I've set up a DAILY feed and manually inserted this morning's meter reading.
I've also got a DAILY that tracks gas pulses reported from the emonTH.
I can now manually count the bars on the daily pulse total graph, add it to the latest value of the meter reading feed, and know what my meter should currently be saying (so I can verify that I'm not dropping pulses).
However, I have to remember the date that the meter reading feed was updated (or look it up in the DB, as it will almost always show "inactive"). It's also vital that I take a meter reading late at night after the heating goes off, because my daily pulses don't then need to be split (I can live with this).
Somehow, I'd like to display a "meter reading right now should be..." on the dashboard instead of counting by hand.
Anyone know how to do this?
Re: Using a feed for meter read verification
So if I understand you, you have a fixed data point at a known time(A), and an increasing data feed over time(B)?
Couldn't you export them from emoncms with last known value (A) and for (B) all values from time of (A) to present.
Sum them outside of emoncms and then send it back into emoncms as an input?
You could store the time of (A) as a separate feed when you manually insert (A) to the database.