21 thoughts on “Exciting times face Current Cost and their one million users, as Google announce Current Cost as their latest featured device partner.”

1. Tom Atanasow May 25, 2010 at 9:24 am

   Awesome!!
   have just ordered the product. look forward to installing it and seeing the cost savings live!
   Yay!
2. Ian Mitchell June 6, 2010 at 12:21 pm

   I see you now have a “bridge” device which is in stock but allow 42 days for delivery (confused).
   Question, will this work with the new ENVI R out later this year or should I wait?

   Also on the ENVI R subject how does the “Meter Reader” work and will it handle a LCD KWhr Meter and a analogue dial gas meter?
3. Elliot West June 17, 2010 at 5:43 pm

   Will the Google Powermeter / CurrentCost bridge solution support multiple meters – when using Economy 7 for example?
4. Shaun June 21, 2010 at 11:07 am

   Mines working great – thanks!
   (Vista 64, Envi)
   For mate, is there a Mac version of connector software?
5. Derek Kennedy July 4, 2010 at 8:14 am

   I’m a bit concerned that this solution might require me to keep a PC running all day and night. Is this the case? If so, it’s hardly a good way to help save electricity.

   Perhaps I just need to fire up ‘the Bridge’ software once in a while (when my PC happens to be running)?

   Can anybody advise?

   Thanks,
   Derek.
6. Chris Dalby July 5, 2010 at 9:34 am

   Hi Elliot – the first bridge device supports one Current Cost monitor and initially sends the main appliance reading to our broker on the internet.
7. Chris Dalby July 5, 2010 at 9:46 am

   Hi Derek
   There is a history upload function on the Current Cost Software, so it is not necessary to keep a PC running for the software.

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10. Steve Harbauer August 13, 2010 at 5:13 pm

    Where can we buy the dev board – I have been on this blog, actually shared by Martin Dix and want to buy a few – are they on Ebay or perhaps from your webstore?

    Thanks!
11. David August 20, 2010 at 10:20 am

    I’ve been trying to get the history data off my CC128, but if it’s being transferred via cable, it’s not visible anywhere. Having a link to an explanation of how to retrieve it would help!
12. Ken Hughes October 1, 2010 at 11:21 pm

    Thought you folks might like to see this CurrentCost software project on Microsoft’s MSDN site…

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/coding4fun/archive/2010/09/27/10068304.aspx

    Regards .. Ken
13. Thomas E December 19, 2010 at 3:51 pm

    I wrote a alternative server software to store the data from the current cost devices and display them in a web frontend.

    The project page with a working demo you can find here:
    http://code.google.com/p/measureit/

    Thanks for any feedback
14. Jaydee March 31, 2011 at 9:30 am

    I’m hoping to use my Current Cost EnviR to monitor my new Solar PV Panel installation that was installed yesterday. Just waiting for the “Multi Channel Bridge” to be introduced so that I can have 24/7 monitoring without having my PC on.
15. Matt Daniels May 3, 2011 at 4:33 pm

    Hi Ken – your MSDN article is not dissimilar to how our Energy Station .net app works. Your XML parsing needs a few tweaks though to cope with some of the little gotchas (eg. the US Envi’s have temperature in a different tag – tmprf) and you need to watch out for localisation issues when parsing decimal numbers – just a couple of things that have caught us out in the past!
16. Liliane Loi May 22, 2011 at 11:41 pm

    Hi, when are you guys going to make software for the Mac? I currently have no PC at home and have no plans to buy one. It isn’t really nice to be left out, the Mac is the second most used commercial platform and growing, I feel quite bad that I can’t use my energy monitor fully since there’s no application for the Mac.
17. Alan June 25, 2011 at 7:00 am

    Well, the Google PowerMeter partnership hasnt lasted long. As someone who bought a bridge, I’m very disappointed to see the functionality disappearing. One of the big advantages of GPM over the CC console was the ability to compare historical usage. Any plans to partner with anyone else, or upgrade the functionality of your own site?
18. Chris July 1, 2011 at 5:25 am

    Google PowerMeter is now shutting down in September -

    So what’s the alternative?
19. Pierre MULIN November 26, 2011 at 10:08 am

    Hi Chris,

    Could you please detail the history fonction you mention in your post to Derek July 5th 2010 as this is what i am unsuccessfully looking for.

    Thanks in advance for your help,
    Best regards,
    Pierre Mulin
20. Fernando Gurgel January 29, 2012 at 1:06 am

    Hello

    I am happy with my EnviR bought via Amazon via PowerSave. However I would really like to have the connection to my computer for data analysis. I tried Enio but it did not work. I installed C2 terminal and is working OK.

    Please advise.

    Thanks
21. Nyk September 11, 2012 at 6:22 am

    Tom Atanasow (above). Where did you buy it? I believe it’s a free program (please correct me if I’m wrong)