Fwd: [ubuntu-za] Owl + USB Electricity Monitor and Ubuntu

[Marius Kruger]

http://www.electricity-monitor.com/owl-c-30.html
Owl are the leading manufacturer of wireless electricity monitors for
the UK market.

http://www.electricity-monitor.com/owl-micro-cm130-wireless-energy-monitor-p-86.html
The Owl Micro CM130 is an entry-level wireless energy monitor,
designed to display the most critical electricity monitoring
information in a compact and easy to use unit at an affordable price.

http://www.electricity-monitor.com/owl-cm120-usb-connect-p-93.html
The new Owl USB Connect CM120 receiver turns your Windows PC into a
sophisticated real-time electricity monitoring system.

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From: Paul Young <pau...@gmail.com>
Date: 17 August 2011 21:52
Subject: [ubuntu-za] Owl + USB Electricity Monitor and Ubuntu
To: ubun...@lists.ubuntu.com

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So my new project is to try and read data from my Owl + USB
Electricity Monitor. Has anyone tried to do this sort of thing yet?

Regards
Paul

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[Tobie - Die Toob]

Hi,

I am not a big fan of the older OWL. It seems the newer ones have more functionality.

I am not sure what the OWL costs, but you can build your own monitor for under R500.

See our thread over at - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/zarduino/jqY0IZHMwFY

Myself and Schalk have done this. We are both logging our power use, just like the OWL but using the arduino platform, and the satisfaction that we did it ourselves

Here is a very tragic video of mine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_7BVX8vwN0

We will soon be organising an energy logger build over at H4H-HQ - maybe your contact will be interested?

Tobie

[Marius Kruger]

On 18 August 2011 08:59, Tobie - Die Toob <tobie....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am not a big fan of the older OWL. It seems the newer ones have more
> functionality.

I knew you guys are playing with this sort of thing with the arduino,
so I thought maybe you've seen this.

> I am not sure what the OWL costs,

about £18.39 + shipping on amazonuk, maybe you get them locally for cheaper

but you can build your own monitor for
> under R500.

...

> and the satisfaction that we
> did it ourselves

of coarse, but its a lot more effort :)

> Here is a very tragic video of mine
> - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_7BVX8vwN0

awesome video!

> We will soon be organising an energy logger build over at H4H-HQ - maybe
> your contact will be interested?

yeah, I'll invite him
(I don't know him at all, just saw his message on the ubuntu-za list,
and wondered if any of you tried it)

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