Posts that use ESP32-WROVER hub
- · Firmware releasesRBgrid v1.2.1What changed since v1.1.7 — the hub follows market prices, keeps the price it used beside the energy, marks cheap windows, and runs on the ESP32-S3.
- · GuidesYou think the well pump is starting more often than it used toMeter a well pump on its own circuit with a remote ESP32 node - see what it draws, watch a start as it happens, and read its energy per 15-minute period.Tested on firmware v1.1.7
- · GuidesThe water heater is inside a circuit you already measureSee what your water heater alone uses and costs by tariff zone - separated from the shared circuit it hides inside, with a clamp or a remote ESP32 node.Tested on firmware v1.1.7
- · Firmware releasesRBgrid v1.1.7RBgrid v1.1.7 keeps energy and settings through faults that used to lose them, and adds remote metering nodes over ESP-NOW with published firmware.
- · GuidesThe pool pump's nameplate won't tell you what it actually usesA variable-speed pool pump draws a few hundred watts or a few thousand depending on speed - so measure it on its own circuit instead of estimating.Tested on firmware v1.1.7
- · GuidesYou won't know if the radio reaches until you try it where it will livePair a node in ten minutes, before you mount anything - then read the three numbers that tell you whether the link will hold once the load runs.Tested on firmware v1.1.7
- · GuidesThe bill went up and you can't see what the car tookMeter an EV charger on the garage board - with a clamp or a remote ESP32 node - and see what each charge took and what it cost in each tariff zone.Tested on firmware v1.1.7
- · GuidesWhat happens if the firmware update stops halfwayThe image goes to a spare slot and the hub switches only after the whole file passes its checks. A broken upload costs nothing - one careless minute does.Tested on firmware v1.1.6
· GuidesYou switched net metering on, and your costs didn't moveThe hub's net-metering credit is a bank of kilowatt-hours, settled at each month boundary, and it changes no cost figure. Here is what it does instead.Tested on firmware v1.1.6
· GuidesYour three-phase supply is being measured on one phaseA hub counts a three-phase input on L1 alone until you tell it otherwise. One module and one setting give you all three phases, their checks and history.Tested on firmware v1.1.6