Question about “Use Weather Adjustment”

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I purchased and installed an OpenSprinkler controller about a week ago. Set up a schedule and then made sure i am on the latest firmware version 2.2.1(1) (updated from 2.2.1). For “Weather Adjustment Method” i chose “Auto Rain Delay” after briefly experimenting with Eto and “California Restriction”, but the latter currently turned off (see screenshots)…

I was also able to get a program to trigger at its scheduled time last weekend.

However, earlier this week an auto rain delay happened and showed up in the logs and was displayed on the main page. This was several days ago and there is presently no auto rain delay active. It appears that programs with the “Use Weather Adjustment” do not get scheduled to run. (And I think they disappear from the preview at midnight the day they are supposed to run.)

I would have expected that “Use Weather Adjustment” in my setup just means that the auto rain delay function is active for this program, but I might be misunderstanding things. — Is there something else that this setting does that could prevent scheduled program from running?

Also, I confirmed that the correct local time is shown on the main page, and that the weather forecast displayed looks reasonable.

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To follow up on my own post, I think I figured it out. — This looks like a small bug in the firmware.

Here is how to reproduce the issue:

* Go to “Edit Options/Weather and Season”
* Set the “Weather Adjustment Method” to “Manual” — This will enable the “% Watering” input field.
* Click the “% Watering” input field, set the percentage to 0. Hit “Submit” in the popup dialog. Do not save your settings yet.
* Change the “Weather Adjustment Method” to “Auto Rain Delay”. Confirm a duration of 24 hours.
* You’ll notice that “% Watering” is greyed out again, but reads “0”.
* Save options by hitting “Submit”.

When you do this, back on the main page you will see “Water Level: 0%”. — This prevents any program with “Use Weather Adjustment” checked from running.

To get out to this state, just go through the same steps as outlined above, but set “% Watering” to 100 instead of 0.

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