A very clever way of using a door sensor to accumulate data ! Well Done !

This is really awesome. Was hesitant to build the pcb edition due to the fact that I don't have power available where I want the meter and I haven't built anything 18650 powered. and/or solar powered, or similar before. But being able to place this anywhere I got zigbee coverage is just a home run. The battery life in the Aqara sensors is amazing. Lasts 2 years, no problem. Built one meter already and the next one is being printed at the moment. Thanks a lot!

Love it, printing the parts now!

Finally an affordable smart rain gauge, amazing work!

Done and built! It hasn't rained yet however everything went together really well. One thing I noticed is if the device becomes unavailable, when it comes back online it counts a closed signal in the history, I found subtracting the total 'unavailable' states from the sensor's history from the total on/off count fixed this problem. Overall a very fun project, many thanks for the design!

Great idea, and shared with the community. What a legend this guy is. +1 sub

So Smart dude love these types of videos with good engineering! love to see it. can't wait for you to get more subscribers, i wanna see what you do next!!!!

Supernice Soulution ! Thank you !

Awesome even better solution. Glad I haven't printed out yet

Love your work, dude. Keep it up, :) genius idea :)

Thank you sir 🙏✨

Hi, thanks so much for this great project. I built it the last 2 days and it seems to run perfectly. I am still struggeling a bit with the HA code but I am confident I will fix it. Thanks again. Cheers

Nice my friend

thank you for this. brilliant. just one question.. if i want to implement a boolean to find out if it is currently raining, what is the best way to approach it with this as well?

Hi, very well done, I'm building this as we speak, and I wonder.. has anyone already designed a printable mounting bracket?

Amazing project! Really easy to follow and largely detailed I had a question regarding the filament type, I used PETG as advised but my feeling is that the funnel is too rough/sticky and tends too form large droplets instead of letting the water fall directly Any feedback on this ? Another small question, where is it possible to easily find 5mL pipette for calibration?

Thanks for the amazing video! Printing parts right now. I need to figure out how to change to code for "inches of rain" instead. Does anyone know the easiest way to get the calculations to work with inches?

Great idea can you buy it fully built currently don't have a 3d printer

what if one wants it in mm instead of L/m2 ? :) Great video, printing it right away. !

Bro good job , please create more videos + more shorts , create simpler and fun stuff and some tutorials to grow your channel very faster , is am Rostam Thank you ❤

The gauge works well the 3D print is very well designed top job thank you 😊 I have used your yaml code. The only problem I have is that in HA after the 24hour period the flip counter will not reset to zero and each new 24hr (or any period set) will not start from zero and starts with 1 flip count (.5mm rain) Any idea how I can reset the counter to zero at the end of each 24hours period (or any period set) New to HA and yaml a lot to learn :-) Cheers

great idea on how to "misuse" that sensor! i guess it's time to get some filament now..

Hi, anywhere i can download the files, they look amazing. the signing up on your home page does not seem to to do the trick any longer?

Great idea and tutorial! Thanks!!! I adapted it slightly to work with an IKEA PARASOLL door sensor, driven by a AAA-battery. However, the platform + template sensors + the mini-graph card makes it display rainfall per rolling 24 hour period, so right now it's from 22:10 today back to 22:10 yesterday. That makes rainfall/day decrease during the day when it stopps raining... Is it possible to make it per day instead (00:00-23:59) and display last 7 or 14 days? I also tried to make an extra platform+template sensor to display per hour, but now when it has not been raining for about 8 hours, it shows 0.5mm/h for last 8 hours..and I don't understand why... Made it like this: - platform: history_stats name: "Regn Contact Flips/Dry_hour" entity_id: binary_sensor.regn_contact state: "off" type: count start: "{{ now() - timedelta(hours=1)}}" end: "{{ now() }}" - platform: history_stats name: "Regn Contact Flips/Wet_hour" entity_id: binary_sensor.regn_contact state: "on" type: count start: "{{ now() - timedelta(hours=1)}}" end: "{{ now() }}" - sensor: - name: Rainfall [hour] state_class: measurement unique_id: rainfall_hour unit_of_measurement: mm icon: mdi:weather-pouring state: >- {% set count = (states('sensor.regn_contact_flips_dry_hour') | int(0)) + (states('sensor.regn_contact_flips_wet_hour') | int(0)) %} {% set mm = count * 0.52615 %} {% if count >= 0 %} {{ mm|round(1, 'floor') }} {% endif %} And a corresponding mini-graph-card like this: type: custom:mini-graph-card icon: mdi:weather-rainy name: Regn/timme aggregate_func: max hours_to_show: 24 group_by: hour show: graph: bar fill: true icon: false color_thresholds: - value: 50 color: '#8a111e' - value: 25 color: '#c7311c' - value: 10 color: '#fc5a43' - value: 4 color: '#fc8582' - value: 2 color: '#fbab3e' - value: 1 color: '#ebf438' - value: 0.5 color: '#79cf3f' - value: 0.2 color: '#24cbcc' - value: 0 color: '#3296de' entities: - entity: sensor.rainfall_hour state_adaptive_color: false Why does this report 0.5mm/h when it has not been raining and the bucket has not moved? Anyone who knows/understands and can explain to me?

