Home Energy Monitor Kit Initial Configuration

In order for the software on the Raspberry Pi to have access to the current readings for your coach, you must configure the CircuitSetup Split Single Phase Real Time Whole House Energy Monitor Kit to connect to your existing WiFi and provide it with the Raspberry Pi's IP address and MQTT topic. If that sounds like Greek, no worries, we'll give you step by step instructions.

First Setup

On first boot, ESP should broadcast a WiFI network called emonESP_XXX. Connect to this WiFi network and the system should forward you to the log-in page. If this does not happen navigate to http://192.168.4.1

Note: If connecting from an mobile device, you may be asked if you want to stay connected since the network does not have internet access. Ensure you opt to stay connected, otherwise the rest of the config will not be possible.

Section 1. WiFi Connection

1. Select your WiFi network from list of available networks
2. Enter WiFi Passkey then click Connect
   
3. emonESP should now connect to local wifi network and return local IP address.
4. Browse to local IP address by clicking the hyperlink (assuming your computer is on the same WiFi network) On future boots EmonESP will automatically connect to this network.

Note: on some networks it's possible to browse to the EmonESP using hostname http://emonesp or on windows http://emonesp.local

If re-connection fails (e.g. network cannot be found) the EmonESP will automatically revert back to WiFi AP mode after a short while to allow a new network to be re-configued if required. Re-connection to existing network will be attempted every 5min.

Section 3. MQTT

1. Enter Raspberry Pi IP address in the MQTT Server field.
2. In the MQTT Base-topic*: field, enter powermon
   
3. Click Connect or Save button
4. After a few seconds Connected: No should change to Connected: Yes if connection is successful. Re-connection will be attempted every 10s.

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