justifiably/currentcostmon repository overview

⁠A simple CurrentCost monitor running in Docker with MQTT output

This is a Python interface to the CurrentCost energy monitoring devices connected on a serial port. Code borrowed/inspired from other similar ancient hacks.

Can log to several different kinds of file, as well as an MQTT broker.

Default is to print readings on stdout:

docker run -ti --device /dev/ttyUSB0:/dev/ttyUSB0 justifiably/currentcostmon

See full usage with:

docker run justifiably/currentcostmon -h

⁠Pointers

• Current Cost Envi⁠
• Current Cost EnviR⁠

Other projects:

• https://github.com/waveform80/currentcost⁠ much better than mine, without XML parsing overkill
• https://github.com/robrighter/node-currentcost⁠ if JS is your thing (has useful documentation of format)