Atmos Energy is coming to install a wireless meter reader on my gas meter. They will only know whether there is a tower close enough for the meter reader to work once installed. If there is, they will leave it enabled, if not, they will disable it and leave it there as it will be ready for when the tower is eventually deployed.
Has anyone looked into how pulling gas usage from the meter itself or atmosenergy.com ?
I just saw your post and was wondering if you got anywhere with monitoring your Atmos usage?
For anyone else who may be wondering, I contacted Atmos directly to ask if they offered any type of API service. The answer is ‘yes,’ but only in certain areas, in conjunction with the rollout of the new wirelessly read meters - WRMs I think he called them.
Basically, you have to contact them to find out if you live in an area where the WRMs have been deployed (I do not).
If you know that you have an Atmos meter that is being read wirelessly, chances are you have an API at your disposal…
@DBB1 I don’t live in an area where the WRM meters have been deployed but they came out to install it and confirmed it had signal. They said it would be a few months before I saw the more granular data transmitted by the meter… but nothing new has appeared on my account yet.
@Valdorama I found no mention of an API on their site but am not surprised given the majority of their customers would have no idea what it is. The best access to data I could find is an excel file I can download with a limited set of data. Also, there are too many days with zero usage which is not correct…
I have the same chart and info on my account page, so I’m thinking that maybe that is not the result of the API, although it may be scraped as a means of getting it into HA.
Based on what the Atmos Customer Service person told me, you may need to call in and request access information for the API.
I for one am anxious to see what you can find out. My area will not be getting the remote meters for some time it seems, so I’m going to have to wait.
No, I only have monthly usage. The point I was trying to make is that Atmos shows usage data on my account page, too but I have no API access to any of it.
Since you’re getting actual daily reads, contact their customer service line and ask for API access. That was the process they conveyed to me when I called. They supposedly are only making the API available to those areas to which WMR services have been deployed, but I don’t think the API is automatic - you need to ask for it, apparently.
Following this topic. I only recently realized there was a Texas Smart Meter integration of electricity consumption and I was hoping to find the same for gas.
@aruffell - Did you specifically request they install a wireless meter at you home? Or were you just lucky and they happened to show up and do it?
No, I just asked when they foresaw installing them in my area and next thing I got was a message asking when they could stop by to see if one worked… if it did, they would leave it turned on, otherwise they were going to leave it installed but switched off. They said they believed there was no signal in my area but turns out there was.
Just following up to see if anyone has been able to get access to an Atmos Energy API. If so, which support channel did you go through to get the API information?