mypowerstats

Retrieve information from the Eskom API

##What's going on here? This code makes a query to the myeskom.co.za website and pulls out the publically available information. Nothing funny is going on here, its just a different way to display the information that Eskom has made available

##Why?

I wanted something that displayed a simple 2-line summary. No fancy webapp, no icons. Just text

##Getting data thats relevant to you

You will need two pieces of information from the myeskom.co.za website in order for this to work. To get these pieces of information:

1. Go to http://www.myeskom.co.za/
2. Register an account (click on the top left icon -> My profile)
3. Open your web browsers Developer console, go to the Network tab.
4. Go back to the dashboard (top left icon -> Dashboard)
5. Scroll through the Network requests, look for a POST to 24?=, Click it
6. Select the Params subtab
7. Copy the authKey and city values
8. Put authKey and city into the mypowerstats scripts in place of the bogus values

##What you'll get

The response from the myeskom site is a JSON Object.

In the object you'll find some useful things, and some useless things

Useful:

• 'status' = Power Alert Status (Eskom's colour index of grid status)
• 'level' = Power Level (Eskom's way of stating the grid load)
• 'levelstatus' = Power Trend (Trend of the load. Up/Down/Stable)

Sort of useful:

• 'location' = Location (incase you forgot)
• 'tmp' = Outside Temperature (Celcius)
• 'appliances' = An Array of Appliances that Eskom thinks you should turn off
  • 'name' = Name of the appliance you should turn off

Useless:

• 'nextloadsheddingdate' = Next Load Shedding Date (I've never seen this populated. It's always null)
• 'tiptitle' and 'tipofday' = Eskom gives you helpful Tips on saving electricity. Like using a blanket instead of a heater.

##License

This code is released under The MIT License (MIT).

##Credits

Written and maintained by Kieran Murphy [email protected]

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