One remark: In the video I say that you send the data to Home Assistant via MQTT. Actually, of course you send the data to your MQTT Broker (e.g. Mosquitto) and Home Assistant just subscribes on the topic. Just to have it correct 😎
What's the best way to tell if one uses BT or BLE? Would something like a Flipper Zero work to confirm the signal and format? My water meter must communicate to the remote reader somehow, but there's very little information on it to go by.
@elzzon there are lots of apps out there which you can use to scan for BLE devices and their advertising data. This could help to identify whether your device supports BLE
Great Project my only problem is that my water meter is outside my house I do not have a power source close by, I thought of using a power bank but when the power banks runs out would all the setting be lost ?
The settings are definitely stored, otherwise you could not restart the device nor would it keep the settings during a short power outage. So I think it should work with the power bank 😊
There is a "Utility meter" integration in HA that is going allow you to add that and do things like hourly, daily, monthly and yearly... It's perfect for this.
@@the_smart_home_maker Well, perhaps my two water meters are not suitable. The number recognition only works around 1 out of 10 shots for one and nearly never for the other.
