This Edge driver is for FortrezZ’s water meter device. All the features from the Groovy DTH are now available with this driver. A huge thanks to @Mariano_Colmenarejo for all his invaluable help in making this possible. I learned a lot thanks to him! If you use this driver and run into any issues, please post what you run into.
This driver will not work with any of FortrezZ’s legacy Groovy code, and I do not believe they have any plans to update them for ST’s platform change.
The screenshots below show the data collected and calculated from the meter, and are pretty self explanatory. The “Water Sensor” capability when “wet” is when water is flowing, and “dry” when flow has stopped. This is super handy for when you want an automation to turn off a valve when there’s water flowing and nobody is home or your location mode is in something like “vacation”. This driver also supports the ability to reset meter values, which I highly recommend you do. If you use @Mariano_Colmenarejo’s virtual calendar driver you’ll be able to schedule a reset whenever you want (see screenshot for that below).
Here is the channel invitation:
Here are screenshots, including a multi value version of the main tile. Please note that the detailed view below has changed since this posting due to undocumented changes ST is making on their end that is out of my control. There is more content now for each label, but the “units” are missing. Once these changes settle down and “units” reappear, I will update this posts with new screenshots.
Is there a way to make it not send a leak notification every time water is used? It pops up every time water is used and is not necessary for my situation.
That capability (changing the leak sensor state to “wet”) allows you to get creative with automations, such as detecting water usage while being away or after hours, and that’s something that was provided by FortrezZ in their original DTH from years ago. There are no plans to stop changing that state since many flow meter users use that, but you can disable notifications yourself per device. Here’s how:
In the mobile app, tap on “Menu”
Tap on “Notifications”
Tap on the three horizontal dots on the right
Tap on “Notification settings”
Scroll down to your device
Tap on that device to disable notifications from that specific device
Hi John,
Drivers is working great. The only bug I am experiencing is that the driver is not respecting the High Flow Rate Threshold. If I set the High Flow rate to 60 gallons, I will get the notification as soon as I open the faucet, which should not be the case. I can suppress the notification, but I want my phone to go off I reach a high usage.
@Anthmar Did you really mean 60 gallons for the high rate threshold? That’s a rate value instead of a gallon threshold.
The high flow rate threshold value is only used right now to update two things:
Update the “Highest Meter Flow Rate” value in the mobile app when the previous high value is surpassed.
Creates an event via logcat using the CLI. The event would read “alarmState: <<<< High Flow Detected! >>>>”.
I’ve not further developed the Edge driver to do anything with the highest flow rate. The only notification the driver provides is wet/dry based on when water is flowing so you can use the meter as a water leak sensor. That is why you are notified whenever you open the faucet. There are no notifications for flow rate, gallons last used, total gallons used, highest flow rate, or highest gallons used. Those capabilities are also not yet available for Routines. Only temperature, water sensor, power source, and battery capabilities are available.
I looked over my code again because it’s been a while, but I will get back to adding those other capabilities so that they are available in automations.
Here is a great FAQ tha you should definitely read:
The section titled “2. Using a custom edge driver” gives a step by step process. The next post by JDRoberts in that same FAQ. It’s titled “How to manually switch…:”.
While that post is a year old, it’s spot on. Basically you have two choices right now. One is to install the edge driver to your hub by clicking on the link in my first post, installing the edge driver on your hub, and then manually setting things back up, or still install the edge driver and wait for SmartThings to convert you.
Just bought a FortrezZ water meter. Not quite sure where to get your Edge driver and how to load in my hub.
Thank you for all your help. The UI looks great!
Hi @ptremblay29 , there’s a link in my very first post in this discussion that takes you my drivers. After you click on it, log on to your account/hub when prompted, then click on Enroll. After you do that you will see the available drivers, and then just look for “My FortrezZ Water Meter” and click on Install.
Once you do that the driver will be installed on your hub. After that, join the FMI to SmartThings. I recommend performing the join process close to the hub and then moving it to where you have the meter. After joining, be sure to go into Settings and set your reporting rate threshold (I recommend “1”) and high flow rate threshold.
You also may want to turn off notifications for that device, otherwise you’ll be notified of a “wet” condition every time water is running since “leak sensor” capabilities are included in my driver. You can use the meter as a leak sensor when water is running in Routines, such as notifying you of water running when you’re away from your home and/or your home is in away mode.
I was finally able to get to your driver page.
I installed the driver.
I joined the FMI close to my hub and it included fine.
I disabled the notifications.
Since the driver does not allow a routine with flow rate, I will use the wet sensor status to tell me if the water is simply running.
Did I get it right?
Yup, spot on! I plan on updating the driver to enable all capabilities to be used in automations. I’ve been pretty swamped with work and other activities, but I will eventually update this driver.
