I will try this out at some stage, I really want to automatically record our gas usage vs. time :

Gas meter to CurrentCost to Arduino to Pachube up and running
Filed under: Arduino — john @ 7:35 pm
Built to circuit and connected it all up. Bluetacked reed switch to meter and board + cc dev board + 2 AA batteries into small container.

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