Saturday 26 February 2022

New Toy

I just received this from the good folk at PowerPal:

This is a cool device that basically should give me real-time API-based access to the power usage of my house. The next logical step for me is to then bundle it up into my openHAB setup. I'll probably begin with just using the HTTP binding to get what I need, and maybe (and it's a BIG maybe) turn it into a genuine binding at some point in the future. My experience trying to get the Broadlink binding merged into the openHAB addons codebase has turned me off that process a little...