Problems with Weather Updates ET method

Im having similar trouble. I set my weather adjustment to ET a couple weeks ago when this update came out. My watering percentage was initially set to 137% and has not changed sense. While that setting is decent for this time of year, I’d assume it would change a little. We’ve had some days of heavy rain, and some really hot days.

I did a complete factory reset and re-programmed everything as Phil suggested. That fixed the issue for me and ET is now working. Updates every morning.

I suspect this may have to do with weather adjustment option not being correct. To check that variable, you can use either of the following method:
1. access your controller in a web browser, then open the browser’s ‘developer tools’ panel (in Chrome, this would be under menu More Tools -> Developer Tools), turn on the ‘Network’ tab, refresh the page, then check the result of the ‘ja’ query.

2. alternatively, you can also directly type in:
http://x.x.x.x/ja?pw=yyy
where x.x.x.x is your OpenSprinkler’s IP address and yyy is the md5 checksum of your password.

Either way, the result of ja will have a group called ‘settings’ which in turn contains ‘wto’. You can check what is its value and paste it here. If you are using ET, it should at least contain baseETo and elevation. Otherwise if it doesn’t contain these variables then it could explain why it’s not updating.

The unit isn’t a problem because the app internally uses imperial units, and change between that vs. metric only affects the display. So if you are querying the internal parameters it will all be in imperial units. With the current firmware it unfortunately does not record error from the weather call and relay that to the app. We are getting close to release the next firmware 2.1.9, which has added the capability of storing weather call error, so when that’s ready, you will be able to find out why the watering percentage is not updating. At the moment I think the best option is probably to save a copy of your configurations, do factory reset, then import your saved configurations again. It still takes some steps, but you won’t have to reconfigure everything from scratch.

@Ray,

OK, here is the output from /ja/settings/loc:

loc: “40.81050,0.45852”

doesnt seem to be a pws location name, I am sorry…

settings: {devt: 1566850462, nbrd: 2, en: 1, rd: 0, rs: 0, rdst: 0, loc: “40.81050,0.45852”, wtkey: “”,…}
RSSI: -65
curr: 0
devt: 1566850462
eip: 1602354689
en: 1
ifkey: “”
loc: “40.81050,0.45852”
lrun: [2, 2, 3300, 1566712501]
lswc: 0
lupt: 1566646945
lwc: 1566848605
nbrd: 2
ps: [[0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0],…]
rd: 0
rdst: 0
rs: 0
sbits: [0, 0, 0]
sunrise: 437
sunset: 1247
wtkey: “”

If you prefer the entire output attached to a support ticket, let me know, and also, what is the best way to grab the entire /ja output? (for now I’m using google Chrome, as suggested.

hope this helps!

@Ray

OK, here is as much info as I can provide:

settings file:

{“settings”:{“devt”:1566850792,”nbrd”:2,”en”:1,”rd”:0,”rs”:0,”rdst”:0,”loc”:”40.81050,0.45852″,”wtkey”:””,”sunrise”:437,”sunset”:1247,”eip”:1602354689,”lwc”:1566848605,”lswc”:0,”lupt”:1566646945,”lrun”:[2,2,3300,1566712501],”curr”:0,”sbits”:[0,0,0],”ps”:[[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0]],”wto”:{“baseETo”:0.16,”elevation”:246,”h”:100,”t”:100,”r”:100,”bh”:40,”bt”:69.98,”br”:0},”ifkey”:””,”RSSI”:-65},”programs”:{“nprogs”:2,”nboards”:2,”mnp”:35,”mnst”:4,”pnsize”:16,”pd”:[[113,1,2,[297,-1,-1,-1],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,240,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],”pump start progr”],[115,1,2,[300,-1,-1,-1],[0,0,3000,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],”irri moestuin”]]},”options”:{“fwv”:218,”tz”:56,”ntp”:1,”dhcp”:1,”ip1″:192,”ip2″:168,”ip3″:0,”ip4″:111,”gw1″:192,”gw2″:168,”gw3″:0,”gw4″:1,”hp0″:80,”hp1″:0,”hwv”:30,”ext”:1,”sdt”:0,”mas”:1,”mton”:0,”mtof”:0,”urs”:0,”rso”:0,”wl”:110,”den”:1,”ipas”:0,”bst”:320,”uwt”:3,”ntp1″:50,”ntp2″:97,”ntp3″:210,”ntp4″:169,”lg”:1,”mas2″:2,”mton2″:0,”mtof2″:-20,”fwm”:4,”fpr0″:100,”fpr1″:0,”re”:0,”dns1″:8,”dns2″:8,”dns3″:8,”dns4″:8,”sar”:0,”ife”:0,”sn2t”:0,”sn2o”:0,”reset”:0,”dexp”:0,”mexp”:8,”hwt”:220},”status”:{“sn”:[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],”nstations”:16},”stations”:{“masop”:[253,123],”ignore_rain”:[0,0],”masop2″:[4,128],”stn_dis”:[0,0],”stn_seq”:[252,56],”stn_spe”:[4,195],”snames”:[“master 1 pomp”,”master 2 ball valves”,”virtual moestuin”,”S04″,”S05″,”S06″,”S07″,”S08″,”pump start advance”,”pump stop delay”,”S11″,”S12″,”S13″,”S14″,”run pump only”,”Open ball valves only”],”maxlen”:24}}

Firmware 2.1.8 (4)
Hardware version : 3.0 DC

Anything else that might help?

Thanks for your time and attention, so far!!

OK, I applied the work around. I can confirm that:
1) after re-engaging ET the water level percentage was updated
2) wto entry has been abbreviated to: wto: {baseETo: 0.16, elevation: 246, d: 24}

So now it seems to work just fine.

If i run into any hangups with ET not phoning home (yep, had that one coming;), I will post a reply here. If no news, good news!

And a lot less work then redefining everything. Thanks a lot Ray!