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Yes... I did this four years ago for home, and then again for work.ÂYou can get a currentcost device which either clamps onto the incoming live wire, or covers the flashing light on the meter (the latter is more accurate if you have such a meter, but the former I found was good too)That unit is powered by two D-cell batteries and transmits wirelessly to a receiver unit which has a display. That's the consumer part - they cost about Â30 to Â50. If that's all you want to do, fine. If you want to record this on a linux machine, read on.Now, there is a serial wire you can get on ebay that plugs into that receiver and then into a USB socket on your computer. Linux picks this up without any special drivers, and you can simply read data from that device (which comes as a one line packet of various fields which are updated every few seconds, one of which is the watts per channel - it can support several input channels)Below is a perl script I used to strip out the data from the usb/serial adapter into a text file. I have other files that read this and put it into an rrd database so I can draw a pretty graph of the current power. Over time this shows various patterns such as when a kettle goes on, washing machine etc. (I don't have any pic of that as the system's been disabled for a while though).ÂIf you want more help or a copy of those files, let me know.#!/usr/bin/perl -w# 20101009# designed to run constantly in background. captures data from# currentcost and writes to rrd and logfile# Ncked from george by Simon`stty -F /dev/ttyUSB1 57600`;open SERIAL, "<", "/dev/ttyUSB1" or die $!;while (1) {# run foreverwhile ($line = <SERIAL>) {    if ($line =~ m!<tmpr>\s*(-*[\d.]+)</tmpr>.*<ch3><watts>0*(\d+)</watts>!)        {        open (LOGFILE,">/var/www/house/power.log");        $temp = $1;        $power = $2;        #print LOGFILE "Got $power W $temp C \n";        print LOGFILE $power;        close LOGFILE;# print "hit: $temp / $power\n";        last;        }    }  }close(SERIAL);On 17 January 2015 at 07:13, Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:--HiDoes anyone know how to measure energy use through Linux please?ThanksÂRichÂ
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