HAH died

yes i know backups are useful, one question regarding the pv scetch should the quotes be left round the api and user details? and yes all stuff is on an APC UPS (or rather two) did not help.

spent many an hour round neighbours houses replacing adsl routers over the last 2 weeks.

require ('xap')
require('xap.bsc')
require("string")
local io = require("io")
local http = require("socket.http")
local ltn12 = require("ltn12")

module(...,package.seeall)

info={
    version="1.0", description="PVoutput poster"
}

CurrentTemp = 0
Logtime = os.time()
TempCumulativeKwH = 0
CumulativeKwH = 0
CurrentKwH = 0
watts = 0
elapsed = 0
ConvFactor = 0.95
-- Api = "c97e54b0ba3eee819b18d3eb4225ef9f7033b472"  -- put your  PVoutput api key here
-- Feed = "3791"  -- put your PVoutput feed ID here Postinterval = 5  -- The number of minutes between posts to PVoutput url='://pvoutput.org/service/r2/addstatus.jsp?key='
Power = 1


function init()
     local f = xap.Filter()
     f:add("xap-header", "source", "dbzoo.livebox.CurrentCost:ch.1")
     f:add("xap-header","class","xAPBSC.event")
     f:callback(powerlog)
     local f = xap.Filter()
     f:add("xap-header", "source", "dbzoo.livebox.CurrentCost:temp")
     f:add("xap-header","class","xAPBSC.event")
     f:callback(GetTemp)
end



function post(self)
    local ckwh = math.floor(CumulativeKwH *1000 )
         if CumulativeKwH ~= 0 then
        if tonumber(Power) ~= 0 then
    b, c, h = http.request("http" ..url ..Api .. "&sid="..Feed .. "&d=" 
..os.date("%Y%m%d") .. "&t=" ..os.date("%H:%M") .. "&v1=" ..ckwh.. "&v2=" 
..Power .."&v5=" ..CurrentTemp)
        end
         end
end

function powersave(self)
     local file = io.open("/etc/plugboard/CumulativeKwH","r")
         CumulativeKwH = file:read("*all")
         file:close()
    CumulativeKwH = tonumber(CumulativeKwH) + TempCumulativeKwH
    TempCumulativeKwH = 0
    local cmd = string.format("echo '%s'>/etc/plugboard/CumulativeKwH",
CumulativeKwH)
    os.execute(cmd)
    self:reset()
    post()
end

function GetTemp(frame)
    CurrentTemp = frame:getValue("input.state","text")
end


function powerlog(frame)
     local CurrentPeriod = os.difftime(os.time(), Logtime)
     Logtime = os.time()
     local CurrentKwH = Power * CurrentPeriod / 3600000
     TempCumulativeKwH = TempCumulativeKwH + CurrentKwH
     Power = frame:getValue("input.state","text")
     if tonumber(Power) < 45 then
     Power = 0
     elseif tonumber(Power) < 300 then
     Power = tonumber(Power) * 0.5
     else
     Power = tonumber(Power) * ConvFactor
     end
end

function filereset(self)
    local Logtime = os.date("%H")
    if tonumber(Logtime)  > 18 then
    local cmd = string.format("echo 0 >/etc/plugboard/CumulativeKwH")
    os.execute(cmd)
    end
    self:reset()
end

xap.Timer(powersave, Postinterval*60):start()
xap.Timer(filereset, 1800):start()                  -- reset the cumulative 
file after 7 pm. Check the time every half hour