How To Install wmbusmeters on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wmbusmeters on Fedora 34.
What is wmbusmeters
The program receives and decodes C1,T1 or S1 telegrams (using the wireless mbus protocol) to acquire utility meter readings. The readings can then be published using MQTT, curled to a REST api, inserted into a database or stored in a log file.
We can use yum or dnf to install wmbusmeters on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wmbusmeters.
Install wmbusmeters on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install wmbusmeters using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wmbusmeters
Install wmbusmeters on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install wmbusmeters using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install wmbusmeters
How To Uninstall wmbusmeters on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the wmbusmeters package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wmbusmeters
wmbusmeters Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/wmbusmeters.conf
/etc/wmbusmeters.d
/run/wmbusmeters
/usr/bin/wmbusmeters
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/ba449094e7a14c2df62c3f797c3be51c42496b
/usr/lib/systemd/system/wmbusmeters.service
/usr/sbin/wmbusmetersd
/usr/share/doc/wmbusmeters
/usr/share/doc/wmbusmeters/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/wmbusmeters/HowToAddaNewMeter.txt
/usr/share/doc/wmbusmeters/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/wmbusmeters
/usr/share/licenses/wmbusmeters/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/wmbusmeters.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wmbusmeters on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
