[Klug-general] Home Power Monitoring

[Mike Evans]

On 19/09/12 08:46, alex.layfield at sky.com wrote:
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> Anyone know of a distro or software able to grab the serial output, or commands to grab the data&  dump in a .csv?
>

I don't - but I'm about to start experimenting in this area for grabbing 
data from my new kiln controller, which has an RS232 interface.  
Yesterday a USB to RS232 cable arrived so I've not had chance to try 
anything yet and I'm assuming I'll have to write my own program to do 
what I want in detail.

In order to experiment though I've learned that cutecom is a 
communications program a bit like minicom with the crucial difference 
that it supports input and output in hex.  I plan to hook this up to my 
device and send it some of the sequences from the datasheet manually to 
check that i understand the protocol before digging in with C or 
Python.  You could couple it up to your device and grab the output that 
way to see if it makes any sense.

Mike