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Ray
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Not too hard — there is 0.2ohm current sensing resistor combined with an op-amp based precision rectifier. The signal can then be fed into the ADC (on OpenSprinkler, the microcontroller itself has ADC pins, whereas RPi doesn’t have built-in ADC but OSPi has a PCF8591 ADC chip on board).