Home water pressure sensor
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One solution that I can think of is to use MySensors. https://www.mysensors.org/
This is a DIY community platform for making sensors etc. It is supported by Vera and OpenLuup, @akbooer is using it if I am not wrong.I found someone that had made a water pressure sensor that you perhaps could have a look at for inspiration: https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/8731/water-pressure-sensor/1?_=1590472756396&lang=en-US
In short with MySensors you set up a gateway and then the sensors you want. Each node is an Arduino or similar. I used an USB connected gateway with my Vera, but an Ethernet connected gateway is needed for OpenLuup.
I set it up a number of years ago on my VeraLite and it actually worked really well. I used it mainly for simple temperature sensors. I stopped using it because of that each time the Vera rebooted the gateway was lost, and I had to re-discover it on the Vera USB port. Quite a bit of hazzle since the Vera had a tendency to reboot quite a lot.
If I get some time I may have a go at restarting MySensors now that I am using OpenLuup since it would be a good way to add dirt-cheap sensors to the system.
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AFAIK the only Zwave sensor is made by FortrezZ, now part of eZlo => https://www.fortrezz.com/flow-meter
Ironically, not very well supported under Vera
Zuno and a custom sensor is another ZWave route.
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Maybe this helps... its not a working out of the box thing but...
ESP8266 OTA Water Pressure Flow Monitor
I've been working with the ESP8266 for quite some time now, but I've only programmed it while it was sitting right at my desk and having it ...
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One solution that I can think of is to use MySensors. https://www.mysensors.org/
This is a DIY community platform for making sensors etc. It is supported by Vera and OpenLuup, @akbooer is using it if I am not wrong.I found someone that had made a water pressure sensor that you perhaps could have a look at for inspiration: https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/8731/water-pressure-sensor/1?_=1590472756396&lang=en-US
In short with MySensors you set up a gateway and then the sensors you want. Each node is an Arduino or similar. I used an USB connected gateway with my Vera, but an Ethernet connected gateway is needed for OpenLuup.
I set it up a number of years ago on my VeraLite and it actually worked really well. I used it mainly for simple temperature sensors. I stopped using it because of that each time the Vera rebooted the gateway was lost, and I had to re-discover it on the Vera USB port. Quite a bit of hazzle since the Vera had a tendency to reboot quite a lot.
If I get some time I may have a go at restarting MySensors now that I am using OpenLuup since it would be a good way to add dirt-cheap sensors to the system.
@ArcherS said in Home water pressure sensor:
One solution that I can think of is to use MySensors. https://www.mysensors.org/
Yes, I have used these. I even posted about openLuup on their site a while ago. My favourite system, for a while, was a mySensors gateway running on the Arduino on a Yûn board with its SBC running OpenWRT and openLuup. Worked a treat. Since then, their firmware has been updated, but so has their plugin.
@ArcherS said in Home water pressure sensor:
I stopped using it because of that each time the Vera rebooted the gateway was lost
This, you have to blame on Vera’s poor
luup.iomodule, which lacks the capability to restart a lost connection. Should be a fairly easy work-around to fix that on openLuup, which currently runs their gateway plugin with no modification, IIRC. -
@ArcherS said in Home water pressure sensor:
One solution that I can think of is to use MySensors. https://www.mysensors.org/
Yes, I have used these. I even posted about openLuup on their site a while ago. My favourite system, for a while, was a mySensors gateway running on the Arduino on a Yûn board with its SBC running OpenWRT and openLuup. Worked a treat. Since then, their firmware has been updated, but so has their plugin.
@ArcherS said in Home water pressure sensor:
I stopped using it because of that each time the Vera rebooted the gateway was lost
This, you have to blame on Vera’s poor
luup.iomodule, which lacks the capability to restart a lost connection. Should be a fairly easy work-around to fix that on openLuup, which currently runs their gateway plugin with no modification, IIRC.@akbooer said in Home water pressure sensor:
This, you have to blame on Vera’s poor
luup.iomodule, which lacks the capability to restart a lost connection. Should be a fairly easy work-around to fix that on openLuup, which currently runs their gateway plugin with no modification, IIRC.Amen to this. On openLuup I actually made some small changes to the io module to restart a timed out connection. It is already in my fork.
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Looks like flow-meter from FortrezZ is only reporting water consumption, not pressure!
So my option is a DIY like @ArcherS proposed!
