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<h4>There are some dependencies here…</h4>
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 <li>I’ll show you how to get up and running with a TED device, however in theory it is not too hard to make any monitoring device work with the solution.</li>
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 <li>First, let’s talk about what the website is looking for in terms of data. Each location you create in your account (once you’ve signed up with CurrentWatchers) can have one or more devices associated with it (actually you can have 0 devices as well, but that is not too fun, because you can’t do much with no devices). Each device you create on the CurrentWatchers system will be provided with a very long unique Globally Unique ID. This ID is used to identify measurements sent from the device to the CurrentWatchers website.</li>
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 <li>The mechanism we use for reporting is just a simple HTTP Post. The data we’re looking for is the average volts, kW, and cost (in dollars) for the preceding 1 minute period. It’s assumed software running in your home will post this information every minute or so to the CurrentWatchers website.</li>
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 <li>TED devices write their usage information to a sqlite3 database on a Windows machine at the user’s home. That is, if you have purchased the (optional) Footprints tracking software. 
The software we’ll supply simply reads the most recent posting in the TED DB once per minute and does an HTTP Post to the Current Watcher site, along with the Globally Unique ID. CurrentWatchers records this data in its own server.</li>
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 <li>That’s really all there is to it. If for some reason, your home PC is not able to send along regular energy recordings, there will be some gaps in the data we’ve received, but that usually will not be a cause for alarm. We create averages of the recordings we do receive, and it all averages out. 
 
You can now download the CurrentWatchers Windows Service software installer here: 
<a href="http://www.currentwatchers.com/setup.exe">http://www.currentwatchers.com/setup.exe</a> 
 
Reminders: 
 
You should set up a location in on CurrentWatchers.com. You do this by logging into the site and clicking on the ‘Administer Locations & Devices’ tab on the main page. This tab only appears when you are logged in… There’s a link to create a new location. 
 
Once you have a new location, please click ‘Create new device’ in your location. Once you’ve done so, you can click on the ‘Show’ link and you’ll see the GUID for the device. Copy the GUID (Ctrl C)… 
 
Please change the file extension of the CurrentWatcher Service installer to .exe from .ext. The mail filter prohibits me from sending zips with executables in them. Then run the installer. You’ll need to know: 
 
1.) Your Current Watcher Username 
2.) Your Current Watcher Password 
3.) The GUID you copied above 
4.) The location of your TED.db database.</li>
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