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It works with a magnetic sensor, which can be used because of the half-metal rotor of watermeters in my country (Netherlands)<br>
 
It works with a magnetic sensor, which can be used because of the half-metal rotor of watermeters in my country (Netherlands)<br>
 
For magnetic sensor I use the LJ12A3-4-Z/B from the well known company in China. <br>
 
For magnetic sensor I use the LJ12A3-4-Z/B from the well known company in China. <br>
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.
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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.<br>
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The sensor should be placed on the side of the rotator, not in the middle.
 
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With a piece of aluminium it's easy to mount on the meter:
 
With a piece of aluminium it's easy to mount on the meter:

Revision as of 18:16, 23 December 2020

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.
The sensor should be placed on the side of the rotator, not in the middle.

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

RPi watermeter sensor.jpeg


Shematics:

RPi watermeter schematics.jpeg

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:

RPi watermeter experiment.jpeg

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 and 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:

RPi watermeter board.jpeg

All welded on an experiment board, for the Rpi, with a long pin connector, so you can stack other boards.
I use a RJ11 connector to connect the sensor.

Complete mounted on the Pi:

RPi watermeter complete.jpeg