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Topic: The Open Grid / Calculations not working (all 0's)

Hey bbroge,

Some maintainance was done yesterday, and while the site was down, the API was still catching data.  This was then loaded up, and aggregations were recalculated after the reload.

This would explain what happened.  

Sam, @samotage

Topic: The Open Grid / Calculations not working (all 0's)

Hmmm. It started working again today. I'll post back if it starts acting up again.

Topic: The Open Grid / Calculations not working (all 0's)

Hi, My "today's cost" gadget and other gadets stopped working for some reason. I only see my "right now" gadget which has the total watts usage working. The min and max values are not calculating though. When I click it it also says this- "My calculations seem to have been delayed for some reason"

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Topic: The Open Grid / Determining my Hydro Costs

Hey Jason,

Thanks for the kudos ;)

SEG has some pretty rudimentary cost calculations right now... There are however some time of use and basic rating in the pipeline, so you just need to wait for that ;)

Sam,

who has built at least 3 utility billing systems.

Topic: The Open Grid / Service Outage

Its better now!

Sam.

Topic: The Open Grid / Determining my Hydro Costs

After much support from some in the forums (a big thanks to Sam) I got my GEM reporting to SEG.  I have started gathering data into my streams and it is fun to watch the impact of turning certain things on and off.

How would I go about converting these watt measurements into a cost unit.  I'd like to know for example, how much my hot water tank costs me.  In Ottawa, Canada, we are hooked up to a smart meter whereby the Hydro company charges different rates depending on the time of day.  For example, everything after 8:00pm might be 5 cents per KWh whereas daytime use might be 7 cents.

Thanks,

Jason

Topic: The Open Grid / Service Outage

Hello Sam,

There are some instance of fail amiss. The round gadgets that monitor the current power consumption appears to be broken. They do not update unless you refresh the screen. This problem started aprox 24 hours ago. Time permitting please work your magic!

As always, I thank you!

Teken . . .

Topic: Comments and Suggestions / Still having toubles getting my GEM discovered on SEG

DNS should come from upstream.  I know google tends to work properly, with 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 - one of a few that actually respect the settings for a domain!

Many other ISP based DNS services are crap, and often can't resolve properly...

Glad you found some win!

Sam, @samotage

Topic: Comments and Suggestions / Still having toubles getting my GEM discovered on SEG

I'll look into it a bit more.  I believe there used to be a DNS section whereby you could configure the DNS server the GEM to use.  That appears to be gone in the new web based config.

Topic: Comments and Suggestions / Still having toubles getting my GEM discovered on SEG

It planned that the SEG IP addresses will be changing some this year - not the service URL

Topic: Comments and Suggestions / Still having toubles getting my GEM discovered on SEG

DNS eh?  How about that?

Do you know any more about this problem?  The resource is api.smartenergygroups.com (which will be subject to change too BTW ;)

Sam, @samotage

Topic: Comments and Suggestions / Still having toubles getting my GEM discovered on SEG

It looks like my issue was with DNS.  Once I put in the IP Address for this website my GEM started reporting.  Thanks everyone for their help.

Topic: Comments and Suggestions / Still having toubles getting my GEM discovered on SEG

The com light just stays a solid yellowish/green.  I'm pretty sure it isn't sending anything out....

Topic: Comments and Suggestions / Still having toubles getting my GEM discovered on SEG

Hey Jason,

If you have the API trace on, then anything you send (good or bad) will be logged.  it sounds to me like there is something on your end that could be the problem?

Sam.

Topic: Comments and Suggestions / Still having toubles getting my GEM discovered on SEG

Hi again

My device is showing as offline again.  It really doesn't seem like my GEM is transmitting anything useful to SEG

Topic: Comments and Suggestions / Still having toubles getting my GEM discovered on SEG

My concern was that the expression was valid but the GEM wasn't sending it properly.  I guess you are able to see that my GEM is indeed communicating with SEG?

Topic: Comments and Suggestions / Still having toubles getting my GEM discovered on SEG

I don't know... The s-expression you sent just worked!

Topic: Comments and Suggestions / Still having toubles getting my GEM discovered on SEG

Thanks Sam.  What was the problem?  Was I doing something wrong?

Topic: Comments and Suggestions / Still having toubles getting my GEM discovered on SEG

Done, I just pasted you packet into your trace tool, with your site set to discovery mode and the win happened!

Now, you are onto the next problem ;)

Sam, @samotage

Topic: Comments and Suggestions / Still having toubles getting my GEM discovered on SEG

Thanks Sam - I just emailed you the packet