Power sensor based on RPICT3T1 for home-assistant

RPICT3T1 is a shield for raspberry pi that uses current transformers to measure the electrical power carrier by a wire. Its sold on lechacal.com

The product

• Raspberry pi 2
• RPICT3T1_v2.4 (bought on lechacal.com)
• 3 current transformers (sct-013-000)

Environment installation on RPI

Install pip for python3

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

Install serial (I did not manage to make it work when installing it using pip)

sudo apt-get install python3-serial

Clone the current project

git clone https://github.com/cdtx/rpict3t1_mqtt

Configuration

The main script expects to read a file named config.ini in the same folder, containing the following keys :

[MQTT]
# url or ip to the mqtt broker
HOST = 
# port to connect to the mqtt broker
PORT =
# mqtt broker username/password
USERNAME =
PASSWORD =

Links

• Shield home page
• Shield configuration