sprinklers_pi – An alternative sprinkler control program

Looks great – does it support a master valve?

Thanks for sharing! The best part about about Raspberry Pi’s and the OpenSprinkler is that it almost exclusively attracts DIYers, so we’ll have a lot of diverse solutions available. How does your system utilize the wunderground data (e.g., what is it pulling down and in what way does it alter the watering schedule)?

First of all, awesome work! I am trying to get started with this but unfortunately can’t seem to. Here is what I have done and where I am:

I don’t have a Raspberry Pi so I am just compiling on my MBP. I commented out all the digitWrite calls, OUTPUT and pushpin call. I also commented the reboot call. I removed the -lwiringPi in the Makefile, as well. After all of this it compiled successfully:

$ make

Building target: sprinklers_pi

g++  -o "sprinklers_pi" build/Event.o build/Logging.o build/Weather.o build/core.o build/port.o build/settings.o build/sprinklers_pi.o build/sysreset.o build/web.o -lsqlite3

Finished building target: sprinklers_pi

After that I ran the program and it seems to run fine:

$ ./sprinklers_pi

2013/07/25 19:19:29 Starting v1.0.1..

2013/07/25 19:19:29 Turning Off All Zones

2013/07/25 19:19:29 Listening on Port 8080

2013/07/25 19:19:29 Turning Off All Zones

2013/07/25 19:19:32 Got a client

2013/07/25 19:19:32 Page:

2013/07/25 19:19:32 Serving Page: /web/index.htm

2013/07/25 19:19:32 Got a client

2013/07/25 19:19:32 Page:favicon.ico

2013/07/25 19:19:32 Serving Page: /web/favicon.ico

As you can see, it even sees connections coming in! However, all I get in the browser is: “NOT FOUND”

Any advice? I tried changing permissions and also running as sudo.

Update: I understand this environment is very unique and I have VERY little experience with C and portability. With that said, I am going to try this on Debian instead since that is a closer environment it might work better.

Update 2: Same thing with my Debian 7 box.

Update 3: Figured out it is checking absolute path so I moved /web there and it works now.

Update 4: Haha we went with the same Day/Interval switch 😛

Update 5: In case anyone cares I changed web.cpp so the prefix is web/ not /web/ and changed the appropriate memcpy length.

Is there a line in the code that I need to change for the pins? Like in the python pi interval program, I have to change a line in the code for the program to know the difference between pi rev 1 and pi rev 2 for the shift register.

Edit I found it in core.cpp. Is this the only place where the pins are defined?

Thanks so much for this version. I’ve been fighting for days to get the python version going, without success. I loaded this in about an hour. Wow.

I do have a question, however. I have a zone extension box hooked into my RPi but the the web interface is only showing 7 zones. Should it automagically show the extension box? Do I have to manually add the extensions?

One other question, using your software, how do I adjust for my rain sensor?

I am also wondering what I need to do to get the Wunderground IP, but I’ll search elsewhere for that.

Thanks for all your work on this. IT’s amazing. Things like this are essential if we are to leave a healthy environment for our kids.

Thanks all for your help and thoughts!

Regarding the Wunderground IP, that’s perfect.

Regarding the rain sensor, I’ll get it going. Between your suggestions and that of salbahra, I can make it happen. It was just a difference I noticed between the Python version and your C version.

About the zones, this is surprising given that there is an expansion module. When you note that there’s not currently support for more than 7 zones, do you mean with your c version, or with the Python version as well? How about the Arduino version of OpenSprinkler?

In any case, if it can be programmed, I’m certainly willing to help test. I’m working on getting this all set up in the garage. It’s really pretty cool. Let me know how I can help.

Mike

I’ll contribute.