlled, and is just there to let the electric meters piggyback on it. It'll still only work in Eve (possibly Hesperus?) but at least it'll work.

[jamoir]

That would be awesome.

Hopefully one day soon home kit will support it. Although the eve app is looking much better now.

Thanks so much for this plugin, I use it all the time for my zwave devices.

On 5 Jan 2017, at 18:50, SphtKr notifications@github.com<mailto:notifications@github.com> wrote:

Ah, I think I know what's going on. So, I built support for energy meters that were built into plugs. So while the Characteristic support is there, it doesn't build a device out of your Aeotec meter because it doesn't find a primary device type that it can be. Also, neither Apple's HomeKit taxonomy nor Eve's really has a device that is only an electric meter. I can fix this--worst case--by implementing a dummy "outlet" that can't be controlled, and is just there to let the electric meters piggyback on it. It'll still only work in Eve (possibly Hesperus?) but at least it'll work.

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[jamoir]

Hi,

Did you get a chance to do this update?

Would really love to see my current power usage in home

Thanks, Jamie