The flip side of this is when you're on vacation and your small-town municipal office calls you and asks if you're filling a pool, as their system has detected

The flip side of this is when you're on vacation and your small-town municipal office calls you and asks if you're filling a pool, as their system has detected and flagged a constant usage over a XX hour period. In my case it was the toilet I flushed right before we left for vacation. It had been running since we left. Their call meant that I could call a family member to go over to our house and find the source of the issue, saving us hundreds of dollars in water usage. It also caused me to start digging into the communications protocol for our electric and water meters [1]. Unfortunately a recent software upgrade has enabled encryption by default on the electric meter transmissions, so I'm only able to decode water meter now, and I'm not sure how long that will last. Edit: Here's the screenshot of usage data they sent me when I inquired [2]. The dropoff on 7/25 is when our family member shut off water to the running toilet. [1] https://github.com/shaunhey/ea_receiver https://github.com/shaunhey/ea_receiver [2] https://ibb.co/dZ2Otv https://ibb.co/dZ2Otv