Add i2c station to ospi

[Aquafluxo]

I have several ospi’s using relay cards and gpio station type but this is limited to 18 stations. i have now a megaio boar witch connects directly to raspberry pi and as 8 i2c relays. Is it possible to add a i2c station type to ospi? I soupose the only way is modifying the firmware. If so how can we do that or anyone is working on this?

[Ray]

Why not use expanders? OSPi supports expanders, each adding 16 zones.

[Ray]

Why not use OpenSprinkler expanders? OSPi supports expanders, each adding 16 zones.

[Aquafluxo]

I didn’t explain correctly, I don’t have opensprinkler pi hardware, I only have a raspberry pi running the ospi firmware connected to relay cards, using gpio. I need 25 stations and I can use only 18 GPIO’s. I have a “Mega-IO card” (https://www.sequentmicrosystems.com/megaio.html) witch is stackable on raspberry pi and responds to I2C commands. Is it possible to give I2C commands from opensprinkler pi firmware as i think you do in Esp8266 based opensprinkler? Or can I use linux command line instruction inside opensprinkler firmware, as the card have is own software that responds to linux commands like for example “megaio 0 rwrite 1 1”? Can I use HTML type stations to give a linux command?

[Ray]

Sure, I understand, but this request is too specialized, it’s unlikely that we will be able to implement this for you. The project is completely open-source, you can modify the firmware to add I2C type zones yourself.

[Aquafluxo]

I am trying to modify the firmware and to simplify the process I want to add some unexisting gpio’s to the program and set a condition when the station as that gpio instead of setting that pin there will be a system() command specific to the megaio board. My problem now is that I add some more gpio’s to defines.h and they don’t appear in the available pin numbers in the UI after I recompile the unified-firmware.

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