I have installed a Flukso and the electricity and water readings work fine, but my gasmeter is in another room. Is there a way to install a wireless link to transmit the pulses from the gas meter sensor to the Flukso port ? Thanks
Pulse out to pulse in - for this you may use any remote installation that is capable to turn a switch. You may try one of these battery powered remote bells as the transmission should somehow be reliable (a Marconi spark transceiver would also do, but all HAMs around will instantly try to kill you ;-)): If the gasmeter has a magnet then use a reedswitch to close the switch of the bell sender; use an optocoupler on the receiver side instead of the buzzer to interface with the Flukso...
gebhardm |
...alternative is an "Internet-of-Things solution" with two microcontrollers with 433/868/...MHz transmitter/receiver that bridge the air gap (and be puzzled on how to source their current)... Take a look what Lady Ada offers with this respect; also as a tinkering reference.
ltickett |
seems like a jeenode would be perfect for this but i'm unsure if we ever managed to get flukso receive data from jeenodes?
gebhardm |
With respect to an MQTT connected device an ESP-01 works just fine; it actually makes not much difference if you interface a DS1820 or a pulse input; a bit of research is necessary on how to occupy a Flukso sensor ID (icarus75 stated that this is possible - of course, it's just software)
See https://github.com/gebhardm/energyhacks/tree/master/ESP8266 - this sends temparature to an FLM.
Pulse out to pulse in - for this you may use any remote installation that is capable to turn a switch. You may try one of these battery powered remote bells as the transmission should somehow be reliable (a Marconi spark transceiver would also do, but all HAMs around will instantly try to kill you ;-)): If the gasmeter has a magnet then use a reedswitch to close the switch of the bell sender; use an optocoupler on the receiver side instead of the buzzer to interface with the Flukso...
...alternative is an "Internet-of-Things solution" with two microcontrollers with 433/868/...MHz transmitter/receiver that bridge the air gap (and be puzzled on how to source their current)... Take a look what Lady Ada offers with this respect; also as a tinkering reference.
seems like a jeenode would be perfect for this but i'm unsure if we ever managed to get flukso receive data from jeenodes?
With respect to an MQTT connected device an ESP-01 works just fine; it actually makes not much difference if you interface a DS1820 or a pulse input; a bit of research is necessary on how to occupy a Flukso sensor ID (icarus75 stated that this is possible - of course, it's just software)
See https://github.com/gebhardm/energyhacks/tree/master/ESP8266 - this sends temparature to an FLM.