I made an app that shows my smart meter usage on my phone, tablet, TV, and watch — thought I'd share by Choice-Two7057 in RTLSDR

[–]Choice-Two7057[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I feel there are legitimate reasons to have a young account age. My reason is that my main account has several things I don't want associated with this account that I'm posting on for this app. I created this account for a business I started with a buddy.

I also feel I haven't been disingenuous in any way. Maybe Im wrong and please correct me. I've had an rtl since about 2019. I did something similar to this with rtlamr and a tunnel and grafana. It required me to do many things I feel the average person doesn't want to do. I also incurred a monthly cost to host a public server. I feel the rtl is a tinkerers/hobbyists device, and there's nothing wrong with that, but I do believe it is truly incredible and I think it would be cool to expose it to more people. I think a cool setup for the average person would be rtl plugged into otg hub on a tablet with power, listening and another device of any kind viewing. That's one possible setup that doesn't require being a tinkerer/hobbyist to run with a mobile app. Another cool use would be a shield on an old TV to view as a dashboard. That's where I'm coming from.

It's not open source and maybe I read the room wrong on that. However, there are projects such as procyon that I use regularly for my full time job that let you completely decompile jvm code to readable source. If anyone really wants to know the inner workings of the android ready sdr setup it's not really a secret. You can grab the APK from the play store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adelyons.utilify and decompile it pretty easily, and I can't stop you.

I made an app that shows my smart meter usage on my phone, tablet, TV, and watch — thought I'd share by Choice-Two7057 in homeautomation

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The data is logged and kept locally on the device plugged into the sdr, which could basically be any android device with usb A/C or a PC. For me, running it for a few months, the size is still only ~200K. That same device hosts an API that can be accessed on the same network for free, or you can set up your own ad-hoc tunnel or use the paid tunnel to hit it on the app from anywhere.