Is anyone reading their water meter with a PC? I gather it's just a serial (RS485?) connection to the outside world? I did a quick search but did not find anything useful. I'd like to log the usage of the sprinklers.
TIA.
Is anyone reading their water meter with a PC? I gather it's just a serial (RS485?) connection to the outside world? I did a quick search but did not find anything useful. I'd like to log the usage of the sprinklers.
TIA.
Bill,
Take a look at '
Bob
Bill Stock wrote:
Ok, that link I sent on my last post doesn't appear to work. Try 'watermeters.com' Same place.
Bob wrote:
Thanks Bob,
That helps a little. But I'm a little fuzzy on the pulse counter changes from Rate to Total. There's obviously some sort of control sequence, but they aren't big on the details. I was hoping to build my own circuit. Something like this
It also talks about restting the Totals a lot. I'd hate to end up with a
100K water bill! :)This appears to be the answer:
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