There are several solutions for this kind of water reading but all are lacking something for my needs.

I've been seeking for a solution which would combine best parts of different projects:

1. https://github.com/ecsfang/WaterMeter

• accuracy of 0,125 litres by reading only 1 liter dial with 8 trigger points. Easy and this data would be sufficient combined with time stamps.

2. https://github.com/jomjol/water-meter-measurement-system

• ESP32-CAM as camera and server running the OCR would be a lot cheaper than raspberry system. Usually someone building these have the server and really I wouldn't have any other needs for the Raspberry.
• Also this could be integrated ESPHome etc.? So it would be out of the box type design for ie. Home Assistant...

3. https://olammi.iki.fi/sw/dialEye/

• Possibility to define any IP web camera as source

But I'm not any good at programming or coding... I'm not even sure if I describe my wishes correctly, please pardon me.

Would I find someone interested enough to combine these three solutions?

TL;DR water meter solution development request:

• 1 liter dial OCR with 8 trigger points
• ESP to server and server OCR software (prefer Ubuntu systems)
• MQTT publish and/or Home assistant compatibility via ESPhome or similar systems?

Willing to throw in a coffee/beer or two for this matter...

Regards, Matti