# Monitoring Economy 7 Times

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/monitoring-economy-7-times/17259>\
**Category:** Share Your Projects\
**Created:** [28 October 2019 21:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/monitoring-economy-7-times/17259 "2019-10-28T21:34:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [28 October 2019 21:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/monitoring-economy-7-times/17259/1 "2019-10-28T21:34:58Z")

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Following

> [@Control smartphone camera with Node red installed on Android](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/control-smartphone-camera-with-node-red-installed-on-android/17089/30):
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> Just another solution if anyone comes along in future I ran IP WEbcam on my 'droid phone And then used the HTTP Request node on a flow on my Win10 machine to grab a picture

I finally decided to do something I've wanted to for a while - stick a camera to watch my electricity meter and find out what actual time it switches to/from nighttime mode

So I've used my old Samsung Note 3 for this - for some reason it returns a green inverted image so hence the need for a bit of image processing

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/d/d0444f1709ed9223ffc68f48055b4bde4fa73c68.png)

Last image (Base64) is up on [mqtt.eclipse.org](http://mqtt.eclipse.org) as cymplecy/powermeter

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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [28 October 2019 22:29 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/monitoring-economy-7-times/17259/2 "2019-10-28T22:29:58Z")

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Now with timestamp on the image to make it easier for analysis tomorrow

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/e/e359ced81ac477fa1a31410c370da7b1c8dccc60.png)

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**Author:** ![ukmoose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ukmoose/32/13_2.png) [@ukmoose](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ukmoose)\
**Post date:** [28 October 2019 22:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/monitoring-economy-7-times/17259/3 "2019-10-28T22:41:31Z")

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Just a word of warning, economy 7 is 7 hours in 24 it doesn’t have to be continuous, dependant on where you are in the country it can be on then off and then back on over a night

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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [29 October 2019 07:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/monitoring-economy-7-times/17259/4 "2019-10-29T07:33:17Z")

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> [@ukmoose](#):
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> economy 7 is 7 hours in 24 it doesn’t have to be continuous,

That's what I understood when it started up.

IIRC , in my parents old house in Newcastle in the 70's , we had night storage heaters put in that were directly wired to a night only circuit.

But when I googled about a few years ago, although my supplier doesn't seem to have any info on it - other suppliers said it was region dependant and the ones that give out info implied that North-West England are fixed at 12:30-7:30

So I thought I'd check it out 🙂

 ![2019-10-29-00-25-09](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/0/0a8e084c06e6b3ddb6672984d15b0225453ba8d3.gif)

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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [29 October 2019 08:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/monitoring-economy-7-times/17259/5 "2019-10-29T08:03:57Z")

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And back again

 ![2019-10-29-07-22-09](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/2X/7/78c1227d7905a12caf8dd6400d177823f51acc42.gif)