[colug-432] Monitoring an analog, external device's power usage?

[Bill Schwanitz]

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Bill Schwanitz

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein.

On Jan 26, 2013, at 4:53 PM, Peter Kukla <fruviad at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm a new home owner, and I have a sump pump in the basement that I would like to monitor electronically.
> 
> Best case scenario...my complete solution provides me with electronic log data in a way that I can access any time via a network connection.
> 
> My objectives are twofold.  
> 
> 1.  Monitor the amount of water pumped from the basement to get a "baseline" value that I can compare against when trying to improve the property's drainage
> 2.  Setup an early-warning alarm system that would alert me if the sump pump failed to work for some reason.
> 
> The sump pump currently plugs into a power outlet.  The only way I can see to monitor this sump pump is to monitor the power usage.
> 
> Does anyone out there have any Linux-friendly solutions for monitoring power use by an analog external device?  If I could grab that information, then I could use some Linux-based device to process the information and dump it to the network.  I'm just not sure how to go about monitoring the power usage of the sump pump.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
> 
> 
> -peter
> 
> 
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