Jeff, I think I speak for most when I say how inspirational you are, being a first time home buyer, I cannot wait to start deploying my own infrastructure.. this is just additive to that excitement. You're a true credit to the community, I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to break down individual pieces of your home automation setup.. you're such a breath of fresh air comparative to most SLT I've encountered.. the way you notably seek to augment the knowledge base of up and coming technicians.. truly, thank you.
Jeff, your series of videos are amazing! I'm currently in the process of building my first home and I'm doing the electrical and plumbing together with my father. Some things are different here in Greece but I took so many ideas already from your videos. Every morning in the last few days I wake up, pour some coffee and I start my day by watching your videos.
Awesome. I have been looking at the Emporia power monitor for my breaker box that's similar. Except it's not open source and you're locked to their software. You changed my mind and now I want the IoTaWatt. I already use Grafana with Prometheus for server and container monitoring. This would be super! Thank you for the demonstration 🙏🏽
i love these videos, looking forward to the one about power factor, apparent power vs real power - also it was pretty interesting to see the 24hr graph for ACs where you can see how its' cycling which I presume is to keep the room at a specific temp
Interesting stuff. I've just moved my small homelab(Puget systems dual Zeon tower, and HP DL360p gen 8) out to the garage where we have our offgrid 3.6 kW/10kW BBank system we use to charge our Lightning, also running a 12k Btu mini-split. I'm just using Solar Assistant to monitor usage. Definitely took a lot of heat, and 300watts of use, out of my home office. It would get pretty toasty during long conference calls. Sounds like we're in pretty similar technology usage in our roles. Just when it looked like Prometheus/Grafana was heading out the door at work, it's been brought back, so I might build something like this. My lab hosts Cisco CML, and once Ansible Tower, but working more towards streaming telemetry monitoring testing of virtualized digital Twin models. My 981 Cayman is in there right now as well for a jack stand alignment tonight !
Even though I am not the biggest fan on 110V, those breakers are very neat. I hate the breakers we use in europe, so hard to organize wiring and in general they use a lot of space.
You would like the Netherlands for that. Meters have by law an RJ11 telemetry port which you can hook up to. Gives a bunch of good information about consumptions, power, etc. It's called P1 port.
Any reason you chose the IoTaWatt vs the similar Emporia Vue product? The Emporia Vue also has CT clamps for each circuit but also has a nice integrated mobile app. Excellent video by the way. Very clear and easy to understand.
Great video, thank you! One question I have with wireless monitors is how does the wireless signal get through, what is essentially a Faraday cage, when you close the door on the breaker panel?
Yea the SPAN panels are cool, especially for smaller projects where you have just one panel. They do support a multipanel mode, but not really if you have 6-8 panels. I suspect the other major panels like SquareD will eventually have more built in measurement support.
Weird question, but does utilizing a clip-around clamp only measure ambient amperage and wattage? What I'm inferring is that you aren't getting completely accurate data because you're not *directly* connecting with the circuit, but are only measuring the amount of electricity that is being leaked by its ambient electrical field surrounding a circuit. Have you tried this with a directly-connected circuit, and if so, how much of a difference have you noticed? A 3% or % variance between the actual measured vs. the guesstimated measured?
Without getting too far into the electrical theory weeds, this is exactly the same technology used in metering high voltage and high amperage circuits. It’s extremely accurate since the magnetic field (not leaked electricity) is what the devices are measuring to calculate current. The voltage side of the equation comes from the power plug he showed in the lower box. The only thing that would make this substantially more accurate would be measuring voltage on both legs (240v) instead of just whichever one powers that outlet.
See the homelab psu has a steady draw of power, as expected. After having the monitors installed for some time, are there any unexpected high energy use circuits/appliances that you have found?
I meant to mention that... No, it works, which did surprise me a little. I do have an AP in the ceiling somewhat nearby each of the panel locations. It is 2.4Ghz wifi, and that is pretty good at making it through small spaces, drywall, etc. It is also pretty low bandwidth so that makes the overall signal demand less.
Love this channel but if I could suggest one thing: Dont use AI generated images for your video covers, my brain and many others are already trained to skip over these bc they generally imply low quality content
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CTO turned youtuber? yes please, I'll watch everyday.
Jeff, I think I speak for most when I say how inspirational you are, being a first time home buyer, I cannot wait to start deploying my own infrastructure.. this is just additive to that excitement.
You're a true credit to the community, I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to break down individual pieces of your home automation setup.. you're such a breath of fresh air comparative to most SLT I've encountered.. the way you notably seek to augment the knowledge base of up and coming technicians.. truly, thank you.
Really appreciate the knowledge! I will be installing these when I purchase a house. Please continue info dumping anything you like!
Haha call that ACknowledge
I really love how you explain extra things like explaining how the electrical panel itself is setup and works.
This man has the youtube algorithm at his fingertips
Thank you so much for taking the time to explain this! I've always wanted to monitor my power!
Acutally super interesting. I never cared enough to look up how a breakerboard worked. Now I know! Thanks Jeff!
Great videos Jeff, please keep up with good job!
Jeff, your series of videos are amazing! I'm currently in the process of building my first home and I'm doing the electrical and plumbing together with my father. Some things are different here in Greece but I took so many ideas already from your videos. Every morning in the last few days I wake up, pour some coffee and I start my day by watching your videos.
