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I used IoTaWatt devices, which can be installed in panels. It is a great solution for by circuit monitoring, and has direct influxdb integration so you can use Grafana.

Per plug monitoring is cool however for getting specific devices on a circuit.

(Short video about the setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tcbJCvuJG8)

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Wow it’s a small world. I just discovered your channel recently and love the content. Probably watched the home lab video like 10 times. I have a historic building with 3 vacation rentals that I’m in the process of adding some intelligence and monitoring to, including a raspberry pi kiosk based on one of your videos. Thanks for making them!

That is cool! Indeed there is a good cross section of home automation , software development, power monitoring, and hacker news.

I just did a new video on building a 68030 computer that I suspect will have a much smaller audience!

I gotta chime in also. I just learned about your channel literally today when a buddy DM'd me a link on your YouTube homelab tour. We have pretty similar interests. I also have an IOTAWATT and I love it. My only grip is I wish they had the ability to log more channels with the same unit. ie Approximately 30 channels.

Sweet! Yea, I have several panels that have 2 of them for that reason. I have debated making a larger one since the code is open source. It would be great to have one that has more ports, and perhaps the ports combined into less cables.

I agree. I think a good way to solve this problem would be to move the ADC + circuitry to the induction clamp itself; then daisy chain the units together via some bus protocol. It's would allow customers to go from 0-X in terms of logged channels. As well as reduce the size of the sending unit considerably.

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