Sense Energy Monitor to PVOutput?

UkiwiS · August 19, 2018, 3:26am

My Rainforest Eagle-200 has been very unreliable with lots of missed readings lately. This is the 2nd unit I’ve had and it just seems to be getting worse. This one is only 9 months old.

I purchased a Sense Energy Monitor for another property that I own and so far it’s been pretty good. Does anyone know if it is possible to grab data from that and post it to PVOutput?
https://sense.com/

nushrike · August 20, 2018, 5:41am

I use a derivation of this ported to Qt/C++ and post to my PVoutput data: https://github.com/scottbonline/sense

Sense’s historical data is at least 15 minutes delayed and heavily averaged.

I’m really disappointed with Eagle-200 lately as the Cloud data has been offline for ~4 days in a row now. Then 4 days before that a 2 day outage. Then 2 days before that a 2 day outage. Today, I just switched my data uploading to the Eagle’s local-api and the data is otherwise reading fine off the meter …

UkiwiS · August 28, 2018, 7:14pm

I opened a ticket with Rainforest for the zero readings that pop up several times a day. They blame wifi drops but have apparently changed a setting…

"I have changed the upload configuration for PVOuput to save packets if the EAGLE loses connection and then upload them later. "

nushrike · August 29, 2018, 5:51pm

FYI, after 9 days straight of inconsistent to non-existent Cloud uploads, I queried CS.

Many more days later, they came back that my Eagle was DNS-timing out trying to access Cloud – I’d previously power-cycled the Eagle to resolve.

Now, I changed the DNS settings on my router from CloudFlare back to my ISP’s and the Eagle started uploading again. I changed DNS back to CloudFlare and could not get the problem to repeat.

UkiwiS · August 30, 2018, 8:29pm

The setting change they made didn’t resolve anything so they’re now doing some intensive logging to get to the bottom of the issue I’m seeing.

webbinaros · April 4, 2020, 12:27am

In case anyone else still wants this, I have a simple script to do it. You can ignore the large project as this script is standalone.

github.com

eddiewebb/sense-show/blob/master/pvoutput.py

import os
import datetime
import requests
from dotenv import load_dotenv
import sense_energy
import json

def main():
	load_dotenv()
	#authenticate once
	if os.getenv("PVOUTPUT_KEY"):
		trend = SenseTrend()
		pv = PvOutput()
		pv.postLive(trend.consumption())
		pv.postLive(trend.generation())
	else:
		print("To send stats to pvoutput.org, add key and id as described in readme.")


class PvOutput():

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I have raspberrypi showing LEDs and a cron runs this every 5 minutes.

webbinaros · April 4, 2020, 12:29am

I also wrote a script to backload missing sense data, if anyone wants that let me know.