Hi,
We recently got a new dishwasher which is integrated into the kitchen.
I.e., there is no visible display or any other feedback on its
progress. However, I like feedback. :)
The thought of hacking the appliance itself is a bit, well, hacky, I
don't want to mess with an appliance that deals with water, fairly
high currents and power, etc., and I'm not that big of a hardware
hacker anyways. So, I thought of buying a wattmeter, make some graphs
to see its normal power usage over time. Perhaps it uses more power
when in the drying phase, and so on. If the wattmeter had ethernet, I
could hook it up to the network (there are many ethernet outlets in
our kitchen anyways), and follow it via a web interface.
So, my main question is whether there exists a fairly cheap watt-meter
with ethernet and some kind of TCP/IP interface?
Other suggestions for solving the problem are very welcome, too.
Thanks
Sune Beck
- posted
13 years ago