@jkerekes look here for example: myHomeAssistant/esphome/kincony-kc868-a16.yaml at b7c47efcda4563c3afe161639b87d633f2b8c137 · Roving-Ronin/myHomeAssistant · GitHub
Note the line…
allow_other_uses: true
Just an update confirming that those switches work a treat - I also have oodles left-over if anyone wants some.
Some other notes:
- That size reed switch is a near-perfect fit, and the leads both coming out of the same end makes it much easier to wire going into the meter’s receptacle.
- My meter was 5L/pulse too, but the magnet dial appears to be about 1/3 ON, and 2/3 OFF, so you could (in theory) get better precision by counting rising and falling edges with appropriate weights (or just do 2.5L each direction approximately).
- The Zigbee switch sensor is working great
- Zipties aren’t the best way to mount the sensor box to the meter, but it’s doing the trick for now
- To get the open/close sensor to work as a cumulative meter in HASS, I added an automation that increments a counter helper on the state changes, and then added a template helper that multiplies the pulse count by the pulse weight to get total litres of usage.
This is awesome - where abouts are you located? I’d be keen to buy a couple of the sensors off of you, but may not be worth the postage to the ACT.
Thanks!
I tried this but the battery on the Aqara door & window sensor died inside of a week.
How did you modify the solar panel to work