wmbusmeters | wireless mbus protocol to acquire utility meter readings

Building and installing from source is easy and recommended since the development progresses quickly. First remove the wmbus dongle (im871a,amb8465,cul,rc1180) or the generic rtlsdr dongle (RTL2832U) from your computer. Then do:. ./configure; make; sudo make install will install wmbusmeters as a daemon. Check the contents of your /etc/wmbusmeters.conf file, assuming it has device=auto:t1 and you are using a im871a,amb8465,rc1180 or cul device, then you can now start the daemon with sudo systemctl start wmbusmeters or you can try it from the command line wmbusmeters auto:t1. Wmbusmeters will scan for wmbus devices every few seconds and detect whenever a device is plugged in or removed. To have the wmbusmeters daemon start automatically when the computer boots do: sudo systemctl enable wmbusmeters. You can trigger a reload of the config files with sudo killall -HUP wmbusmetersd. (Note! make install only works for GNU/Linux. For MacOSX try to start wmbusmetersd /tmp/thepidfile from a script instead.). Check the config file /etc/wmbusmeters.conf and edit the device. For example: auto:c1 or im871a:c1,t1 or im871a[457200101056]:t1 or /dev/ttyUSB2:amb8465:c1,t1. Adding a device like auto or im871a will trigger an automatic probe of all serial ttys to auto find or to find on which tty the im871a resides. If you specify a full device path like /dev/ttyUSB0:im871a:c1 or rtlwmbus or rtl433 then it will not probe the serial devices. If you must be really sure that it will not probe something you can add donotprobe=/dev/ttyUSB0 or donotprobe=all. You can specify combinations like: device=rc1180:t1 device=auto:c1 to set the rc1180 dongle to t1 but any other auto-detected dongle to c1. Then add a meter file in /etc/wmbusmeters.d/MyTapWater. Meter driver detection will be automatic. You can also provide an explicit driver name with: driver=multical21:c1 or explicitly state that driver detection is automatic: driver=auto. Now plugin your wmbus dongle. Wmbusmeters should start automatically, check with tail -f /var/log/syslog and tail -f /var/log/wmbusmeters/wmbusmeters.log (If you are using an rtlsdr dongle, then make sure that either the binaries /usr/bin/rtl_sdr and /usr/bin/rtl_wmbus exists and are executable. Or that the executable rtl_sdr/rtl_wmbus binaries exists inside the same directory as the wmbusmeters executable. If not you will see the error message (rtlwmbus) error: when starting as daemon, wmbusmeters looked for .../rtl_wmbus and /usr/bin/rtl_wmbus, but found neither! and the daemon will refuse to start.). The latest reading of the meter can also be found here: /var/log/wmbusmeters/meter_readings/MyTapWater. You can use several ids using id=1111111,2222222,3333333 or you can listen to all meters of a certain type id=* or you can suffix with star id=8765* to match all meters with a given prefix. If you supply at least one positive match rule, then you can add negative match rules as well. For example id=*,!2222* which will match all meter ids, except those that begin with 2222.