[OSX-Users] Re: anyone use "alertme energy" power meter?

[Nick Gibbins]

Looking through their website, I'm more than a little underwhelmed. They're cagey about the protocols they're using (specifically, the Zigbee profile - they're not using the standard home automation profile), and the ongoing running costs of GBP36pa make it significantly less attractive from a saving money perspective.

What rankles most is that you need to connect to *their* website to get your usage data; you can't talk to your hub directly. Not good design.

Nick


On 8 Jan 2010, at 12:12, Terry Payne wrote:

> Les,
> 	not yet, but I've been reading around, and it *looks* good.  There is a Which article which seams to like it, and the recent Guardian article seamed impressed.  If you hear more, or if anyone else tries it, then I'd like to know more...
> 
> ... have you heard about the 10:10 initiative???
> 
> 	Terry
> 
> On 8 Jan 2010, at 11:55, Leslie Carr wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone have any experience of the "AlertMe Energy" remote power meter that interfaces with Google's "powerMeter" software?
>> 
>> http://alertme.com/products/alertme-energy/
>> --
>> Les
> 
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