I want to poll a Voltaware monitor that’s measuring power consumption in my house. I can use a browser to view the data direct from the monitor (image below). I thought I could “just” use an “http request” node in Node-RED and parse the html UTF-8 response. However, the payload is gobbledegook - exa…

E1cid 30 August 2022 19:09 2

What headers does it send, it is probably compressed.
this post may help

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