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Water Pump ESP-01 Timer Switch
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by Matthew Ford 3rd June 2024 (originally posted 27th
May 2024)
© Forward Computing and Control Pty. Ltd. NSW
Australia
All rights reserved.
This project builds on the ESP-01
Timer Switch to automate the pumping of water for the house
supply.
The water supply for a suburb of Delhi, India, is only
available between 2am and 3am each day and so the water needs to be
pumped up into a home tank, ~7m above ground level, to supply water
for the following day. The situation is complicated by the fact that
i) the water is not always available at exactly 2am and ii) the
supply is some 1.5 m under concrete, below the pump.
The current process is to wake up at 2am each day and turn the pump on. Then check after 10min that water is pumping. That is, is there is a water supply and the pump has sucked up water from main. If there is no water after 10mins, turn the pump off for 15min and try again. There is a float switch on tank to turn the pump off once the tank is full.
The existing control system is shown below (pdf)
When the remote controlled (RF) switch is operated, the pump runs until the water tank is full.
This project adds the ESP-01 Timer Switch and a water sensor to automate the running / stopping of the pump to fill the water tank.
In this system, the pump is enabled between 2am and 3am as set by the Timer Switch. The modified code in the ESP01 Timer Switch runs the pump for 10mins and then checks that water sensors has detected water in the inlet pipe to the pump. If no water is detected then the code turns the pump off for 15mins and tries again.
The revised system is shown below (pdf).
A new front web page gives the current status of the system and is refreshed every 5secs.
The timer's previous index.html is now timer.html and is only updated once every 2mins
Parts as listed in ESP-01 Timer Switch with the additional parts
Water sensor – XKC-Y25 NPN Intelligent Non-Contact Liquid Water Level Sensor ~ Indian Rupee 549.
See ESP-01 Timer Switch – Programming the ESP-01S or ESP-01 for how to setup the programming system. The same set of libraries is used for both the projects.
The code for this version of the timer switch with the water sensor and pump cycling is in ESP8266_waterPump_timer.zip. That code has the Delhi timezone set as the default. The libraries needed are the same as the ESP-01 Timer Switch and are contained in this libraries.zip
Compile and upload the sketch to the ESP-01 using the under
“Erase Flash” select “All Flash Contents”
option and then upload the
webpages with the ESP8266 LittleFS Data Upload option.
Remember
to close the Arduino Serial Monitor if it is open, before using
ESP8266 LittleFS Data Upload, otherwise the upload can fail.
See the ESP-01 Timer Switch for how to connect to your WiFi network and how to set your time zone.
The
RX pin on the ESP-01 is used as an input as described in ESP-01
and ESP-01S How program and use the Pins and Leds This still
leaves the TX pin available to output debug messages when connected
to the programmer.
This particular Water Sensor model has an
open-collector (NPN) output and so does not need any level
translation to connect to the 3V3 ESP-01 RX input.
The project is an extension of the ESP-01
Timer Switch which adds a water sensor input and code to cycle
the water pump if water is not available. This automates what is
otherwise a tiring job needing to be performed at 2am every morning
of
turning the pump on and checking after 10min that water is
pumping. If not turning the pump off for 15mins and trying again.
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