Reddit mentions of Wemo Insight Smart Plug with Energy Monitoring, WiFi Enabled, Control Your Devices and Manage Energy Costs From Anywhere, Works with Alexa and the Google Assistant

I'm going to copy and paste a reply I made earlier today:

I use a WeMo Insight to remotely control power if my machine locks up.

You will need to set your BIOS to restore power on recovery from AC power loss, then you can do a hard reboot with the WeMo. To me, a one time cost of $45 per rig is worth the 8+ hours of not being able to mine while I'm at work.

There's also IFTTT support, so you can write a script to automatically perform a reset if it becomes unresponsive, or whatever criteria you want trigger it.

You can also get the Mini for a few bucks cheaper, but it doesn't have the power reporting that the Insight has.

I know you're in ethOS, but if you're using Windows, I have my machines set to log in without credentials upon boot, and then launch Afterburner and Claymore by dropping a shortcut to the exe in shell:startup. If something crashes hard and I can't remote into it, just tap a button in the app and you're up and running with five minutes of downtime.

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Alternatively, you can buy a domain and port forward your management port to the computer, but that's fairly insecure.

Got WiFi in the garage? You could plug in one of these

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DBXNYCS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_mWnYAbKP35VYZ

It will track the electricity you use, and you can even set the price and have it export it to email at the end of the month.

http://imgur.com/bwJXcMR

Not OP but I have my Silvia with PID on a smart switch and I love it. I can't remember off the top of my head but I think it handles up to 1400w or 1800w.

I have the Wemo insight.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DBXNYCS/ref=emc_b_5_t

None.

SOJM is home-hosted on this Raspberry Pi stack and is hooked up to this power-measuring smart switch which, unfortunately, has a capacitive switch that's super-sensitive and can be toggled with the lightest brush.

In this case, the switch was brushed "off" without my knowledge (probably by the dog or cat this time), and I brought it online after someone brought it to my attention as soon as I could.

Because the service is home-hosted, any home Internet outages or power outages that outlast the UPS battery-backup that the stack is hooked up to will also cause the service to go down. In other words, while the service is usually up, it's not so crazy that it goes down every once in a while.

I could probably add a service status indicator to future versions of the script so that the cause of the problem when it happens is more visible, but I've been super-busy with programming contracts and haven't really worked on mTurk or any of the tools I've made for it in months.

I used Wemo

Another option is a Wemo plug.

The outlet both monitors electric usage, and can be controlled from your phone or programmed for certain times.

I'm considering buying this plug to try out, it's supposedly rated for 1800 W and has a smartphone app that shows the consumption:

https://www.amazon.com/Insight-Monitoring-Enabled-Anywhere-Assistant/dp/B01DBXNYCS/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524980691&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=wemo+insight

Otherwise, I would just try to charge when empty and use the total capacity of the battery as a rough estimate. So, for a fully empty 2015, it's going to need about 11 kWh. Divide that by .85 to account for about 85% efficiency of the charger, and multiply that by $0.11/kWh and you have $1.42. So you would owe your roommate $1.42 per full charge.

Since you have a gen 2, I believe that uses 14 kWh of battery, so we're at $1.81 per charge. It's really too bad Chevy doesn't report actual kWh charge amounts, would be really useful for this kind of stuff. Apparently the OBD2 readers can pull that out so that might be worth a Google too.

Just playing devil's advocate, but wouldn't that be a pretty boring graph? It should be a flat line during any cooking activity.

>I would even expand on this and chart the power usage of the Anova.

I am not sure the controller on the Anova could directly measure power usage. I guess it could be approximated based on the time the impeller is on (always) and the amount of time the heating element is on.

There are various smart switches out there that could directly measure the power usage. This one is pretty popular, but I have never personally used it.

Wemo Insight Ftw!

Interesting!

It sound reasonable but many things are not designed go be plugged in the "proper way" in that case.

Many plugs with the grounding pin have it on the "Bottom" because if it were to be plugged in the opposite way it would kind of pull itself out of the socket, if you know what a I mean?

Like long, heavy, and odd shaped plugs.

Also, a Weemo (wifi plug) for example, has the on/off button and status light on the wrong side. As in, if the grounding pin was plugged into the top you cannot see if it's powered on of off!

(The example: https://www.amazon.com/Insight-Monitoring-Enabled-Anywhere-Assistant/dp/B01DBXNYCS/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1520200560&sr=8-2-spons&keywords=wemo&psc=1)

depending on how many devices you need to measure simultaneously, either buy a few of these https://www.amazon.com/Insight-Switch-Control-Lights-Appliances/dp/B01DBXNYCS (or something similar, though I know people have good luck with the Wemo's.. I've got a few waiting to be installed myself) or go with an eBay-fancy-UPS that has this feature built-in.

Be sure that your server architecture doesn't already have this information, for example Dell's iDRAC 6 & later (11th gen and later) provide current, average, and peak power usage statistics for the server itself, negating the need to monitor it with an external solution - you can scrape it right from the BMC.

I don't one myself but you can probably find some smart/connected power meters that works with a Google home or Alexa, etc that stores usage data to your app.

Something like this with energy monitoring runs for 35USD https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DBXNYCS