Breakdown of currentcost xml output

With all the blogject/tweetject activity going on with James Taylor, Chris Hodgins, Nick O’Leary and of course Andy-SC, and with Nick’s excellent guide to getting the data and creating custom graphs, I thought it would be good to blog about the actual xml data, and in doing so create a reference article for new people joining the currentcost foray! I do not know what all the data stands for, and this article will get updated as and when I am told/I work it out!

Updated: XML notations have been updated in line with comments to blog post. Thank you to everyone for helping with this!

<msg>
  <date>
    <dsb>00030</dsb> // This is the 'days since birth'
    <hr>00</hr><min>20</min><sec>11</sec> // The Time
  </date>
  <src>
    <name>CC02</name> // The name of the device
    <id>00077</id>  // Communication channel for device
    <type>1</type> // Hardware version of the device.
    <sver>1.06</sver> // Software version
  </src>
  <ch1>
    <watts>00168</watts> // Value from the 1st channel clamp
  </ch1>
  <ch2>
    <watts>00000</watts> // Value from the 2nd channel clamp
  </ch2>
  <ch3>
    <watts>00000</watts> // Value from the 3rd channel clamp
  </ch3>
  <tmpr>25.6</tmpr> // Current Temperature as recorded by unit
  <hist>
    <hrs> // Total Kwh used in 2 hour blocks
      <h02>000.3</h02>
      ....
      <h26>003.1</h26>
    </hrs>
    <days> // Total Kwh used per day(s)

      <d01>0014</d01>
      ....
      <d31>0000</d31>
    </days>
    <mths> // Total Kwh used per month(s)

      <m01>0000</m01>
      ....
      <m12>0000</m12>
    </mths>
    <yrs> // Total Kwh used per year(s)

      <y1>0000000</y1>
      ....
      <y4>0000000</y4>
    </yrs>
  </hist>
</msg>

Questions that I would like answered.

• Is the data stored in persistent memory? Answered by AndySC. Yes it is flash memory
• What does DSB stand for? Answered by Nick in comments below and xml above