![]() I know I've seen some nice digital indoor water meters used for old houses split into many dorms/apartments and the likes. I am thinking its a good chance the OP has a pit like mine, IIRC last time I looked in the pit it had a device that looked just like that orion classic transmitter and it had a flush mount antenna mounted on the top of the lid to get the signal out. something that may not trigger a flood sensor but is driving up your bill. If you get readings accurate enough, your automation system could even notify you of a stuck toilet or faucet not all the way off. I been thinking of putting a hall sensor on my gas meeter, but its right up next to the house and already penetrates into the basement above ground. I have copper and soldering it is pretty easy if you know what your doing, if not I think it'd be cheaper to hire someone to install them in a few hours than the cost of the meeter and valves. I would much rather do it inside the house, near my automation system. then building something rugged enough to survive the pit without interfering with the other reader installed would be tough. tough RF environment with no power source so trenching some wires out there is going to have to happen. ![]() There some big obstacles with reading off the meeter, mine is in a pit with a metal lid. woke up one morning afternoon with it knee high when I got out of bed. Ive personally been flooded out a few times living in my parents basement as a teen, the power would go out in a storm and the sump pump would be down for hours. Yeah opensprinkler already has a provision for a master valve that it energizes anytime it turns on so it would be very simple to add it to that. People there tend to use a lot of high end stuff. One of the more active Home Automation forums on the net is you might try searching/posting there. install a secondary meter / flow sensor of some kind after the water dept's meterįHSS is just a modulation technique like AM, FM, QAM, FDQAM, etc it doesn't determine the frequency. You could also hire a turk to read it for you.Ĥ. ![]() train a camera on the face of the meter and HEAVILY modify OpenALPR or something similar until it can read your meter by OCR. sense every time the needle goes around in a full circle.ģ. Build some type of optical or vibration/sound based sensor you attach the the outside of the meter. Hard to do without expensive equipment, hard even then.Ģ. reverse engineer the protocol / build a receiver or buy one. ebay might be more enlightening.ĭon't mess with your meter, the wires, or the transmitter unless you're prepared for a very large fine.ġ. Click to expand.I wouldn't bother contacting them. ![]()
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