Spent yesterday working on the Energy Monitoring service that RenSMART will offer and Powis-Hughes office. I have been looking at the Sheeva Plug for a while now as a possible data logger. On Wednesday I received one. It looks pretty unassuming, which is what you want for a box that is to be tucked away and forgotten about.
I spent hours trying to get Java installed and running and the Data Logger software working. Finally succeeded only to find that the Current Cost smart meter interface does not have a working driver for Ubuntu (or Windows XP for that matter) so the working day ended on a rather disappointing note.
Came home and built Lego with Alex and Theo for a bit. We are building a space station. If only the real world was as easy as Lego :-).
Today I'm back on the RenSMART web site, improving the financial model for Wind and Solar PV. The task is to try and get it running smoothly enough to offer multiple bespoke financial projections to RenSMART visitors for comparison and a number of predefined scenarios to get them up and running quickly. Hopefully, visitors will want to save their information, for which they will require to become members.
(Why Linux Zoo as a Title. Sheeva runs Ubuntu Linux. Each version is named after a different animal. I tried quite a few versions to get the Sheeva working)
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