Read smartmeter via infrared to serial reader. #102
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Hi
my eBus is near the smartmeter which meters my electrical power usage. I can read the current meter count via infrared to serial reader and use this at the moment with a dedicated Raspberry Pi. I would like to use a free eBus adapter pin for that. Even if there is no free UART anymore, so low speeds can be achieved via bit banging. It might be a nice addon for the firmware, because often heating eBus is connected to solarpanel which ist mostly located near your power meter. So you can measure all things with one device.
What do you think about the idea?
One more addition would be a simple pulse counter on one pin, so you can also measure simple meters which signals a specific amount of water, energy or other per pulse.
BTW: I find your extensive commandline interface very impressive. It seems you have nearly setup a complete OS. Great! Only tradeoff: it's not open source, it seems. If it was, maybe I could add my whishes above on my own. But I understand that, you don't want to see hundreds of adapters sold for a penny on Eb**. :-)
Thanks for that great piece of software.
Thorsten