Pull up lxterminal and run the following:
cd /var/www/python
python flow_monitor.py
python flow_monitor.py
Now make a pour, on the lxterminal you should see it recording a pour. If you don’t then there is something wrong with the way you have your flow meter wiring setup, please review. If you DO see it make a pour and the screen updates then this means that when your pi restarts this script is not running automatically so please check your /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart file and add the following AFTER the line for the browser
@/usr/bin/python /var/www/python/flow_monitor.py &
