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Thank you Ray, that is great. I will go ahead and test the Hunter Soil Click Soil Moisture Sensor. It will be an interesting project to do.
Then I understand, I will look in the manual and figure that out. It sounds very good.
Thank you for your help!
Thank you Ray, I am not entirely sure if I needed a soil sensor and a LM393 analog comparator.
Is it possible if I can ask it simply if the below soil sensor will be compatible and that sensor would be the only thing I need to buy to connect it to the OpenSprinkler?
I did ask the chatGPT about the soil sensor and wonder if all the info below that was said is more or less true and I could go ahead and buy this soil sensor?ChatGPT answer:
Hunter Soil-Clik: This is a soil moisture sensor that uses a hygroscopic disc to detect moisture levels in soil. It has a dry contact output that can be connected to an irrigation controller or other device. The sensor is easy to install and requires no maintenance.Yes, the Hunter Soil-Clik is compatible with the OpenSprinkler irrigation controller. The Soil-Clik is designed to work with any irrigation controller that has a normally closed (NC) or normally open (NO) switch input. The OpenSprinkler controller has a switch input that can be configured as either NC or NO, depending on the type of switch being used.
To connect the Soil-Clik to the OpenSprinkler, you will need to connect the two wires from the Soil-Clik’s dry contact output to the switch input on the OpenSprinkler controller. The Soil-Clik comes with a pigtail wire that can be used for this purpose. You can also connect multiple Soil-Clik sensors to a single OpenSprinkler controller, as long as each sensor is connected to a separate switch input.
Once the Soil-Clik is connected to the OpenSprinkler, you can configure the controller to use the sensor to trigger irrigation. You can set the Soil-Clik to activate irrigation when the soil moisture drops below a certain threshold, and you can also set a delay time to prevent the sensor from triggering irrigation too frequently. The OpenSprinkler’s user manual provides detailed instructions on how to configure the controller to use the Soil-Clik sensor.
Thank you, yes I could see now to connect a sensor to for example to: SN1 and GND.
Then I think I could understand that it could be possible that when the sensor reaches a certain level and rain sensor is automatic on the OpenSprinkler, it would not run a watering program if I assume.
I am divided to perheps use a Soil Moisture sensor instead: “Irrometer Watermark Soil Moisture Sensor 5FT Water Conserving Monitor Probe”
The function I am after is to override and Not let watering programs run when moisture levels is over a certain threshold. The idéa I have is that moisture in the ground/garden is the result of Rain and temperature.Sorry for asking but could this one below be compatible so I am not buying something that might not be compatible?
Done some research it seems this one should have some quality to it or if you can recommend any wired moisture sensor with good quality.
The only info about “soil” when searching in the “OSAPI2.2.0” is the below. How does it work. For example isn’t moisture levels between 0-100%.
Is it possible to for example only let a specific watering program (Ex: “WaterProgram1”) run if the level is <= 30% etc. I am not sure how to make code for this?sn1t: Sensor 1 type. (0: not using sensor; 1: rain sensor; 2: flow sensor; 3: soil sensor; 240 (i.e. 0xF0): program switch).
Thank you DaveC!
I managed to find out that it was possible to put Zones in different groups using the below URL command:
http://os-ip/cs?pw=xxx&g0=1&g1=1&g2=1& etc… g10=255
So there for example: “g0” is Zone 0, “g1” is Zone 1 etc where I put all Zones 0-9 to Group 1.
Then I put Zone 10 in Group ID: 255 which can run in Parallell independently of Zone 0-9.
So Zone 0-9 will run sequentially as usual. Let say the total time here is 50 minutes.
Then I have just put Zone 10 to run for 50 minutes. So the valve opens and closes when the program is running.I tried it out today in the water system and it did work out.
Thank you for your help!
Essentially to simplify my question in previous post:
1. I need to open Zone 10.
2. >= 1 second after, I will run a program (Station 0-9) which runs for 50 minutes.
3. Now I need to close Zone 10.That would be the exact function that I am after, so Zone 10 must then be open during the whole 50 minutes.
The program URL that I create looks like this at this moment which sequentially opens Zone 0-9 for 5 minutes each:
[code]http://15.1.0.11:80/cp?pw=xxx&pid=-1&v=[193,4,0,[1020,-1,-1,-1],[300,300,300,300,300,300,300,300,300,300,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]&name=TestProgram&endr=1&from=33&to=415
[/code]How would this be possible to do?
Hi Ray,
Yes, that was perfect! I am able to follow all logic using that method. I see the logic with the bits there now. 1,2,4,8,16,32,64 and adding them
for the weekdays etc.I was able to enable all 24 zones also so I can now see the whole array there.
Thank you!
Yes you are right, my mistake. I think I in the code had the example from the API manual: “change location to GPS coord 42.01,-75.22”
where the minus sign was still in the second argument there as I just follwed the example and changed the values and the minus sign was still intact.The time is correct when I tried it manually now. Yes, I can set the location in the UI also which is a better idéa.
Thank you for your help!
It seemed that the controller showed -7 hours wrong time by default.
This is why I try to change the time. I now then tried changing the timezones like the below Greece and Sweden examples.
Time is changing on the controller but are -4 hours and -3 hours wrong.I got the coordinates on google maps. I am not sure if I do this correctly?
http://15.1.0.6:80/co?pw=a6d82bced638de3def1e9bbb4983225c&loc=37.98,-23.72 //Greece shows -4 hours wrong time?
http://15.1.0.6:80/co?pw=a6d82bced638de3def1e9bbb4983225c&loc=60.12,-18.64 //Sweden shows -3 hours wrong time?
