I created a solution…with a pi 4 but it just doesn’t seem to work very well. OCR is very finicky and while I was able to get pytesseract to pull the images off of a webcam, the numbers that get returned are very wrong. It looks like they only allow businesses to pull the powermeter data if I am reading this right: https://www.pge.com/en/save-energy-and-money/energy-saving-programs/smartmeter.html

My rate has increased 6 times this year, so power is very expensive here: 50c per KWH…on the lowest consumption rate. I need to figure out how to cut back or get solar panels. But I want to see in near real time how much energy we are using.

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    the easyocr version somewhat works…but still having issues when its actually outside. Thought I would ask if anyone has figured out this issue before. Ill keep hacking away at it, but thought I would ask if the API is viable.