Decoding the OWL Intuition XML scheme for electricity monitoring

[soundsk (Jose Torre)]

Just in case this is of any interest to anyone, in the end I used a different approach, that doesn’t require any configuration on the OWL website, and it works perfect for me, I shared it here:

OWL Intuition Power Meter Data into OpenHAB

Hi there, I’ve had an OWL Intuition power meter for two years now, I was planning to switch it for a Z-Wave power meter, but never got around to it. Recently I found out that the OWL sends its power data in XML format over multicast (example code here). I have 3-phase electricity and 3-pase solar monitoring on the same OWL. A couple of users here have implemented partly working solutions, but they didn’t work for me. In the end, I managed to modify a python script that I found so that it suit…