Z-Wave and POPP outdoor socket

[Sharppis]

Hi,
I have managed to connect POPP socket into my RazBerry and it works as a on/off socket. I made car heating schedule with this combo and it works, but I found that automatically z-wave shows two different Meter Electric "devices" together with socket. In their website it's said that there's built-in electricity meter and z-wave platform seems to understand it. Still even it shows Meter Electric 2-0-50-0 Popp -device, it doesn't collect any data and there has been device attached to socket which is 1700watts and it was on about hour or so. It should collect something, but I can't see it.

Has anyone this same socket http://www.popp.eu/products/actuators/w ... h-outdoor/ There's manual and it has some options, but I'm not really sure how I'm supposed to set any options or should I.

Is there some combo in z-wave platform that I have to configure before I get data?

Any tips are very welcome

[michap]

Hi,

seems to be an interesting "meter"
written is "virtual power meter"

In fact - there will be added the *predefined* consumption - given by a parameter:

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Paramter No. 	20 	Size 	2 	Default 	0
Name 	Energy consumption
Description: 	Specify the consumption of the load in watts, for the calculation of power consumption. Max load 1800 W.
Type 	range   Values 	
0 	         ->   	Disabled
1 - 3500 	  ->   	Watts

So you can set the parameter 20 to 1700 Watts - nd the consumption will be calculated (summarized) when the switch is on.

Really, I never had thought about such a possible "meter" before ...

Michael

[PoltoS]

As @michap noticed, Popp plug indeed have no real meter inside, but provides a very simple option to calculate consumption based just on time the device is On. This is perfectly ok for loads with constant consumtion, but is not for variable consumptions.

Note that the price of the device is smaller than most real metterin plugs, so this is reasonable in some use cases.