Hey thanks, I had blocked it apparently.
Since they only provide the data to specific companies there’s no way to interface directly with this api (too bad). To make the “green button” work you’d have to authenticate with their SAML implementation then download, but this direction always fails at some point which is why home assistant in general discontinued web scraping.
Hey all! I have been following this thread and others like it since many providers are using smart meters. I too live within the xcel energy region. Today, I sent an email to their greenbutton API team essentially requesting that customers like you and me could be a vendor in the same way these 3rd party companies can. I recommend you all do likewise and let them know this is something that would benefit all parties mutually to be better stewards of our resources and save energy.
Email is here: [email protected]
There’s now something called the “Xcel Energy Launchpad” which appears to be able to open the meters to one’s own wifi network and open data to “a wide range of energy tools provided by Xcel Energy and third party developers.”
Only problem is, like pretty much all my experiences with Xcel’s websites, the site is buggy and is throwing an “Authorization header cannot be null” error when trying to initialize the service/tool(s).
Maybe others have had success?
Where do you see this at after you login?
Welp. Again typical to Xcel… I thought “well maybe the error will go away if I logout and log back in again…”
So I logged out and logged back in again and now the “Xcel Energy Launchpad” signup vanished like a fart in the wind.
I requested access and received confirmation within 1-day. Now, if I only knew what to do with this access…
From what I’ve read so far, this development is very early and does not yet connect to actual meters.
“A meter must be provisioned with WIFI creds and client cert IDs (the ids of certs that the meter will accept sessions with) as you might have presumed. This is all done via backend services that Xcel and Itron manage. Itron and Xcel had a launch conference where these details were explained in regards to Xcel Meters. Essentially an app must provide users instructions on how to go their Xcel account and provision their meter to work with the app.”
I signed up and was given access within 24 hours as well. sadly though I am not a developer and have no idea what I am looking at. There is a local sdk with some C+ libraries and a cloud SDK with a number of python files. Looks like the cloud sdk uses MQTT to publish energy data
The goal of this Cloud API is to provide
a quick and easy way for you to publish Itron Meter Data,
via MQTT, to the cloud.
You can see how to publish meter data to the cloud
by looking at the following samples:
HelloMeterPubAWS.py - MQTT Publish to AWS IoT Hub
HelloMeterPubAzure.py - MQTT Publish to Azure IoT Hub
HelloMeterPubMosquitto.py - MQTT Publish to Mosquitto
Im not gong to post them since they were shared on gitlab but there is a slide deck that shows how all this is set to work, SDK explanations and how to deploy to a rpi.
Jumping on the thread because I too just got the new Riva Gen 5 (Denver metro) and can no longer pull in readings with rtlamr/metermon. I had found the Energy Launchpad mentioned earlier and submitted the info to connect the meter to my WiFi network. Just got the email this morning saying that my enrollment was confirmed:
Congratulations!
Your enrollment in Xcel Energy Launchpad has been confirmed and you are now able to utilize or connect your eligible in-home devices to your smart meter over your Wi-Fi network. Third party services may not be available at this time.
To manage your enrollment, visit your Billing Accounts in My Account. You will be able to manage your smart meter connection, enroll in eligible services once available, and add authorized devices.
Thank you for your participation in Xcel Energy Launchpad.
I confirmed the meter was connected at this Xcel page and also confirmed the meter has an IP assigned by my network. It doesn’t respond to pings but there is an open port at 8081 that I had no luck connecting to. That same Xcel page has the option to add new devices, maybe there is something there:
Did you look over the repository?
Long time reader first time caller here. Just signed up for access to launchpad. Have not been granted but was invited to this GitLab repo. I’m not skilled at figuring out what to do with this but wanted to share with the community in case this helps further progress. If this is obvious, apologies but didn’t see it mentioned in prior posts.
Hi –
I also signed up for the SDK, was approved within 24h and was able to add my iTron meter to my home wifi network successfully. I am not a developer, but, the documentation and sample python code seems pretty robust as previously mentioned. I am happy to help test to the extent someone can have a look.
Just requested access. Looks like connecting the meter to local WiFi and the SDK access are separate steps, both associated with the Xcel Energy Launchpad. The link to the SDK request form in this post is also broken. Here is the correct link: http://my.xcelenergy.com/s/forms/sdk-access
What was the process that you used to get your meter on your home network? I was approved for the SDK but I’m not really sure of the next steps.
I don’t remember exactly how, but this might be a good place to look: https://my.xcelenergy.com/MyAccount/s/meters-and-devices/manage-meters-and-devices
Where is the launch pad found once you login? I requested access to the gitlab repo but I can’t find anything within the portal that has anything to do with launchpad. Wondering if us country folk aren’t ready for this yet which would be sad lol. I live in CO but down in the San Luis Valley
I don’t think you will see it until they schedule you for a smart meter install.
I’ve been schedule for the install within the next two weeks and now have a place holder in my account that I don’t remember having in the past.
Yeah called Xcel to see if I could get put in a beta program or something lol. They told me that they’re working in the Denver area and that I"ll get notification letters every 30 days starting at 90 days out when they are ready to start rolling the program out here in our area. Guessing that since I’m rural it’ll be sometime before they get to me.
I had a smart meter installed ~Nov 2021 in Denver proper. Was afraid my bills would go up, but they’ve more or less stayed around the same despite being on time-of-use billing.
After I was approved for the SDK, I was able to add my wifi credentials to the meter via the Xcel website under “View Billing Accounts” then “Devices and Meters”. It is now connected to my network (and shows up as connected on Xcel’s website), but does not respond to pings and I am not a developer, so I don’t know where to begin on using the python examples in the SDK.
Appears to me in the code as if the meter has a csv file that shows usage that can be pulled.
The sdk provides three sensors; total consumed power, total delivered power and instantaneous power readings.
