I am going to share about how to build a water level sensor for water tanks with a raspberry pi.
Water level sensor raspberry pi.
When water is detected the raspberry pi emails out an alert to a recipient group and calls a phone number list via voip playing a stored wave file with a spoken alert phrase.
Follow the first two guides if you have not.
If you want the video project it is below.
This project is going to help you to understand the working of raspberry pi in detail.
This project is going to help you to understand the working of raspberry pi in detail.
This guide assumes you have a working reef pi setup along with the power controller module.
If you want two levels build two circuits.
Which sensor should i use.
The plus and minus pins go to 3 3 v and ground respectively.
Ultrasonic vs pressure sensor.
This tutorial is to design a water level detector through a raspberry pi board and water level sensor it can detect if the amount of water in container reach the specific level this device collect the relevant data through water level sensor and output the data through raspberry pi.
The 3 3v comes from the raspberry pi s power supply the whole circuit consumes less than 0 5ma and vout is connected to a gpio input pin on the pi.
A high voltage logic 1 3 3v indicates no water and a low voltage logic 0 0v indicates water.
I found this raspberry pi water level meter should answer the question is there water or not but also a level indicator like a measuring cup.
I am going to share how to build a water level sensor for water tanks with a raspberry pi.
We ll be extending our previous power controller build to add an optical water level sensor and a water pump connected via the american dj sr p8 power strip to pour fresh ro di reverse osmosis de ionized water into the aquarium.
So i went for the raspberry pi 3.
An optional bi color led connected in series with 330 ω resistors to gpio 14 and 15 provides feedback.
The schematic shows a raspberry pi a but this set up will work on any pi.
I looked at 2 different types.
There were two types of ultrasonic sensors i.
I deemed the pressure sensor inadequate due to it using an analogue signal 4 20ma and that seemed a little complicated for my first project.
The raspberry pi reads the status of one or two water sensor device s on one or two of its gpio pins.