Power monitoring and logging using the Raspberry Pi

myPower is a simple monitoring and logging program for the Raspberry Pi. It collects live power usage data from the LeChacal RPICT8 current HAT and CT Sensors. myPower logs the data to daily files calculating each day's KiloWatt Hour Usage. [http://lechacal.com/wiki/index.php?title=RPICT8_Version_5]

This is my reworked version of Bill Hanken's original. I needed more than eight current sensors, so I had to reconfigure the software to work with a daughter RPICT8 board.

myPower Remote App -> https://github.com/mwieder/myPower-Remote see the original here myPower Remote App -> https://github.com/km6wye/myPower-Remote

When the "myPower Remote" app connects to myPower via Wifi the data can be viewed in a user friendly format with a

• line graph
• pie chart
• Monthly KiloWatt Hour Usage
• Yearly KiloWatt Hour Usage
• Lifetime KiloWatt Hour Usage https://github.com/km6wye/myPower-Remote

INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS

--REQUIRES the LeChacal RPICT8 HAT on a Raspberry Pi-- --and optionally the LeChacal RPICT8 HAT on a Raspberry Pi--

The Raspberry Pi OS must be configured first [http://lechacal.com/wiki/index.php?title=Howto_setup_Raspbian_for_serial_read]

After that's working you're ready to configure the RPICT HATs.

1. Complete setup of the LeChacal RPICT8 HAT as per the instructions on their Wiki - [http://lechacal.com/wiki/index.php?title=RPICT8_Version_5]. My rpict.conf file is in this archive.

2. Download and Unzip myPower-main.zip (this project) to preferred Folder (Usually /home/pi/mypower)

3. run the myPower executable

4. Log files are CSV type and will be saved into /home/pi/mypower/log

The myPower program was created using LiveCode community version 7.0.4 windows -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/12pmye5RoCY0KfHj_ayjftTeS7RpJrc0Y/view?usp=sharing Raspberry Pi -> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WnDLACdyEc7aueDhE_xX7on-HjK1LEuw/view?usp=sharing