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I bought 10 when I only needed 5 :)

Ok. I'm getting really frustrated with this! I went back and tried another meter and it didn't work. As a matter of fact, it caused my pi to power down. I know I got the colors right! I'm to the point I"m going to put it away and go without flow meters for a while and try again later. I'm...

So I tried another way of wiring my adafruit meters. I cut off the end and soldered on the wires directly. And guess what? It worked! On one anyway. I'll try the rest tomorrow.

Good idea! I'll give that a try.

So I tried my flow meters with very short cables and they work. I had 8' of cat5 previously. I tested them with a circuit tester and it did read 5v at 8'. I don't understand why they won't read... So if the cat5 won't work, what would you suggest for wire to run 8'? The adafruit meters only...

I agree, but it makes for a nice clean connection on a project box. And it's a single cable going to a flow meter instead of three if you get the adafruit meters.

I did have one working through the Cat5 using my original alamode board. Then the power plug fell off when I unplugged it, so I got a new board. Wired everything up. I had all kinds of trouble flashing the new board. I did a fresh install on another SD card and was able to flash it. However...

So I've been messing with this for weeks, and can't get it running. I had to get a new alamode board because the power plug got damaged on my old one. I hooked everything up by cat5 cable and soldered the wires I was going to use. Unfortunately, it's not ready any pours. Do you have any tips...

Perfect! Thanks! I'm working on soldering the wires this week and should be up and running thanks to your help.

One last question. Did you change the following like TimL suggested? Chang the following line in /includes/pours.php $amount = $PULSE_COUNT / 21120; to $amount = $PULSE_COUNT / 1500;

I ordered 10 of them for about $100. I only need 6 but this way I'll have spares. And you can't go wrong at that price

Thanks for the reply! Mine should be here tomorrow. The only thing I will need then is the barb connectors. I'm the same way with the accuracy. I just want to know when I need to make more.

Thanks, wbarber69. I haven't ordered the flow meters yet. I was wondering how they worked. I have this right now: John Guest Female Adapter BSPP - 3/8 x 3/8 BSPP. Do you think I need to get 3/8 x 1/2 BSPP? It's about $33 for 12 of them. I have 6 taps, so I'd probably do that. Maybe I'll...

One of my swiss flows died, so I'm looking at switching over to these. It's hard to see in the pictures, but is there a special connection on the end? I was planning on wiring them to Cat5 cables so I could plug them in to my project box without having to open it up. I was just going to cut...

This works for me. I changed the sleep_threshold = 1800 to get 30 minutes. It took me a bit to figure out why it was going to sleep as soon as it booted up from a reboot. Now to uninstall xscreensaver. No need for that anymore! This is awesome! (Mostly because now my wife won't complain...

How did I miss that?? Thanks and sorry for bringing it all back up again.

Day_tripper, Back in version 1 you had a motion sensor to put your monitor in a "screen saver" mode. Have you done any more work on that? I found some information on putting the monitor in to an actual sleep mode and then waking it up again. But without using an actual screen saver for...

DELETED for being an idiot! I had things plugged in wrong in my breadboard.

Day_Tripper, I got rpints going. I booted up my old pi and followed your link for copying the databases, but I get permission errors. I tried to change the permissions of the folder /var/lib/mysql/ but it wouldn't let me. On a side note, I can't get chromium to autostart, and I'm not sure...

I know, right? Flames about 2" high. No idea what caused that unless the board touched my relay and caused it. No idea. So anyway, I found I have to use Noobs 1.4.1 to get it to boot, so fresh install it is. Unfortunately, I can't get my wifi to work. It's the same adapter I used before on...