Wondering if anybody has a fairly simple solution to getting water pressure data into the ISY ?

I'm using 5.xx on my ISY, and would like to get some info on my well / pump status into the ISY somehow.

Thanks for any help.

 

3 hours ago, telljcl said:

Wondering if anybody has a fairly simple solution to getting water pressure data into the ISY ?

I'm using 5.xx on my ISY, and would like to get some info on my well / pump status into the ISY somehow.

Thanks for any help.

 

What kind of budget do you have in mind to accomplish this task?!? 

16 hours ago, Teken said:

What kind of budget do you have in mind to accomplish this task?!? 

As little as possible - can infer water pressure from other data at no / low cost, so probably wouldn't want to spend over $150 or so.

Thanks

I don't know how much DIY you want here, but you could look into getting a Raspberry Pi ZeroW, and then monitoring, through the GPIO pins, the status, pressure, flow rate, etc. that you want to bring into the ISY, and then implementing a remote Polyglot node server on the RPi ZeroW that communicates with Polyglot running on another, network connected RPi. There is already a Polyglot nodeserver for the GPIO on the RPi that could be migrated to a remote nodeserver, and you could customize your nodeserver to report well and pump status.

7 hours ago, Goose66 said:

I don't know how much DIY you want here, but you could look into getting a Raspberry Pi ZeroW, and then monitoring, through the GPIO pins, the status, pressure, flow rate, etc. that you want to bring into the ISY, and then implementing a remote Polyglot node server on the RPi ZeroW that communicates with Polyglot running on another, network connected RPi. There is already a Polyglot nodeserver for the GPIO on the RPi that could be migrated to a remote nodeserver, and you could customize your nodeserver to report well and pump status.

May be a little involved - don't want to extend beyond use of my Windows server into Rpi devices etc...

Thanks for the blueprint for doing it, however.

 

19 hours ago, telljcl said:

May be a little involved - don't want to extend beyond use of my Windows server into Rpi devices etc...

Thanks for the blueprint for doing it, however.

 

Does it have to measure pressure vs flow rate  vs volume of water?!? I ask because there are several flow rate / water volume solutions out there. Some may meet your budget while others may not. 

But, they do integrate with the ISY Series Controller . . .

1 hour ago, Teken said:

Does it have to measure pressure vs flow rate  vs volume of water?!? I ask because there are several flow rate / water volume solutions out there. Some may meet your budget while others may not. 

But, they do integrate with the ISY Series Controller . . .

It would need to read pressure. What are those solution, just out of curiosity?

Thanks

 

57 minutes ago, telljcl said:

It would need to read pressure. What are those solution, just out of curiosity?

Thanks

 

Flow Switch: https://www.amazon.com/Lemonpool-Assembly-Replacement-Compatible-Generators/dp/B071SHJLN4/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1510606504&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=flow+switch+assembly+with+tree+replacement&psc=1

There were a couple other solutions in the forums but I will need to recall the title and search for them.

17 hours ago, Teken said:

Flow Switch: https://www.amazon.com/Lemonpool-Assembly-Replacement-Compatible-Generators/dp/B071SHJLN4/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1510606504&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=flow+switch+assembly+with+tree+replacement&psc=1

There were a couple other solutions in the forums but I will need to recall the title and search for them.

Thanks - interesting...

For pressure measurement, you want a "potable water" rated "Pressure transducer", probably something with a range of 0-100 PSI.  

Even a cheap analog (low voltage output) transducer is going to start at around twenty bucks, and you'll still need something to take in the signal.

Not cheap, but good quality and well-supported:

https://www.atlas-scientific.com/product_pages/pressure/a-10_pressure.html