TCRT5000 .... ??

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Hi Fellow Pimatic Enthusiasts…

I bought this at dx.com:

http://www.dx.com/p/tcrt5000-black-and-white-line-tracking-sensor-module-for-smart-car-140732#.V-Jl4ih952Q

Is there anything I can do with this thing in Pimatic? I hoped I could use it as an analog reader for my energy-meter, but don’t know how to do this in Pimatic.

maybe you should get in contact with @incmve since he has done something like that already as it seems … could be that there are some new findings

https://forum.pimatic.org/topic/771/read-out-water-energy-consumption/
https://www.maredana.nl/kwh-meter-uitlezen-met-een-arduino-en-tcrt5000/
https://github.com/incmve/kWh

and use theforum search …
https://forum.pimatic.org/search/tcrt5000?in=titlesposts

I think this is the sensor. If you want to connect to ESP8266. Use ESPEasy as software. Sent data to Pimatic through MQTT protocol or directly to Pimatic API.
Device sends Count, Total and Time. But I do not know how to handle data in Pimatic.

Hmm, got some time to check again. I seemed to have bought a Line Tracking Sensor, that can Identify Black and White. I think I cannot use this thing to check the wheel of my energy meter.

If you bought a tcrt5000 it should work.
the one you bought has a digital output (0 or 1), I don’t think the tiny bar on your energy meter is enough to trigger it.
I bought the analog version, the analog value is different when the bar crosses the sensor.
for more info see https://www.maredana.nl/kwh-meter-uitlezen-met-een-arduino-en-tcrt5000/
or
https://juerd.nl/site.plp/kwh