<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>probably base it on this </div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.ladyada.net/make/tweetawatt/">http://www.ladyada.net/make/tweetawatt/</a></span><br><br><br><div>Bill Schwanitz</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div><div><br>On Jan 26, 2013, at 4:53 PM, Peter Kukla <<a href="mailto:fruviad@yahoo.com">fruviad@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div>I'm a new home owner, and I have a sump pump in the basement that I would like to monitor electronically.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">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.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">My objectives are twofold. <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">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<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">2. Setup an early-warning alarm system that would alert me if the sump pump failed to work for some reason.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px;
font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">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.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">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.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px;
font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">-peter</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent;
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