{"id":6233,"date":"2026-04-22T14:46:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/?p=6233"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:48:27","slug":"project-cloud-electric-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/2026\/04\/22\/project-cloud-electric-meter\/","title":{"rendered":"Project cloud electric meter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The cloud electric meter is a project consisting of a 3 parts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1- A microcontroller and a current transformer (As of now, I am using the SCT-013)<br>2- A server to collect the data from the microcontrollers<br>3- A mobile phone app to display the data<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second and third (Server and application) are beyond the scope of what we are doing here, here, I will be examining all the options for a microcontroller and current transformer, With and without the cloud part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1- The no cloud setup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The first example we will be using is the current transformer (SCT-013) with a nodeMCU ESP8266 that shows data about the current on a screen, this is the simplest setup, and is for people who are here to figure out how to connect their transformer, To do this, you will need a 16 x 2 screen, and an LCD I2C Interface Adapter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1- <a href=\"\/blog\/2026\/04\/22\/connecting-the-esp8266-to-lcd-through-i2c-board\/\">Connecting the LCD to an ESP8266<\/a> (Tutorials for arduino and ESP32 are all over the internet)<br>2- Connecting the Current Transformer<br>3- The software<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cloud electric meter is a project consisting of a 3 parts 1- A microcontroller and a current transformer (As of now, I am using the SCT-013)2- A server to collect the data from the microcontrollers3- A mobile phone app to display the data The second and third (Server and application) are beyond the scope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,89,109,106,107,217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-electric-meter","category-diy-electronics","category-esp32","category-esp8266","category-esp8266-diy-electronics","category-raspberry-pi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6233"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6240,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions\/6240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voodoo.business\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}