Have had a look but can’t find any hardware/App that can monitor things with.
Anyone any suggestions?!
Thanks

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There are lots of solutions out there, but hard to recommend any without knowing your requirements.
There are plenty of simple off the shelf solutions that simply involve clamping onto the phase, or if you want to get a little more advanced lots of Pi and Arduino projects out there as well that can offer a lot more functionality.
Wow, that's a busy old switchboard!
Will be an interesting time consuming project to replace and bring up to current regs.
Has Sonoff got a SDOC yet?
k1w1k1d:Wow, that's a busy old switchboard!
Will be an interesting time consuming project to replace and bring up to current regs.
Has Sonoff got a SDOC yet?
Here's one that I'm giving serious though about:
https://openenergymonitor.org/
The IotaWatt version has lots of inputs, which may be more useful than the regular emon, depending on what you want to monitor. I don't know about the legal side of things, but since it's only the CT's going in the wiring, I doubt there's much issue.
Genesis is also running a pilot program for their EnergyIQ. Assuming you don't mind being with Genesis, it's actually a good deal ($99 up front for the install, then free 2 years and $10 per month after that).
andrewNZ: The black panels contain asbestos (the inspectors here won't touch them), my understanding is that the brown ones don't.
ETA: this is the stuff that does, it doesn't look like yours.
Its not only the board, a friends house had it mounted over a stud area that was lined with grey fluffy stuff as fireproofing that was also asbestos. That cost them a crapload to get removed and that was before the more stringent changes to the rules.
richms:andrewNZ: The black panels contain asbestos (the inspectors here won't touch them), my understanding is that the brown ones don't.
ETA: this is the stuff that does, it doesn't look like yours.Its not only the board, a friends house had it mounted over a stud area that was lined with grey fluffy stuff as fireproofing that was also asbestos. That cost them a crapload to get removed and that was before the more stringent changes to the rules.
Jase2985:As Steve said it depends on what you want to monitor, i use one of these
it shows me readings every 6 seconds, so its quiet easy to pin down whats using power
Yes i did but i brought it a few years back and unsure if they still sell them
I have mine in the meter box, but it needs it be before any power takeoff so ideally the mainline into the switch box
you can manually input the unit cost etc that you are on.
I think i paid about $120 for it.
Here is an image from the cloud software
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