esb-smart-meter-importer 0.2.0

A small utility to extract power comsumption data from Ireland's national electrical grid provider.

ESB Smart Meter Importer

A small utility to extract power comsumption data from Ireland's national electrical grid provider.

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Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• License

Installation

pip install esb-smart-meter-importer

Usage

from esb_smart_meter_importer import smart_meter_usage

username = "Your Email Address"
password = "Your Password"

# Your Electricity Meter Number
mprn_number = "100XXXXXXXXXXX"

# If you don't know this, you can use any date *since* the meter was
# installed. Any dates before, and an exception will be thrown.
start_date = "2023-06-01"

# Imports is how much energy you bought from the grid (in kWh)
# Exports is how much energy you sold to the grid (in kWh), but
# presumedly only populated if you have Solar PV panels, etc.
imports, exports = smart_meter_usage(username, password, mprn_number, start_date)

print(imports)

Both imports and exports are dictionaries of datetime -> float, representing your usage in kWh at a 30 minute granularity.

{
    datetime(2023, 11, 10, 17, 0, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc): 0.142,
    datetime(2023, 11, 10, 17, 30, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc): 0.1285
}

ESB collect the data, so this library cannot offer more than a 30 minute granularity. If you want near live data, you can investigate alternate methods of collection, via Shelly EM clamps.

License

esb-smart-meter-importer is distributed under the terms of the MIT license.