Shower Timer (in Node-Red)

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Measuring Water Consumption

I put together a cheap water meter for my yard irrigation system that works well. Since then I’ve purchased a second sensor to do the same thing for the whole house but haven’t installed it yet. The ‘meter’ is just a hall effect pulse flow sensor, and the sensor is an ESP32 module that counts the pulses and sends it to HA. This was my first experience with ESP32 and ESPHome, so I think anyone could do it. You do need to cut the main water line and install the sensor, and you need to power th…

Water flow meter - pulse meter included - esphome

I wanted a reliable water meter. Solution with proximity doesn’t work with grid water meter that has plastic wheels. So I’ve purchased a pulse flow water meter from Amazon (about 55euro), I’m in Europe and the item reached me from Germany. See pictures. The brand is systeme-sh. I’ve chosen the 88pulses/L. (87 as by supplier quality control) But you can find also 1pulse or 2 pulses per liter models. I’ve used a d1 mini as interface with ESPHome. Resistor is mandatory and included in the wat…