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Any ideas?
my assumption has been that my antiquated NA/US water and gas meters would not support sensors - which means that so far I've been too lazy to even go check on the vendor/model numbers to verify.
but this morning I was inspired to go look, and the gas is Actaris Metris, and the water is Neptune with a 2-wire Schlumberger display. need to find out more, but this is slightly promising.
(a few cities in California have even been giving away free wireless internet via all new smart meter upgrades! lucky. don't think my town will be seeing that anytime soon)
the next step (the true dumb question) is - what is a reasonable maximum length for PWM? (obviously that depends on frequency, voltage, etc - signal too weak if wire too long, picking up radio interference or crosstalk if wire too long, etc)
I've tried to do some searching, but all I really found so far is that the "official" sensor cables are 2m. I think I'm not alone in this, 6' is not going to reach the meters in more than a few households.
for one thing, the local building code requires gas bulkhead, which is often where the meter also goes for convenience, to be a certain distance from electrical mains - so our gas meter is 8 feet from the mains, and also outside the house, while of course the flukso lives inside the house.
water meter is inside the house, but something like 25' or more from the electrics panel.
another thing that changes the whole nature of this question, at some point soon I'll be smiling when a shiny flukso v2b arrives - the 868mhz radio may be very useful getting around distances. at which point I can hack together my own rfm12b sensors of many crazy kinds*. (the outside gas meter could still be a problem though, our house is wrapped in foil, literally - all the insulation inside every single wall is metal-coated - even entirely below the foundation!)
*can flukso monitor the level of seed in the bird feeder? tell me the refrigerator temperature? inform me that the neighbors need to mow their lawn? rig a jeenode into a Watt's-Up meter and tell me about PV DC? sure, why not!!!
Ive been setting this new one up all night (Came with a Euro plug for Australia??)
Any way I can not get the Minute tab to report on the graph page.
Standard error message,
Error - The call for sensor Consumption experienced a timeout. You are probably not in the same local network as the FLM.
Been thru this many times on the original Flukso 2 and fixed it by changing an ip addy in the settings. The new one has a different interface that you cant play with..
Help..
I need API tokens for PVoutput.
I had them for the olf Flukso but Ive just installed a new one and dont see them anywhere?
Baz
My config
Flukso connected
Port 1 Clamp 50a brown wire only aprox 40cm from fusebox, via dash visable only wrong numbers
Port 2 Clamp 50a brown wire nesar fuse aprox 3 cm, now also visable on graph but also not correct values
Port 6, smart meter via rj11, seen on site electricity and gas but not within graph. Get error about network....
Cable received for fluso was defective 1 outside wire did not work I beleave it was yellow. Found it out via a multimeter resistancetest.
Created with a telephone wire a new one.
I tried several firmware versions, its now on 223 I can not see releasenotes about firmware versions. What are correct pins for smart meter cable to flukso. A and b on flukso should connect to outside wires of smart meter? Which is a and wich is b??
Not much fun yet with Flukso..... or do I have a defective Flukso??
update:
brown/white 1=NC
brown 2=RTS ==> 6a
orange 3=GND ==> 5-
green 4=NC
blue 5=RxD ==> 6b
blue/white 6=NC
'smart' meter it only shows 5v at 3=GND/6a=RTS
3=GND/6b=RxD shows 0,06/0,07v
Still see message
×Error - The call for sensor smart-main experienced a timeout. You are probably not in the same local network as the FLM.
Grtz
Richard
