[Swansea Hackspace] Zigbee and Raspberry Pi

[Gerrit Niezen]

Hi Richard,

I doubt you'll be able to successfully get data from your smart meter, as it's usually encrypted. (What, companies not allowing you access to your own data? It happens more often than you think.) Best place to look for more info would be the OpenEnergyMonitor folks up in Bangor - see the thread on their forum here: https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/smart-meters/291 <https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/smart-meters/291> . If you're into home automation/monitoring I'd definitely recommend their gear - open-source hardware designed in Wales and also made in the UK.

In 2012 I backed a Kickstarter project for a Raspberry Pi based wireless gateway called EVE Alpha (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ciseco/eve-alpha-raspberry-pi-wireless-development-hardwa <https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ciseco/eve-alpha-raspberry-pi-wireless-development-hardwa>). You're welcome to borrow mine - the board plugs into the GPIO adapter of your Raspberry Pi, and then you can plug in an Zigbee node straight into the Xbee socket on the board. 

Cheers,
Gerrit

> On 1 Dec 2016, at 12:38, Richard Morgan <richard.morgan at avocation.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Cheers Tom
> 
> On 1 December 2016 at 12:24, Thomas Lake <tswsl1989 at sucs.org <mailto:tswsl1989 at sucs.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/12/16 12:18, Richard Morgan wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I'm preparing for my next hack-project and I was wondering if there's a
> > suitable Zigbee interface for the Raspberry Pi that anyone has come across?
> >
> > Ideally I want to look at using the Raspberry Pi to talk to a Smart
> > Meter-Home Area Network which uses Zigbee.
> 
> You can get adapters for Zigbee that let you connect them to USB or
> Serial (DB9/RS232) ports. They either spit the data out directly or as
> packets, depending on what mode the devices are in - although that's a
> detail for the software side rather than the hardware side.
> 
> Not sure if anyone has made a dedicated Raspberry Pi interface, but you
> could probably adapt the RS232 connection if you can't use the USB one
> for some reason.
> 
> - Tom
> 
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