Alternative Tweet-A-Watt logging software...

[wkoperwhats]

I know that Limor has put a link to this up on the Tweet-A-Watt downloads page (thanks!), but I just wanted to mention it here as well...

I recently released a shareware program called "EnergyLogger", a simple native GUI based, cross-platform application designed to take the place of the Python scripts developed for the original Tweet-A-Watt project.

The program adds a few features missing from the Wattcher software, including:

• Energy cost estimates (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and annually)
• Strip chart display of Amps/Volts and Watts
• Kill-A-Watt calibration based on a three step process
• Alarms when load remains outside upper or lower limits for a user specified amount of time
• Tweeting alarms in addition to tweeting daily usage statistics

Rather than logging data to the Google App Engine (GAE), EnergyLogger posts readings to a Google Doc spreadsheet for further analysis.

For more info: http://www.miloslick.com/EnergyLogger.html

Obligatory screenshot:


The cost is only $10 US and includes free updates to all 1.x versions and online support. Give it a try. I'd really like to hear your feedback.

Thanks.

Bill K

[Tobrew]

I bought this software and it's easy to use and works great. If you don't want to mess with all the Python stuff and you are a PC user then this is the way to go. It also runs down in your system tray which is great. When I was using Python it kept randomly closing my program window during tweets. This software also has graphing, google, and tweets built in. It was a no brainer for me. Give it a try.

[adafruit]

thanks for the review!

[richms]

Does it have a service part as well or just all run as an application, so stops when you log off?

Looks to be a nice front end, I would like to see something thats in the tray on all computers at home, all talking to one service with one xbee reciveing all of the tweetawatts. Possibly moving that into the router like limor did. Sadly my windows programming stopped with delphi 3 back in 1990something so I am _way_ out of date with what is possible now.

[wkoperwhats]

Just a quick message to let you all know that as of version 1.2 we have decided to release EnergyLogger as free for non-commercial use. I am currently hard at work on the next release of the software which will incorporate Pachube and direct Google PowerMeter support in addition to many other new features.

Thanks for everyone's support and kind words over the past year.

-bill koperwhats

MiloSlick Scientifichttp://www.miloslick.com

[wkoperwhats]

We are happy to announce the availability of EnergyLogger 2.0, a major update to our popular free utility designed to record data from the Tweet-A-Watt.



Version 2.0 brings many new features and improvements. Here are just a few:

* An new and improved user interface
* Display instantaneous power, energy consumption, cost and CO2
production.
* Measure and predict your electric costs and carbon footprint.
* Display an interactive graph of the recent minute, hour, day, week,
month or year for any of the above units.
* Upload real-time data to a Pachube feed.
* Upload real-time data to Google PowerMeter.
* Added the option to run in "Demo Mode", which can be used to generate
fictitious data for evaluation purposes.

EnergyLogger is distributed as free for non-commercial use. If you are interested in incorporating EnergyLogger into a commercial product, or would like to use it in a commercial setting, please contact us to discuss a licensing agreement.

Download and give this new version a try and please send us your feedback.

http://www.miloslick.com/Download.html

William Koperwhats
MiloSlick Scientific

[Kiken]

Would be nice to se this released as an open source software, any plans for it?