Logging Data
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2014 5:15 am
Hello EKM Forum,
I have a couple of questions. I have several EKM water meters going to a few EKM Omnimeter Pulse v.4, then to a "EKM Blink - RS-485 to USB Converter" and then to the computer running Dash. I want to be able to receive the daily e-mails from Dash reporting the water use and also I want to know the monthly water use.
1. I am only at the site with the water meters and computer once or twice a month. I tried to keep the computer and Dash both running so that it can get the pulse counts and send the e-mail. But the computer will sometimes reboot for reasons such as the power going off or because of a software update. I will know that something went wrong when I stop receiving the daily e-mail. If the computer reboots it would need a person on site to re-start Dash and to tell it to start reading data. However, it might take several weeks before I can get over to restart everything. Will I loose all that meter data during the time Dash is not running? Or is it stored in the Omnimeter or the water meters?
2. Dash has a display of monthly water use going back several months. Does this information come from the pulses logged by the Dash software? Or does it come directly from the water meters or Omnimeter somehow? What if the Dash software is not running during the beginning and end of a month? Will the monthly water usage display still be accurate? Is there a way to e-mail the monthly water usage display rather than just the pulse count that I have e-mailed by Dash now?
Thanks!
- marc
I have a couple of questions. I have several EKM water meters going to a few EKM Omnimeter Pulse v.4, then to a "EKM Blink - RS-485 to USB Converter" and then to the computer running Dash. I want to be able to receive the daily e-mails from Dash reporting the water use and also I want to know the monthly water use.
1. I am only at the site with the water meters and computer once or twice a month. I tried to keep the computer and Dash both running so that it can get the pulse counts and send the e-mail. But the computer will sometimes reboot for reasons such as the power going off or because of a software update. I will know that something went wrong when I stop receiving the daily e-mail. If the computer reboots it would need a person on site to re-start Dash and to tell it to start reading data. However, it might take several weeks before I can get over to restart everything. Will I loose all that meter data during the time Dash is not running? Or is it stored in the Omnimeter or the water meters?
2. Dash has a display of monthly water use going back several months. Does this information come from the pulses logged by the Dash software? Or does it come directly from the water meters or Omnimeter somehow? What if the Dash software is not running during the beginning and end of a month? Will the monthly water usage display still be accurate? Is there a way to e-mail the monthly water usage display rather than just the pulse count that I have e-mailed by Dash now?
Thanks!
- marc