Tisham Dhar
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Blynk Energy Monitor

Monitor real power, voltage, current and power factor using the Sparkfun Blynk board and view live graphs in the Blynk App.

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Blynk Energy Monitor

Things used in this project

Hardware components

SparkFun Blynk Board - ESP8266
SparkFun Blynk Board - ESP8266
×1
Energy Monitor Featherwing
×1

Software apps and online services

Blynk
Blynk
Arduino IDE
Arduino IDE
NodeMCU firmware
NodeMCU firmware

Hand tools and fabrication machines

Soldering iron (generic)
Soldering iron (generic)

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Schematics

Energy Monitor Featherwing Eagle Files

These files contain the Eagle CAD design for the Energy Monitor Featherwing. This module is simply attached to the I2C bus available on the Blynk headers with a Grove-Dupont cable.

Code

Blynk Sketch for Energy Monitoring

Clone git repository open with Arduino, enable ESP8266 Arduino support and choose the Sparkfun Thing Dev board as the target platform. Compile and upload as a usual Arduino Sketch.

Credits

Tisham Dhar

Tisham Dhar

13 projects • 59 followers
I am an Electronics Engineer who mostly works with aerial and space based remote sensing projects. I fiddle with home automation and renewable energy projects.

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