Nice idea - request

[bakman2]

I like this idea a lot, thanks for developing it!

It would make it more flexible if you could input something like:

{"name":"Livingroom lights", "watt":350}

use the key as name and start/stop based on the name/value So you can use one input/output node for multiple devices.

Also, devices that never turn off will never get a stop event. Would be nice if there was way to output the energy every x second/minutes. - This could be solved by sending node.status to an additional output ? I can imagine this node being used for graphs/dashboards, realtime overview would be awesome.

[xoseperez]

I see these are actually two different issues:

• being able to use just one node to monitor multiple devices
• fixing the problem when the device stops reporting data while running

I'm merging soon a PR that reports energy on every input, still it won't work if the device stops sending data.

[swilson86]

Xose... great work on this new version. I am really anxious for your PR containing "watts" passthrough.

[xoseperez]

Tracking multiple appliances with a single node might be tidier, still it will require solving some UX issues, like how do you update the node status?