2020-03-10, 09:17 PM
(2020-03-10, 08:23 PM)tkurki Wrote:Quote:Hi guys. Rather than lashing out a fortune for a LPG sensing system, I want to add a couple of MQ6 sensors to my OP installation and connect them through SigKsens via an ESP8266. My plan is to get a notification and and an alarm through Node Red/Watchdog if gas level exceeds a certain level. Here to the newbie question: As I understand it Signal K has a loong list of predefined http://signalk.org/specification/1.0.0/d...ranch.html Do I simply assign the sensor as/ vessels/<RegExp>/sensors/<RegExp>/name for instance /vessels/sensors/LPG/Pentry?
All the data you ever get is coming from sensor of one kind or another - that does not add anything of value to the path, so don't put it there.
See https://signalk.org/specification/1.4.0/...fuelregexp
so
/vessels/<RegExp>/tanks/fuel/<RegExp>/type should be 'lpg'
and then use paths like
/vessels/<RegExp>/tanks/fuel/<RegExp>/pressure
/vessels/<RegExp>/tanks/fuel/<RegExp>/currentLevel
As usual - I guess my lack of competence shine through in my inability to clearly state the purpose, but I am using a "sniffer", a MQ-6 sensor to see if there is a gas leak. In order to get visual and audio alarm, I'd like to convert the value from this into SignalK. It is in other words not a matter of Lpg level.