Hardware

Pachube-ready Consumer Products

Current Cost Bridge

Monitor energy usage from your home and/or individual appliances with one of Current Cost's monitors, then send the data to Pachube via the Bridge.

http://www.currentcost.com/product-bridge.html

Arexx

Wireless sensing system with remote sensors and LAN receiver. Send direct to Pachube with a simple setup procedure.

Approximate costs:
Temperature sensor: €30
Combined temperature/humidity: €40
CO2: €105
BS1000 LAN receiver: €105

Product details: http://www.arexx.com/templogger/html/en/info.htm
German Distributor (Conrad): Link
French Distributor (Littoclime): Link
UK Distributor (Audon): Link
US Distributor (Abacus Instruments): Link

More coming soon!

If you currently have or are building hardware that you would like to offer to the Pachube community, email biz@pachube.com!

Development/Hackable Platforms

Nanode

Nanode is an open source Arduino-like board that has in-built web connectivity. It connects to a range of wireless, wired and ethernet interfaces.
It allows you to develop web based sensor and control systems - giving you web access to six analogue sensor lines and six digital I/O lines.
It costs under £20 as an easy build it yourself kit. Nanode was designed with Hacking in mind.

http://www.nanode.eu/

Home Automation Hub

The Home Automation Hub (HAH) is a WiFi router that has been re-purposed as a flexible Home Automation (HA) controller.

It can be purchased as a read-to-assemble kit for £42.

http://www.homeautomationhub.com/

Arduino

No introduction necessary!

Numerous tutorials for connecting Arduinos to Pachube are here:
http://community.pachube.com/arduino

mBed microcontroller

The mbed Microcontroller is made for prototyping, and comes in a 40-pin 0.1" pitch DIP form-factor so it's ideal for experimenting on breadboard, stripboard and PCBs. It supports lots of interfaces, so you can connect it to all sorts of input and output circuits and modules.

See this walkthrough explaining how to connect an mBed microcontroller to Pachube:
http://mbed.org/cookbook/Pachube

OpenGear ACM 5000 Console Server

Low-power embedded Linux device server with USB, serial, data ports and Ethernet - optional wifi and 3G. Rugged high temp and NEMA dust & water tight models available. Includes Custom Development Kit for rapid application bring up and kernel customisation.

See this walkthrough explaining how to connect a USB weather station to Pachube using an OpenGear Console Server:
http://community.pachube.com/node/690

ASUS WL-500G router with OpenWrt & Current Cost

Simple perl script can be used to feed pachube with average power and temperature readings from CurrentCost Envi (CC128) which is connected with ASUS WL-500G router. No CurrentCost data cable necessary for this setup but some soldering is required.
http://wiki.version6.net/pachube_currentcost