Watermeter

[sincze]

I use it but with a PiFace between it. So you have to use a non latest kernel version otherwise it doesn't work.

So you have to use a PiFace for it?

Sorry at the moment this sensor is to expensive for me can't help you at the moment.

[hyla]

I think you should upgrade to the beta version of domoticz, remove the water meter devices, and power the mysensors node back up.
You should receive a meter, that you can edit, and set the type to 'water'

Since We talked about the energy meter I have switched to the beta version. I've tried Your suggestion as above. I DID find the button to change the type
to "water" so I can see the total amount of water used measured in liters (and not kWh ). But I still get TWO devices from ONE sensor with the other
being the water flow in percentage (You are on to this, right? ). While on the energy meter the whole info is shown neatly in just one window (total kWh,
kWh today, current watt usage).
And I still don't really know where the second device comes from. In my sensor firmware I don't issue a second CHILD_ID:

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#define CHILD_ID 1              // Id of the sensor child

MyMessage flowMsg(CHILD_ID, V_FLOW);            // message for usage
MyMessage volumeMsg(CHILD_ID, V_VOLUME);        // message for volume
MyMessage pcMsg(CHILD_ID, V_VAR1);              // message for sending pulse count

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gw.present(CHILD_ID, S_WATER);                // Register this device as water meter sensor
gw.present(CHILD_ID, V_VAR1);                 // present

No second ID ... (the IDs I get reported are as I wrote 00000010 for the water flow/percentage and 1001 for water/RFXMeter.

About the 8/l pulse problem, you should solve this in your sketch

Ah, but I was curious how the others are dealing with this. I know this is not a Domotizc topic
I could use some sort of "dead man switch". If no pulse has occured after a given period, a value of
"0" for current consumption is sent out. I'm probably preventing myself from detecting a tiny water
leakage. But I could only detect that anyway if we were all gone for a week. In our daily water usage
such a tiny amount is ... drowned
But as I said, I was interested what others did about it ...

Thanks for Your input!
Christoph

[gizmocuz]

I'm not on it yet, this will be for a next stable version

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[hyla]

Hi,

I think I got it working. One thing though: as I wrote I get two separate devices, one for the flow (l/min) and one with
(I suppose ...) total water usage in cubic meters and the usage of the current day (in liters).
Now, I started the sensor today and get a reading of 40 l for today and 0.4 m3 in total which is off by a factor of
10, it should be 0.04 m3, shouldn't it? In the log I get a total of 400 l (again factor 10).

In my firmware I registered 40 pulse counts, with one count being one liter. The value for "volume" which is
send to domoticz is calculated by dividing the pulse count by my pulsefactor which is 1000, giving me a
value of 0.04 which is then sent.

Any explanation anyone?

Thanks,
Christoph

[hyla]

Silly me

I stumbled across the settings page for the Meters/Counters. So that's settled then.
Flow rate and daily water consumption give plausible values. Nice.
Two down, one to go. The gasmeter will be hardest. No wheel, no internal
magnet, just numbers. Yuck.

Christoph

[joshimosh]

Silly me

I stumbled across the settings page for the Meters/Counters. So that's settled then.
Flow rate and daily water consumption give plausible values. Nice.
Two down, one to go. The gasmeter will be hardest. No wheel, no internal
magnet, just numbers. Yuck.

Christoph

I think I have a similar gasmeter, just digits - but take a close look at the rightmost digit (which turns fastest). In my case, number 6 has a reflecting spot in it. You can detect it with a barriet line track sensor (have a look at the MySensor wrb pages). Works very well and reliable. It is not too elegant to mount it at the meter, but since (in my case) the meter is down in the basement and not in my living room, so who cares ...

BTW, what number did you enter in the settings page for pulses per cubic meters ? I still have no idea how these numbers relate to the pulses I get from my gasmeter (100 pulses per cubic meter).

Cheers
Josh

[sincze]

Anyone a suggestion why my daily counter is not set to reset to 0 when a new day starts ??

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I am running:

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Domoticz V3.5187
Build Hash: 1660d9a
Build Date: 2016-05-29 10:24:10

I implemented watermeter in mysensors 1.5 not using the interrupts to avoid the false ones created by my tcrt-5000.
Code:
https://www.mysensors.org/build/pulse_water and
https://github.com/sincze/mysensors-watermeter

Sensor seems to be working however not resetting the daily counter.

I did wait 48 hours.... unfortunately no result yet.
https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/2143/ ... r-meter/12

[gizmocuz]

I think the values you are sending are incorrect... 0E, 5E, 10E, 15E....

[sincze]

Oh no.
Did not know that.
If I should send countervalue+E you must be right.
Thx. I'm currently just sending plain 'integer' values.

[gizmocuz]

try to get the value right first, maybe sending a fixed value like 123456

The water divider in the domoticz settings is by default 100

[michaelm86]

Hi Guys,

I just bought this watermeter.
http://www.bestelsnel.nu/winkel/O212000 ... 0pulsgever

I have a lot of stuff connected to domoticz. But im new to the watermeters in domoticz.

Can you guys help met out how to connect te water meter to domoticz and what is need to do?

thanks in advance!

[sincze]

Hi Guys,

I just bought this watermeter.
http://www.bestelsnel.nu/winkel/O212000 ... 0pulsgever

I have a lot of stuff connected to domoticz. But im new to the watermeters in domoticz.

Can you guys help met out how to connect te water meter to domoticz and what is need to do?

thanks in advance!

Interested in an ESP solution?? With ESPEASY pulse counter ?
https://www.letscontrolit.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

[michaelm86]

Hi Guys,

I just bought this watermeter.
http://www.bestelsnel.nu/winkel/O212000 ... 0pulsgever

I have a lot of stuff connected to domoticz. But im new to the watermeters in domoticz.

Can you guys help met out how to connect te water meter to domoticz and what is need to do?

thanks in advance!

Interested in an ESP solution?? With ESPEASY pulse counter ?
https://www.letscontrolit.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Hahaha! yes i am. i have already got some esps with espeasy in use. the only problem is that my watermeter in place is to old... at least i think. it only has a counter. no clocks..

or do you have another solution to that?

[freijn]

Micheal,

We ( small group) thought the same but.....

have a look "under" your meter. There might be a small hole where you can put a reed contact in and start counting.

Best would be if you upload a picture of it..

Cheers,

Frank

[michaelm86]

Micheal,

We ( small group) thought the same but.....

have a look "under" your meter. There might be a small hole where you can put a reed contact in and start counting.

Best would be if you upload a picture of it..

Cheers,

Frank

Hi Frank,

Thanks i Will check it out tonight! and i will upload a picture.