[davidascher]

“Right now it pulls data into ElasticSearch for charting with Grafana”

You list me at ElasticSearch. Actually, you skipped over how you get the data to play with in the first place.  I cannot tell if you’re getting it locally (directly from the devices on the LAN or from Emporia’s cloud server or fROM some  Amazon service that gets it from Emporia’s server.  Can you back up and clarify?

 

 

[davidascher]

This is exactly the kind of thing that is going to require you to develop a graphical tool for implementing this kind of thing and thousands of other variations.  There are already a bunch of open source and/or cheap tools out there that do these things. Make it easy to connect your devices to them and focus on other efforts.

Looking at the things “not yet implemented” in Emporia vue, it looks pretty clear that all these API and integration things are way down your priority list and will never get done.  I would suggest that most of those not yet implemented features will turn out to be too complex for to implement across all the variations in just how power companies bill for energy.  That will leave you in a pickle with nice sounding high concept consumer oriented features undone and a couple of years wasted and the frustration from the hobbyist community over your failure to implement an API or integrate with tools that have been out there for a while and allow them to do “anything” in terms of control, data collection, and analysis forcing them to move to other providers.  Great opportunity wasted.

[davidascher]

You should be able to outsource the development of the API.  An API is key to expanding beyond the capabilities of the vue app.  You would see your devices connected to all kinds of much more flexible and more mature monitoring and control systems so you don’t have to re-invent all those wheels.

You would also get all the ‘one off’ “special requirements” folks off your back. Why would you want to drag your feet on developing an API unless you want to be a little guy tied to Google and Amazon?

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