{"id":1722,"date":"2025-04-24T03:02:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2025-04-24T03:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:02:53","slug":"learn-utility-meters-by-way-of-sdr-to-fill-out-good-residence-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=1722","title":{"rendered":"Learn Utility Meters By way of SDR To Fill Out Good Residence Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-698516\">\n    <\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>[Jeff Sandberg] has put a good bit of effort into including photo voltaic and battery storage with related smarts to his house, however his power utilization statistics had been incomplete. His answer was to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pdx.su\/blog\/2024-03-17-reading-my-electric-meter-with-rtlsdr\/\" target=\"_blank\">learn knowledge from the utility meter utilizing RTL-SDR<\/a> to fill within the blanks. The outcomes are good to date, and there\u2019s no motive related readings for fuel and water can\u2019t even be finished.<\/p>\n<p>[Jeff] makes use of the open supply house automation software program <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.home-assistant.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">Residence Assistant<\/a> which integrates properly together with his photo voltaic and battery backup system, however because of the means his home is wired, it\u2019s solely conscious of about half of the power utilization in the home. For instance, [Jeff]\u2019s heavy home equipment get their energy instantly from the facility firm and aren&#8217;t a part of the photo voltaic and battery programs. Which means Residence Assistant\u2019s power statistics are incomplete.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, within the USA most good meters broadcast their knowledge in a fashion that a cheap software-defined radio like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2019\/07\/31\/rtl-sdr-seven-years-later\/\">RTL-SDR<\/a> can entry. That offered [Jeff] with the information he wanted to get a way more full image of his power utilization.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2017\/12\/21\/read-home-power-meters-with-rtl-sdr\/\">getting knowledge from utility meters is conceptually simple<\/a>, really implementing issues in a means that built-in together with his system took a bit extra work. When you\u2019re discovering your self in the identical boat, you&#8217;ll want to have a look at [Jeff]\u2019s documentation to get some concepts.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>    \n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Jeff Sandberg] has put a good bit of effort into including photo voltaic and battery storage with related smarts to his house, however his power utilization statistics had been incomplete. His answer was to learn knowledge from the utility meter utilizing RTL-SDR to fill within the blanks. The outcomes are good to date, and there\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[1679,85,1677,1675,1678,83,1680,1676],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smart-home-iot","tag-fill","tag-home","tag-meters","tag-read","tag-sdr","tag-smart","tag-stats","tag-utility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1723,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions\/1723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. 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