emoncms
The premium Open Source alternative to ThingSpeak
🎯 Best for:Users monitoring solar, heat pumps, or home energy usage.
What is emoncms?
Replaces proprietary IoT platforms like ThingSpeak for logging and processing sensor data. Features a modular dashboard engine and time-series database integration for real-time environmental tracking.
Tech Stack
PHPData Visualization
Why emoncms?
- • Optimized for time-series data
- • Modular dashboard builder
- • Low resource requirements
Limitations
- • PHP-based architecture
- • UI feels dated
- • Complex initial configuration
3/4/2026
Last Update
533
Forks
74
Issues
AGPL-3.0
License
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Competitor Cost
-$1,440
/ year (est. based on ThingSpeak)
Self-Hosted
$0
/ year
Team Size10 Users
150+
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