Water detection sensors using Arduino or Raspberry pi

[alphatech]

Hi,
Tom Christian wrote long time ago a water sensor detection for a sump pump. I bought these sensors, I was wondering if they can be connected with Raspberry Pi or arduino.
https://www.amazon.com/uxcell-Horizo...er+level+float

http://sage-software.com/index.php/h...jects/47-sump-
pump-monitor

Thanks,
Aldo

[mrhappy]

They are float sensors so often have a magnet in the float and a reed switch encapsulated in the fixed bit. They are just like any other switch and can be connected to Arduino/RPi inputs or indeed anything else that accepts a switch input.

[alphatech]

Thanks MrHappy. The sensors that I have purchase years back are as the Amazon link below. I forgot to mention that I have very limited knowledge of either Raspberry Pi or Arduino, I have few Raspberry PI I around that I would like to use. This project is mostly to get my feet wet with them but I do not know where to start. This is more of a fun project that I would like all of your input.

[mrhappy]

Thanks MrHappy. The sensors that I have purchase years back are as the Amazon link below. I forgot to mention that I have very limited knowledge of either Raspberry Pi or Arduino, I have few Raspberry PI I around that I would like to use. This project is mostly to get my feet wet with them but I do not know where to start. This is more of a fun project that I would like all of your input.

If you are monitoring a tank with any sort of turbulence that might have waves just be mindful of frequent on/off signals if the flow makes the sensor head bob up and down. If you are monitoring a fairly still tank then shouldn't be as much of an issue.

There really is nothing to them, just wire it to a digital input with an appropriate resistor and then you will get the input into either a Pi or Arduino (plenty of GPIO pins on either).

The circuit is no different to this - https://jcastellssala.com/2013/06/10.../rpi_led_bb-2/ just with the button replaced with your switch.

How you get that signal into HS is then up to you, Spud has a Pi plugin or you could write a little bit of python code to send it into HS.

[alphatech]

Thanks, that is a great start, very much appreciated.

Aldo

[Black Cat]

Have a look at this, it is Ardunio based. Depending on where you live you might be able to get a ZUNO, otherwise you have the base for the sensor.

http://z-uno.z-wave.me/examples/waterlevel/