Direct pulse counting
Hello, I have been already using emoncms for monitoring electricity and PV energy for one year. Today I tried to connect pulse output from heat pump energy meter, but after couple of hours I am not...
View ArticleIN-Z61 pulse count interference
I have an Elster gas meter and purchased an IN-Z61 pulse counter (I believe it’s a reed switch) to monitor my gas usage. It’s connected using the provided 5m cable to my emonTx across IRQ/GND. The...
View ArticleBasic Pulse question
Hi There. Firstly apologies for the basic questions, Ive tried to get my head around this but I just can’t. I’ve followed the Pulse sensor guide but its not giving me all the information I’m after, I...
View ArticlePulse counting - a sanity check
I have a new system, EmonTx + RFM69Pi, arrived from the OEM shop yesterday. Seems to work nicely on a spare Rpi-3B with newly downloaded emonSD image (the EmonTx has AC V monitor, one CT on the mains...
View ArticlePulse Monitoring Help
Hi, I bought an EmonPi kit with the pulse monitor, the sales docs and features made it sound like it was a relatively easy setup to get going on graphing energy use, unfortunately my experience has...
View ArticleLED Pulse Sensor Maximum Imp/Sec
Hello, I am thinking of purchasing an Optical Utility Meter LED Pulse Sensor (possibly with an emonPi). However, I can’t find an estimate of the maximum imp/sec which the sensor can detect, sorry if I...
View ArticleQuestion about Elster A150
Hello !! My question is about how its works the Elster A150 because sometimes the pulse led its continous (not pulse). I dont understand why sometimes the led is continually switched on ?¿ i can’t...
View ArticleAdding PR6 pulse counter to V200 water meter and EmonPi
@Cobalt wrote: Hi all, I just got a new water meter installed which I’d like to add to my EmonPi. It’s an Elster V200 and I’ll most likely order the Elster PR6 1:1 pulse counter. Two questions: has...
View ArticleOptical pulse to W without REDIS or PHPTIMESERIES
@hockeyshooter wrote: I have a solar PV installation with a pulse detector on the PV meter. I need to convert the pulse count input and convert to Watts but because of limitations on the server...
View ArticlePulsecount and myEnergy App
@Matthias_Wursch wrote: I would like to setup the “myEnergy App” after i have removed the deprecated “kWh to Power” Feed. Now I am missing an appropriate feed for “House or building use in watts”. Can...
View ArticleFirst try with EmonPi - Pulsecount stuck at 1
@bardal wrote: Hi, I have just setup a new emonPi which I assembled myself (as in connected the emonpi board to a RPi3 I already owned). At the moment I have only connected one sensor - the...
View ArticleGas Monitoring
@BigAlC wrote: Hi everyone, I have an emonpi (Raspberry Pi 3) with the bundled temperature sensor that I purchased in March 2018 and would now like to monitor my gas usage. I think I know how to do...
View ArticleDIY Pulse splitter?
@sroof wrote: I’d like to capture pulses from several water meters in a building on my college campus. The water meters provide a simple dry contact closure through a pair of wires but the wires are...
View ArticlePulse monitor and thermal sensor both with RJ45
@Giulio_Giraldi wrote: Hello, I’m trying to install for the first time a bought emonpi-3 (https://openenergymonitor.com/emonpi-3/), I have the pulse detector and the thermal sensor, both have an rj45...
View ArticleOptical pulse counter operating voltage
@pb66 wrote: Having recently posted on both the First try with EmonPi - Pulsecount stuck at 1 and Directly connecting to Optical Pulse Counter with RPi? threads a question has cropped up that I think...
View ArticleDIY RJ45 breakout
@Orionn wrote: I have an emonpi, with the bundled temperature sensor and pulse counter. I have made my own RJ45 breakout by just double-jumpering each wire together into two RJ45 “mechs”. I have...
View ArticleemonPi + connecting reed switch for gas pulse counting
@mozster wrote: Hi I’m planning to connect a reed switch from my gas meter to an emonPi, but it’s not clear to me what the best way to wire it up is… I’ve got this reed switch - I’ve tested it with a...
View ArticleESP8266 + pulse counting Wifi upload to Emoncms
@myozone wrote: I’ve been thinking about a cheap method of uploading led pulses from my Kwh meter to Emoncms and thought it could be done with just a ESP8266 and a photo diode like the one you can get...
View ArticleWemos D1 Mini (ESP8266) pulse counting
@JoniR wrote: Hi, I have an problem to use TSL257 Light-to-Voltage optical converter. I have tried to achieve pulse counting on Wemos D1 Mini (ESP8266). 10k resistor is connected between signal and...
View ArticleHow to get correct kWh/W values from Pulse
@Alpoy wrote: Hi, I’m trying to get a kWh/d, kWh (counting) and a Watt/power value from my feeds (I’m fetching this data for openHAB via the API). However, I’m not sure I’m doing this right, :...
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