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I received my OpenSprinkler just a couple of days ago and love it. I created a quick Python script that runs on the Raspberry Pi and it monitors the OpenSprinkler API every 5 seconds for station status. When it finds that a station is open, it will send a push notification to my phone (via Instapush).
Currently it only sends a push when a station begins (since that was all I wanted notifications for).
If you’re interested in setting this up yourself, here’s the link with a brief how-to. https://github.com/drsprite/OpenSprinkler-Push-Notifications
I didn’t have a Pushover account, but I signed up for the 7 day trial for Pushover and was able to get it working. The name of my app is “OpenSpinkler” which is what is used for the title of the push notification.
In the script you need to define your App token, and user key, in addition to selecting “pushover” on line 24, for the pushService variable.
Then it should be good to go after the rest of the items are configured.
Very cool. I figured out how to clone your repository and i checked out the scripts.
Do I need to modify this line
ospiStationStatus = urllib2.urlopen(“http://localhost:8080/js?pw=” + ospiApiPasswordHex).read()
If i changed the port of my open sprinkler?
You got it, if it’s running on another port, just change the :8080 to your port.
If you’re running it on port 80, you can just delete :8080 since port 80 is the default for http and doesn’t need to be explicitly defined.
Oops, I said HEX there, and meant hash. You can use an online tool like this: http://www.miraclesalad.com/webtools/md5.php – Type in your password and it’ll hash it for you.
For example, hello is 5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592
You would then put 5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592 in as the opsiApiPasswordHex.
I’m going to change the script to say “Hash” instead of “Hex” for clarity in the future.
Figured it out. I used this to convert the ascii text to MD5 Hash
Yeah, getting close. I modified per the instructions and I am getting this error:
sudo python ospi_push_notifications.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “ospi_push_notifications.py”, line 14, in <module>
import urllib2, json, requests
ImportError: No module named requestsSooo I did this
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-requestsGot it all working , thanks.
One note for the installers. If you checkout the package with GIT it drops the software in /home/pi/OpenSprinkler-Push-Notifications
You ether need to modify the ospi-notifications script
from
DAEMON=/home/pi/ospi_push_notifications.pyto
DAEMON=/home/pi/OpenSprinkler-Push-Notifications/ospi_push_notifications.pyor move it to /home/pi or the service with not work.
Pat: Thanks!!!!
Great! Glad you got it working 🙂 You were the first that I know of to use it.
I enjoy knowing when my sprinklers are going when I’m away from the house. Sometimes it’s a reminder to me to turn them off (if the rain sensor doesn’t kick in or something) 🙂
Me too! Going away on vacation and like to know things are running well too.
I have a Vera for home automation but the Opensprinkler plugin isn’t working for me and that plugin doesn’t do notifications for the OpenSprinkler.
The Vera plug-in is not written by us and I think it only works for an earlier version of the firmware (2.0.9 or earlier).
OK, I must be dense! I cannot for the life of me determine where in the script to put the pertinent information?
Disregard. I am dense. I downloaded the html link to the file. I’ll git now…:confused:
I’ve updated the script to include notifications for when the rain sensor is activated and when it clears.
https://github.com/drsprite/OpenSprinkler-Push-Notifications
Were you able to figure this out?
Think so. Had to go to work, so had to stop playing. :thumbup:
Got it working!
Sweet addiiton
Now there is two spots for the port, lol.Maybe a variable added in the future?
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