Robotic lawn mower integration

[jumpingpear]

Hi,

what do you think of an integration of a robotic lawn mower as one of the outputs of OpenSprinkler?
Two things why it would be benefitial:
– When raining, the robotic lawn mower whould better not mow, thus he should be deactivated when it is raining (the weather forecast could be used therefore)
– The robotic lawn mower should not be active in times when the sprinkler system is activated and thus a common control is of advantage

So the robotic lawn mower output should have the following configuration possibilities:
– Set a specific start and end time
– Disable the output when it already rained or it is raining (when it should rain after the configured mow time, then ignore the forecast and mow)
– Be able to connect a “law mower in the station”-sensor to OpenSprinkler to be able to check if the lawn mower returned to the charging station
– Be able to set a waiting time for the mower to be recharged
=> when the end time is reached / about to reach and the mower returned to the station (sensor signal is high), wait the user-specified time till the mower is recharged and turn off the power before the mower starts to mow again
=> do not turn of the power off when the mower is still mowing because this could lead to undefined behavior of the mover (dependend of the manufacturer)

What do you think of this idea?

Best regards
jumpingpear

[Ray]

I’ve seen a few nice projects on building robotic lawn mowers yourself, but I am not sure if there is a common platform or common API that these lawn mowers use. Without a common API, this integration will have to be done on a case by case basis.

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