[Swansea Hackspace] Zigbee and Raspberry Pi

[Richard Morgan]

Many thanks Gerrit - big fan of the 'Made in Wales' idea :-)

On 1 December 2016 at 13:35, Gerrit Niezen <gerrit.niezen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 . 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).
> 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> 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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>
> Richard
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