Current Cost energy monitor data uploader to emonCMS

A Node.js script to process data from a Current Cost energy monitor and import it to emonCMS

Requirements

Node.js => v8.10.0

Dependencies

Node.js package - serialport
Node.js package - libxmljs
Node.js package - request
Node.js package - winston
Node.js package - winston-daily-rotate-file

Installation

Download from Github git clone https://github.com/creativeview/currentcost-emoncms-uploader.git
cd currentcost-emoncms-uploader
To install dependencies run npm install
Installation of dependencies on ARM systems takes a long time. On a Raspberry Pi Zero this can take over 30mins.

Configuration

The Current Cost to emonCMS uploader is configured using the default.json file located within the config folder.

Key	Value
uploadURL	The url for the post.json file on the emoncms server. `http://emonserver/input/post.json` You should only need to update the server name.
uploadNode	The Node you will be uploading data to on emoncms.
uploadAPIKey	The API key for your emoncms server.
comPort	The com port the Current Cost is connected to. E.g. On Linux this could be: `/dev/ttyUSB0`. On Windows this could be `COM4`
logLevel	The logging level the application uses.

{
    "uploadURL": "http://emonserver/input/post.json",
    "uploadNode": "1",
    "uploadAPIKey": "emonapikey",
    "comPort":"/dev/ttyUSB0",
    "logLevel":"info"
}

Running Current Cost to emonCMS uploader

To run the application use the command npm start

Running as a service

To run the Current Cost to emonCMS uploader as a service on Linux you can install PM2 using the following steps:

Install PM2 globally on your system with the following command

$ npm install pm2@latest -g

To start, daemonize and monitor Current Cost to emonCMS uploader use this command:

$ pm2 start cc2emon-server.js

Finally setup a startup script to generate an active startup script using this command:

$ pm2 startup