telljcl Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 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. Link to comment
Teken Posted May 6, 2018 Share Posted May 6, 2018 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?!? Link to comment
telljcl Posted May 7, 2018 Author Share Posted May 7, 2018 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 Link to comment
Goose66 Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 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. Link to comment
telljcl Posted May 8, 2018 Author Share Posted May 8, 2018 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. Link to comment
Teken Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 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 . . . Link to comment
telljcl Posted May 8, 2018 Author Share Posted May 8, 2018 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 Link to comment
Teken Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 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. Link to comment
telljcl Posted May 9, 2018 Author Share Posted May 9, 2018 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... Link to comment
KeviNH Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 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. Link to comment
builderb Posted May 18, 2018 Share Posted May 18, 2018 Not cheap, but good quality and well-supported:https://www.atlas-scientific.com/product_pages/pressure/a-10_pressure.html Link to comment
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