dialeye2mqtt

Dockerized dialEye with MQTT broker interface.

Use dialEye to read rotary utility meter dials using image recognition.

Kudos to:

• olammi for the awesome dialEye application.
• juhovan for dialEye python3 porting.

Environament variables

See common environment variables from MQTT-Framework.

Variable	Default	Descrition
CFG_APP_NAME	dialeye2mqtt	Name of the app.
CFG_IMAGE_URL		Url where to fetch image of the meter.
CFG_CONF_FILE	/conf/dialEye.conf	Path for dialEye.conf
CFG_DATA_FILE	/data/data.txt	Path for data file
CFG_TIMEOUT	5	Timeout for dialEye command.
CFG_M3_INIT_VALUE	0	Initialization value for m3. Used when data file doesn't exists yet.

Example docker-compose.yaml

version: "3.5"

services:
  dialeye2mqtt:
    container_name: dialeye2mqtt
    image: paulianttila/dialeye2mqtt:2.0.0
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - CFG_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG
      - CFG_MQTT_BROKER_URL=127.0.0.1
      - CFG_MQTT_BROKER_PORT=1883
      - CFG_IMAGE_URL=<url>
    volumes:
      - ./dialEye.conf:/conf/dialEye.conf:ro
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "http://localhost:5000/healthy"]
      interval: 60s
      timeout: 3s
      start_period: 5s
      retries: 3

Configure dialEye

See details from dialEye howto.

Calibration image

Image for current calibration is available via index.html page with current consumption value.