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4th April 2017, 06:29 PM
#1
Automated Home Jr Member
Reading Elster V210P water meter with TPR6 RF module
Hi,
I just got an Elster V210P water meter with 868MHz TPR6 RF module installed at my house.
I am developing my own home automation system (in C#) and was wondering if I can read values from this water meter somehow.
I found out that the RF module uses the Wavenis protocol but so far I was not able to find much more information.
Do you think this would be possible? Has anyone done this already?
If yes, what hardware (868MHz transceiver?) would I need and where can I get this from?
Ideally I would want to connect this to an Arduino or similar but I'm open to any suggestions at this point.
Any pointers where to start on the software side?
Thanks!
Chris
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17th April 2017, 02:13 PM
#2
Automated Home Jr Member
Nobody has any ideas? ;-)
Maybe somebody knows a better place to ask this question?
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25th April 2017, 01:22 PM
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25th April 2017, 08:48 PM
#4
Automated Home Jr Member
Thanks for replying!
Contacting the manufacturer is a good idea (why didn't I think of that?). ;-)
I had already done a bit of research but it didn't turn up too much. It seems it's not just a pulse. According to the datasheet of the RF module on the meter it speaks a protocol called Wavenis. I was not able to find much detail on this.
I could try with one of these 868MHz receivers (they are cheap enough to try) but I have a feeling it would need to be a specialised transceiver (and probably not only a receiver).
I didn't expect to get a full solution here, but these meters must be quite common in the UK now. So I was wondering if anyone has already tried and made some sort of progress getting readings from these meters.
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27th April 2017, 02:02 PM
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4th May 2017, 04:14 PM
#6
Automated Home Jr Member
OK, so I contacted the manufacturer Elster (now part of Honeywell). They confirmed that it uses the Wavenis protocol but he is not able to provide any protocol details as they are confidential. He did send me datasheets for their "Waveport" reading devices but that is not too much use as they are probably not available to the public (I asked but haven't got a reply yet) or if they are, they are probably prohibitively expensive.
It also seems that if the meter is read too often, the battery in the RF module will not last very long.
So it seems I will have to drop the idea of trying to read that meter...
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4th May 2017, 05:26 PM
#7
Automated Home Legend
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4th May 2017, 10:38 PM
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10th May 2017, 04:22 PM
#9
Automated Home Jr Member
Thanks for that (and sorry about the delay).
I'll have a closer look at the Wavenis links you posted.
I did have a look at the article about meter reading with a webcam. I'll keep that in mind for other projects but I'm afraid I can't use this for my water meter. It is installed in a small "manhole" (only slightly bigger than the meter itself) on the road outside my house. There is no power there and no way to run a cable from the house either.
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