Awesome. I have been looking at the Emporia power monitor for my breaker box that's similar. Except it's not open source and you're locked to their software. You changed my mind and now I want the IoTaWatt. I already use Grafana with Prometheus for server and container monitoring. This would be super! Thank you for the demonstration 🙏🏽
I love these videos! Learning so much!!
This channel is pure gold.
i love these videos, looking forward to the one about power factor, apparent power vs real power - also it was pretty interesting to see the 24hr graph for ACs where you can see how its' cycling which I presume is to keep the room at a specific temp
Great stuff Jeff! I would be curious to see something about your workflow personally and how you extend it with automation...
Need more of these videos have been watching for days
Interesting stuff. I've just moved my small homelab(Puget systems dual Zeon tower, and HP DL360p gen 8) out to the garage where we have our offgrid 3.6 kW/10kW BBank system we use to charge our Lightning, also running a 12k Btu mini-split. I'm just using Solar Assistant to monitor usage. Definitely took a lot of heat, and 300watts of use, out of my home office. It would get pretty toasty during long conference calls. Sounds like we're in pretty similar technology usage in our roles. Just when it looked like Prometheus/Grafana was heading out the door at work, it's been brought back, so I might build something like this. My lab hosts Cisco CML, and once Ansible Tower, but working more towards streaming telemetry monitoring testing of virtualized digital Twin models. My 981 Cayman is in there right now as well for a jack stand alignment tonight !
All these videos are bangers
Even though I am not the biggest fan on 110V, those breakers are very neat. I hate the breakers we use in europe, so hard to organize wiring and in general they use a lot of space.
You would like the Netherlands for that. Meters have by law an RJ11 telemetry port which you can hook up to. Gives a bunch of good information about consumptions, power, etc. It's called P1 port.
Jeff I think we are all waiting for a video on the r32!
Any reason you chose the IoTaWatt vs the similar Emporia Vue product? The Emporia Vue also has CT clamps for each circuit but also has a nice integrated mobile app. Excellent video by the way. Very clear and easy to understand.
I'd love to see a quick video on how you are feeding data to your permanent status displays. What sort of device is behind the scenes?
Probably a Pi running a browser. Grafana runs elsewhere and pulls data from influx etc
TY Jeff!
Great video, thank you! One question I have with wireless monitors is how does the wireless signal get through, what is essentially a Faraday cage, when you close the door on the breaker panel?
Worth mentioning newer smart panels like Span that integrate circuit monitoring.
Yea the SPAN panels are cool, especially for smaller projects where you have just one panel. They do support a multipanel mode, but not really if you have 6-8 panels. I suspect the other major panels like SquareD will eventually have more built in measurement support.
Love it. Cant afford it, but i love the idea! 😅
Where do you buy the IoTawatt? I couldn’t find it in Amazon or eBay. Also how much it costs? Will be great if you share a link where to buy them
stuff.iotawatt.com/product/iotawatt-120v-kit/?v=7516fd43adaa
I'll add a link to the description. Thanks for mentioning that.
@@jeffsponaugle6339 thanks!
Weird question, but does utilizing a clip-around clamp only measure ambient amperage and wattage? What I'm inferring is that you aren't getting completely accurate data because you're not *directly* connecting with the circuit, but are only measuring the amount of electricity that is being leaked by its ambient electrical field surrounding a circuit. Have you tried this with a directly-connected circuit, and if so, how much of a difference have you noticed? A 3% or % variance between the actual measured vs. the guesstimated measured?
Without getting too far into the electrical theory weeds, this is exactly the same technology used in metering high voltage and high amperage circuits. It’s extremely accurate since the magnetic field (not leaked electricity) is what the devices are measuring to calculate current. The voltage side of the equation comes from the power plug he showed in the lower box. The only thing that would make this substantially more accurate would be measuring voltage on both legs (240v) instead of just whichever one powers that outlet.
See the homelab psu has a steady draw of power, as expected. After having the monitors installed for some time, are there any unexpected high energy use circuits/appliances that you have found?
So you don't need to strip the circuit wires? They just clip on the outside? How does this magic work?
Correct - there are CT couplers that are small magnets that clip over the wire and measure the EM field generated by the current in the wire.
Jeff, what're you looking forward to in the future of technology? Do you use AI as a tool for your work at all?
Hey Jeff, can you normalize your audio levels to 0db inside of your editing software? the levels seem to be a little low at times (:
Yea, it was low, but then clipping too on another one. I'll work to get it closer to 0 all of the time!
Hey Jeff, r u running a neutral from your 240v runs? It's required here in Australia where we run 240v everywhere.
Is there any issue with the WiFi connection when enclosing that device inside a metal box?
I meant to mention that... No, it works, which did surprise me a little. I do have an AP in the ceiling somewhat nearby each of the panel locations. It is 2.4Ghz wifi, and that is pretty good at making it through small spaces, drywall, etc. It is also pretty low bandwidth so that makes the overall signal demand less.
what is cost for your home lab - how much have you spent in putting your homelab
Jeff did you just say 10 electrical panels?
Eye-oat-a-watt.
Good god man.
Doh!
What does your main power panel and transfer switch look like?
I'm going to do a video about the power system overall, as there are a few interesting things in that system.
Love this channel but if I could suggest one thing: Dont use AI generated images for your video covers, my brain and many others are already trained to skip over these bc they generally imply low quality content
Ah interesting. Good feedback.
For basic home lab ZigBee energy monitors are very inexpensive.
😂 Did you just say 10 panels in your house?