Wednesday 5-1 Smarthome Water Monitor

Home Projects

Late last year Larry received a Streamlabs Water Monitor from the Home Depot Seeds program. It is designed to attach to the water line coming into your house and will measure the amount of water you are using, based on parameters that you set it will also notify you if it thinks you may have a water leak. We did not have an easy place to install this on our main waterline so Larry installed it on another line and was able to use and review it. He has wanted to go ahead and install it on our main line but he didn't want to hire a plumber to extend the line and he was a bit worried about doing it himself but he decided to give it a try.

When we built that house Larry had the plumbers install a whole house water filter on the main line coming into the house, this is where he decided to install the Water Monitor. He cut the old parts out of the line and made a list of what he needed. We went to The Home Depot and purchased a couple of connectors, clamps and some 3/4 Pex piping. Larry extended the line coming out of the filter and installed the Water Monitor onto the extended section with zip ties. Then you plug the system into power and calibrate it. Now we can measure how much water goes through the house (versus the irrigation system) and hopefully if there is ever a leak we will get notified. Larry did an outstanding job.

Before the project

    

Cutting off the old connectors

After removing the line

Crimping rings to the line

The water filter system before putting the water monitor on

The finished project

After lunch I worked out for an hour and a half. I used my Wii Fit, Gold's Gym and Just Dance. While I was working out Larry mowed the front and back yards.

Some of the songs I worked out with on Just Dance

Larry rented Avengers: Infinity War from Amazon. We had seen this movie in the theater last year, it is a good moving but the ending could have been better. The new Avengers: End Game is the continuation and started showing in theaters this week. It will be interesting to watch it. Afterwards I watched a couple of episodes of Wire In Blood.