Hi,
I’ve successfully connected a bilge pump and high level flow switch (via an opto isolator) to my Cerbo. I’m able to set them up as devices and see their state on the Cerbo’s display.
What I’d like to be able to do it track the pump’s daily run times, and number of cycles plus send an alert if the pump has run continuously for more that a configurable time period.
I’ve built (with a bit of AI help) a NodeRed flow that exposes that data to SignalK quite successfully. I’ve also posted it back to VRM but there isn’t really a suitable object or data type to use. I’m currently loading the data into a Meteo object, which charts nicely but is less than clear in VRM where I appear to have a steadily rising temperature that crashes to freezing every day at midnight…
I guess there are two possible solutions: a configurable user data object in VRM, where we could set the labels; or having VRM objects for at least each of the predefined data type for the digital input. Of course I might also have missed something and it’s all there waiting for me!
Thanks for all the work on VRM and Venus OS - I’m very impressed at how much is possible using this kit.