Smart* Software Tools
Available here are Linux-based software tools to enable easy interaction with commodity sensing equipment. These tools have been developed for use in the Smart* project. All questions regarding these tools should be directed to Sean Barker.
Insteon Software Tools
Many of our sensors are Insteon powerline-based devices. The Insteon energy meter is the iMeter Solo, which does not ship with any easily scriptable software. Our plmtools-imeter software (a fork of the plmtools project) provides one-line querying capabilities of iMeter Solos (via a USB connection to an Insteon PLM).
- plmtools-imeter
- Example usage:
$ insteon meter my-lamp-imeter - Example output:
17 - Readme: README
- Download: plmtools-imeter-0.1.1.tar.gz (17 KB)
- Example usage:
Z-Wave Software Tools
Our deployment also includes Z-Wave devices, which communicate wirelessly at higher bandwidths than Insteon, but are more complicated to interact with using OpenZWave. Our Z-Wave reader script simplifies polling one or more Aeon Labs Smart Energy Switches in round-robin fashion at any specified interval.
- zwmeter
- Example usage:
$ zwmeter /dev/ttyUSB0 1000 - Example output:
meter1 24 ... | ... meter2 37 ... | ... meter1 24 ... - Readme: README
- Download: zwmeter-0.1.tar.gz (19 KB)
- Example usage: