Use AI on the Edge to Monitor Your Water or Gas Meter with Home Assistant
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- Welcome to my tutorial on using the OpenSource project "AI on the Edge" to read your analog water (or gas) meter and send the readings via MQTT to Home Assistant! In this video, I'll guide you step-by-step through the process, making it easy for you to monitor your water or gas consumption right from your Home Assistant dashboard.
In this video, you will learn:
1. What is "AI on the Edge" and how it works.
2. Setting up your hardware and software.
3. Connecting the AI on the Edge device to your water meter
4. Configuring MQTT to send meter readings to Home Assistant.
5. Viewing and analyzing your meter readings in Home Assistant.
Useful Links:
* Detailed Tutorial on My Blog: Monitor Your Water Consumption with Home Assistant
* AI on the Edge GitHub Repository: AI on the Edge Project
Materials Needed:
* ESP32 cam device
* Analog water or gas meter
* UART to USB converter
* Jumper wires
* 3D Printer and filament (or online printing service)
* Home Assistant setup
* MQTT broker
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:54 What you need
02:33 Wire USB to UART converter
05:23 Install AI on the edge on ESP32 cam device
08:30 Adjust focal point of camera
08:40 3D print holder
11:42 Prepare Micro SD card for ESP32 cam device
15:09 Set up regions of interest in water meter image
18:59 Configure Home Assistant integration
32:23 Conclusion & Outro
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Disclaimer: This video is for educational purposes only. Always follow safety guidelines and consult a professional if needed.
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Very interesting potential here. For more than just water meters, cool project.
Yes, definitely 👍🏻
thanks for the detailed explanation, perfect video length in my opinion
Happy to hear that 😊
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.
Good remark 👍🏻 thank you 😊
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 😎
Both my meters use BLE, so its easy for me whit a Esphome bt Proxy 👍
Awesome - well that is of course the perfect solution 😊
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
Alot of water meters will have a magnet in one of the dials so that you can read that with some kind of reed swith or hall effect sensor.
Great idea 😊
I'm using this as well, but it it very unreliable over here.
Really? In what way unreliable? I use it since at least one year and it works very well
@@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.
@christianbottger493 hm that is bad 😟 sorry to hear that