Emonwrt3 Command line guide

Terminal access

To access the terminal of the emonwrt3 use putty. Use hostname OpenWrt (or the ip address). Connection type ssh. Port 22.

If you are already on a linux type computer just issue a ssh command

ssh root@OpenWrt

If the password has never been set from the web interface then use telnet instead.

telnet OpenWrt

Start/Stop service

The Emonwrt3 service can be stopped with the following command.

/etc/init.d/emonwrt3 stop

Stopping the emonwrt3 service will be required for some commands.

Likewise start the service again like this.

/etc/init.d/emonwrt3 start

Command list

emonwrt3-dbdump

emonwrt3-dbdump

This dumps the rolling database. The output will look as follow

root@emeter:~# emonwrt3-dbdump 
CONFIG: Configuration loaded ok.
DB: Using rolling database /tmp/emonwrt3.db
(0) 0 1550094926 6 -0.00 0.00 0.00 0.11 26.76 -127.00 
(1) 0 1550094936 6 0.00 0.00 0.22 0.00 17.37 -127.00 
(2) 0 1550094946 6 0.00 0.00 0.04 0.08 4.20 -127.00 
(3) 0 1550094957 6 0.00 0.00 0.29 0.08 4.20 -127.00 
(4) 0 1550094967 6 0.00 0.00 1.00 0.03 5.11 -127.00 
KISSDB_get failed (5) (1)

The KISSDB_get failed just means the record has not been filled yet.