Tom M0LTE M0LTE

Goal

Read water consumption data from my Thames Water meter, so that I can feed it into Home Assistant, my smart home system of choice, for consumption monitoring.

Approaches

Read it via RF

This is most desirable; it's already smart.

	# credit https://github.com/JeffWDH/bm6-battery-monitor/blob/39bb89a095f0714d84d05e595099f28ec44647fe/ESPHome/bm6.yaml

	# first you need to find the BLE mac address of the BM6:
	esp32_ble_tracker:
	text_sensor:
	- platform: ble_scanner
	name: "BLE Devices Scanner"
	# read off the mac address in the esphome logs. Device name is just BM6

	# then you can configure as follows:

	nmcli con add con-name WiFi ifname wlan0 type wifi ssid foonet
	nmcli con modify WiFi wifi-sec.key-mgmt wpa-psk
	nmcli con modify WiFi wifi-sec.psk myownpassword
	nmcli con up WiFi