RPiWaterMeter

Water usage mesurement with a Raspberry Pi In my case I use Domoticz, but it also works with Home-Assist and other products.

It works with a magnetic sensor, which can be used because of the half-metal rotor of watermeters in my country (Netherlands)
For magnetic sensor I use the LJ12A3-4-Z/B from the well known company in China. You can use most types but be sure to by the OC (Open-Collector) version, while most sensors use higher voltages than a Raspberry Pi.

With a piece of aluminium it's easy to mount on the meter:

Shematics:

Because the sensor needs 9-36 Volt, while a Raspberry Pi only can deliver 5 Volt, I use an adjustable chopper (also from China), adjusted as 12 Volt.
The output is connected to one of the GPIO, which first should configured as input, I use GPIO28 (pin38). The led will show if it works, for every pulse 1 liter water is detected. I use a Raspberry Pi Cluster, so I can do a failover, pin 2,6 and 38 are also wired to a second Pi, for the Power a diode is needed, for each Pi, while it's a bad idea to connect the power to multiple Pi's.

First tested it with an experiment board:

To test it on a pi you need the gpio command: if not installed: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install wiringpi change GPIO 28 (BCM=20 an pin=38) as input: sudo /usr/local/bin/gpio export 20 in Put this line somewhere in a startup file, so it will stay that way, after reboot, best below in /etc/rc.local (without sudo) to show the states: sudo gpio readall

This is the result:

I use a RJ11 connector to connect the sensor.

Complete mounted on the Pi: