MiHome Plug in Energy Monitor getting info.

[ericmark]

From what I can see the MIHO005 plug in relay and energy meter has three options to be able to read the info.

The PC with a web page, the smart phone with an app, or using Raspberry Pi, the latter it seems may give more information like voltage, frequency etc, with can be used to show things like power factor.

I wonder if any one has actually tried using Raspberry Pi in this way and how well it worked, I tried with a Arduino Uno to build a program however only got as far as making the LED flash on and off. I was useless at programming a PIC although I wrote some complex programs for a PLC. So I really don't want to buy Raspberry Pi and the RF Transceiver board only to find either I have not the skill to program or it is no better than my PC at reading the info.

So anyone used one, and if they did how easy. I did own a ZX spectrum but that was some time ago.

 

[flameport]

A Raspberry Pi is an entire computer on a single board, to use it requires installing an operating system and then either writing or installing whatever program(s) you want to use.
Raspbian is the default operating system, which is based on Debian. It's far more complex than the Arduino, which is just write a bit of code and send it to the device.