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+#Blinkmeter
+
+Electricity meter blink counter nodemcu lua code for ESP8266.
+
+## What it does:
+- Upon starting it establishes connection to provided wifi ssid
+- It counts electricity meter flashes and stores them in counter variable
+- It opens a socket and exposes counter.
+- Once prometheus scrapes the value, counter gets reset to 0.
+
+## Installation
+
+### Download nodemcu firmware
+- I use this site to build custom nodemcu firmware: [nodency-build,com](https://nodemcu-build.com)
+
+### Flash your ESP8266 controller
+```bash $ esptool.py --port /dev/ttyUSB0 --baud 115200 write_flash --flash_size=detect 0 /path/to/nodemcu.bin ```
+
+### Download ESPlorer
+- You can get it at [Esplorer site](https://esp8266.ru/esplorer/)
+- Extract and launch with java 1.7+ ```bash $ java -jar ESPlorer.jar```
+
+### Upload lua files
+- move location_example.lua to location.lua and change to your ssid/psk
+- upload files through esplorer.