Trigger Nordpool/Elspot price change events to your IFTTT Maker Channel

Gets day-ahead prices from Nordpool

Installation

git clone https://github.com/samuelmr/nordpool-ifttt
npm install
cd nordpool-ifttt
cp config-sample.js config.js
$EDITOR config.js

Configuration

Configuration parameters:
- area: Set the area where you want to follow the prices. You can see
Nordpool/Elspot areas at http://www.nordpoolspot.com/maps/
Currently the active areas are BERGEN, DK1, DK2, EE, ELE, FRE, KR.SAND,
KT, LT, LV, MOLDE, OSLO, SE, SE1, SE2, SE3, SE4, SYS, TR.HEIM and TROMSØ
- currency: Choose either DKK, EUR, NOK or SEK
- currencySubUnit: Name of 1/100 of your currency, e.g. cents for 'EUR'
or öre for 'SEK'
- highTreshold: Set the price limit above which you want the high price
event to be triggered. (Price is the price of a kWh in 1/100 of your
selected currency. For example the value 6 means 6 cents/kWh if your
currency is EUR.)
- lowTreshold: Set the price limit above which you want the low price
event to be triggered.
- maxHighHours: If you use IFTTT to turn off heating when the energy price
is high, you may want to limit the time your heating is off. If you set the
maxHighHours to 3 and the energy price will be above your highTreshold
for 7 hours, only the 3 most expensive consecutive hours will be triggered.
Set to 24 if you want triggers for actual events.
- maxLowHours: Same as maxHighHours but for hours below lowTreshold.
If you want to turn some appliances on when the price is lowest, but don't
want or need to have them on for too long, setting maxLowHours to 2 will
select the two cheapest hours from every cheap streak (consecutive hours
when the price is below lowTreshold). Set to 24 if you don't need limits.
- iftttKey: Activate your IFTTT maker channel and get the key from
https://ifttt.com/services/maker_webhooks/settings.
- debugLevel: Set to 0 to silence all console output. Increase to up to
4 in order to get more debugging information to the logs.
Run node_modules/pm2/bin/pm2 logs "Nordpool IFTTT trigger" to see the
latest log entries.

Usage

Start script will run PM2 to keep the script running.

npm start

IFTTT Usage example

- Go to https://ifttt.com/create/
- Select +this
- Type webhook into the "Search services" search field
- Select the Webhooks icon
- Select Receive a web request
- Enter nordpool_price_high into Event name field (or nordpool_price_lowor nordpool_price_normal)
- Select Create trigger
- Select +that
- Search for the service that should react to the energy price event, e.g. Telldus Live!
- Choose the action for the service you selected, e.g. Turn off a device
- Configure the action if needed, e.g. select the device
- Choose Create action

Enjoy!