AI-on-the-edge-device VS home-assistant-glow

This is what I am using for this exact purpose: https://github.com/jomjol/AI-on-the-edge-device

Anyway, in case decoding the radio traffic gets you nowhere, this works reasonably well.

- https://jomjol.github.io/AI-on-the-edge-device-docs/

I was looking for a way to collect readings of our water clock and stumbled upon this (https://github.com/jomjol/AI-on-the-edge-device) interesting hw/sw project to aquire data from old measuring devices (water, power, gas,...) with tflite and ocr.

I think this would be better https://github.com/jomjol/AI-on-the-edge-device. It's esp camera with ai detection for water meters, I use it also as monitoring for electricity.. the new firmware has HA support over mqtt. It's more diy but once you set it up it works like a charm.

Seconding this. I was able to just run it with docker compose on a cheap mini PC and it chugs away happily, interfacing with all manner of devices (Phillips/Lifx/IKEA/Airpurifier/Bunnings brands). Only gets tricky to set up devices when you're dealing with some hostile cloud based gadget that doesn't want to play nice.

Unbelievable it can all be controlled offline using Siri on an iPhone, or other voice assistants.

It can even display your electricity consumption by counting the LED pulses on your smart electricity meter that fires every 1000th of a kw/h, only takes a cheap ESP32 and a photodiode: https://github.com/klaasnicolaas/home-assistant-glow

Such a wonderful project.

You want to build this https://github.com/klaasnicolaas/home-assistant-glow

Alternatively if you want to measure your overall energy consumption and aren't too worried what is generating the load, then I would suggest looking into the Home Assistant Glow project on github (https://github.com/klaasnicolaas/home-assistant-glow) - assuming you have a suitable electricity meter - for a couple of pounds you can put together a light sensitive diode and an ESP8266 (or similar) to create a device to sit over the flashing light on the meter to calculate usage. I have found it pretty accurate - it seems to match my billed usage pretty closely (within 3-5kw per month).

Check out Home Assistant Glow for a similar DIY device.

If folks want to make one of these theirselves (themselves? whatever), the "home assistant glow" project makes it pretty straightforward: https://github.com/klaasnicolaas/home-assistant-glow (I can never find the link, so I might as well drop it here). It uses ESPHome + a config file + a photo-diode thingy. It's more or less the same thing with a photoresistor. The server-side works easiest with Home Assistant, but you can access the device on its own too.

I have two questions: I already have my DIY MultiSensor hardware that was built around an ESP8266. It's main functionality is to count power pulses from my power meter via an LDR, and the hardware seems to run fine. I am aware of the Glow project, https://github.com/klaasnicolaas/home-assistant-glow , but for some reason this didn't play well with my self-created hardware. Also, I do think that my measure algorithm has a slight advantage, but that's not the point here :)