They are not like the US meters, but interesting. BTW, Google Translate works fine on the text and helps a lot.
OTOH, it is hard to see the benefit of such meters to the utility, because the reader person still has to walk house-to-house. -John ===================== > In message <[email protected]>, "William > H. Fi > te" writes: > > OK, can we just add a bit of postive here ? > > If your meter is anything like the ones we have over here, they have > a two-way optical port marked "DLMS", "IEC-62056-21" or similar. > > Hook up a IR-LED and IR-Photodiode to your serial port, open a > terminal program with 300,7,EVEN,1 and send > > / ? ! CR NL > > And marvel at all the data it spews back. > > Here is a python class which does the comms for you: > > https://github.com/bsdphk/PyDLMS > > Here is a blog entry in Danish about it: > > http://ing.dk/artikel/120524-tal-med-din-elmaaler-og-ingenioeren > > Enjoy... > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by > incompetence. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