I built your zigbee rain guage. First, it's great. Thank you for creating such a cool design. However, I'm having one issue with the code. The History Stats "flips/on" / "flip/off" sensor seems to count the first state in the 24 hour time period. Like, if it has not rained at all, and the contact sensor was "off" the whole time, History Stats counts that as "off", and the template sensor shows ".5mm". Is this how it's worked for you as well? How do I get around this? Thank you for any help you can offer.

one question: where is the sensor: "it is raining now" in both of these devices? I can only see "how much it rained for last...hours/days" - what am I missing?

Great Project! I got 2 questions: - Can we have the build as .STL files aswell, Cura cannot read f3d and I do not have Autodesk Fusion 360? - What is the length of the 3mm screws used?

Where can I buy that door sensor? And is that available here in Philippines?

Hi, thanks so much. This is awesome. Any idea when you going to update the home assistant info on you website? It currently says "Integration with Home Assistant (in progress)"

Yes, finally got it working after an restart off HA so al sensor are created and active. Great work!! Any change you will make an zigbee anemometer?

I saw that all comercial products are white and i was thinking what will happen in the colder months when the water freezes? Will a black funnel help maybe a little? In the summer I guess it will speed up the evaporation, hmm. And, I only have a spool of black PETG right now, oh and a "wet" glow in the dark white PLA.

I have an issue that every day starts with a different amount of rain?

I really love the design, have printed it and set it up, work like a charm, grate work!! 😃 But one question, is it possible to manually reset the rainfall sensor in HA? Have been testing it on my desk so much so now it have rained like 100mm 😝

I just wish you would be more beginner friendly on HA integration. I cant get to display on my HA.

Hi Sebastian :) First of all - very great project - you are a genius;) BUT Are you sure your calculation method Is correct? I have calibrated mine with 5 ml per bucket side. When I pour 1 liter of water through the funnel it says roughly 180 mm rain. BUT - should 1 liter not give 1mm rain ??

Great project I can't wait to build, but the .3mf files I donated for are for the PCB version I think (can't see this version in your store?). I don't use Fusion360 so I'm just looking for stl/3mf files for this project. Thanks.

Question, why doesn't reset the rain meter to 0mm at the end of the day. Now every day starts with 0.5mm of rain. comperred my code several times but can't find where it goes wrong. When I stop de video I see one difference in your code compared to the code shared in the tutorial. For template > sensor your shared code says "state_class: measurement" but the video says "state_class: total_increasing" but none of these seem to do the job right. Any help would really be appreciated.

Any chance for the HomeAssistant tutorial? Seems like the project page has it missing at the moment.

Is there a way to increase the resolution, like a smaller tipping bucket? 0.5 mm rain per tip is a bit high for my needs.

For those who have printed the gauge, what material did you use and how has it held up? I have a new roll of white PLA+ on the shelf but afraid it won't weather as well as PETG. I've haven't printed PETG yet but would rather do it from the start if necessary. Thanks.

Build your great project but have a problem with HA. When i flip the gauge up and down i see the Aquare sensor doing Open/Closed without any problems every time, no matter how fast i do it. But the Flip/on and Flip/off sensor i have to do it very slow or it missing some. Rainfall mm is only counting from Closed state to Open state. Use the code you provide here and also check it with the code in the movie. Cant find why it is not working as it should be.

Is there any chance to get stl files for that? I don't use Fusion3d.

Sadley the files do not arrive from your Website to this project

Missing the HA code.