Hello everybody,
I’m completely new to HASS, but I’m trying to set up a system that monitors the entire water system of my farm.
For now, I’m just focusing my attention on the water storage part of the system. Things like well water level, pump start-stop, soil humidity and automatic irrigation will be dealt with later.
So, I’ve got four water tanks, and I installed a Dragino LDDS75 distance sensor in each tank.
The idea being to monitor the water level inside each tank.
The four tanks are connected together, but in a funny way that makes them work as a sedimentation system, that’s why they are NOT filling and emptying together, so they are not just connected in series.
Now my dashboard is reporting the distance (in centimeters) from the top of the tanks (where the sensors are installed) to the water level, like so:
As you can see from the gauges, more centimeters (distance from sensor to water level) = low water level = bad situation!
The sensors are installed in the lid of the tanks, at around 200 centimeters height, while the minimum allowed water level is a distance of 170 centimeters, which would mean a 30 centimeters water level from the bottom of the tank (10 centimeters above the outlet).
What I’d really love to do, is to manipulate those numbers in order to get more interesting data, such as:
- available water (in liters) for each tank and for the whole system
- water level (percentage) for each tank and for the whole system
So, is there a way to do so, by using the template sensor?
Thank you in advance for your help!