PhloMetricDownloads
The PhloMetric Gateway POSTs readings to a small Windows ingest service that writes them into a local MySQL database. You need three things on the PC that will host the database: the ingest service installer, the MySQL schema script that sets up its database and login, and the 32-bit MySQL Unicode ODBC driver it talks to MySQL through.
Follow the setup checklist below in order: install MySQL, run the schema script, install the 32-bit ODBC driver, then the ingest service. Windows is the only supported host for the ingest service today.
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PhloMetric Water Ingest Service
Windows service that listens on TCP 41290 for batched JSON from the Gateway and writes clients, readings, and events into your phoa_water MySQL database. Installs as an auto-start service, adds its own firewall rule, and prompts once for your MySQL connection details.
MySQL schema script
A single SQL script that creates the phoa_water database, the three tables the ingest service writes (clients, readings, events), and the application account the service logs in with. Run it once against your MySQL 8 server, as an administrator (e.g. root), before installing the ingest service:
mysql -u root -p < schema_phoa_water.sql
MySQL Connector/ODBC 8.0 (32-bit)
The ingest service connects to MySQL through ODBC. It expects the driver registered as MySQL ODBC 8.0 Unicode Driver in the 32-bit ODBC view. Install this before the ingest service. After installing, you can confirm the driver appears under the Drivers tab of C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe (the 32-bit ODBC Data Source Administrator).
Node User Manual (PDF)
End-user manual for the PhloMetric Water Meter Node, firmware 2.13.15: first connection and WiFi setup, picking your default meter, the dashboard, the privacy model and debug mode, the device passwords, email reports, the on-demand Gateway Test (Send Meter Data / Ping Gateway), working with a Gateway, firmware updates, the HTTP API, and troubleshooting.
Gateway User Manual (PDF)
End-user manual for the PhloMetric Water Gateway, firmware 0.1.81: first connection, joining your network with optional fixed/static IP, the client roster (including forgetting retired nodes), managing Nodes over the mesh (queries, protocol and default-meter changes, reboot, on-demand per-node volume), recording to the database via the ingest service, the consolidated By-Node email report with the report-node filter and leak & break alerts, the device passwords, firmware updates, the HTTP API, and troubleshooting.
Setup checklist
On the PC that will host the database (the same machine the Gateway uploads to):
- Install MySQL Server 8 if it isn't already present.
- Run the schema script as an administrator:
mysql -u root -p < schema_phoa_water.sql. This creates thephoa_waterdatabase, its tables, and thephoa_waterlogin. - Run
mysql-connector-odbc-8.0.30-win32.msiand complete the default install. - Run
phoa_ingest_setup.exeas Administrator. The MySQL user (phoa_water), password, database (phoa_water), and bind port (41290) are pre-filled to match the schema script, so you can accept the defaults. - In the Gateway's
/setuppage, set the Database Host to this PC's LAN IP and port 41290, and enable Record to Database. - Confirm readings are landing: the service log lives at
C:\ProgramData\PHOA\IngestService\service.log, andhttp://localhost:41290/api/healthreturns{"ok":true}.
Verify each download against the SHA-256 above before running it. In PowerShell: Get-FileHash .\phoa_ingest_setup.exe -Algorithm SHA256.
Where this fits
The ingest service is the last hop in the chain: meter → Node → Gateway → ingest service → MySQL. If you're running a single standalone Node with no Gateway, you don't need any of this; the Node keeps its own readings and emails them directly. The ingest service only matters when a Gateway is archiving a whole site's readings to a central database.
API documentation
Both devices expose a small HTTP API on port 80 of their LAN IP. The full endpoint reference lives on each device page; machine-readable specs are linked below for scripting and agents.