[bekesizl]

It should be possible to let your old thing and the HA integration run in parallel, as long as you don’t execute conflicting commands.

I have an OS running.
I use the HA integration for monitoring purposes since a long time.
I have used Nodered to set WaterLevel for a long time.

Now I use a different waterlevel calculation logic running in Nodered, running in parallel with the HA integration, without problems.
It executes a one-time program over the API. Start time is controlled by Nodered. Sequence is then controlled by OS.

[bekesizl]

I use a PLC for this purpose (that was already used for different automation tasks in my house).
The general firmware of the OS is not able to do this task, but you might be able to do it with a relay or a smart relay with Home Assistant.

I have two floating switches in my water tank.
The lower one tells me, if I have to refill the tank.
The upper one tells me, tank is full (enough) for some sprinkler use.
Filling is timed at night before sprinkler operation. This way if enough rain is falling, the tank doesn’t get filled.

The tank is for gathering the rain from my roof.
But can also get filled from the city water supply via a standard sprinkler valve.
For driving the sprinkler I always use a pump, switch on with a flow switch. It builds up a pressure in the tubes and tries to maintain that. If a valve is opened, the pressure drops and starts the pump. After a valve is closed, the pump runs for a short time and switches of when the pressure is built up.

[bekesizl]

I started my system this Monday as the morning freezes were gone and the lawn needed watering.
At the moment I am running with manually setted percentage, set from Node-Red via querying the Weather Service runnning on an RPi and I also monitor the actual percentage on a graph.

I used to run OS with a wired Ethernet connection, but I had some issue and switched over to wireless. The gateway for my Froggit/Ecowitt weather station is also located in the same room and needs wifi anyway.

I also don’t know where to start with the investigation.
I guess I will leave it this way and hope to have reliable operation this summer.

[bekesizl]

I guess I will take another more drastical route for this problem.
I don’t think our problem is wifi related, at least not related to our home network.
But I don’t really have the time to start investigating in the Arduino code.

I am logging my weather station data with several methods into Home Assistant and InfluxDB. I can also reach the data from Node-Red.
My best idea at the moment is to revert to manually setting the watering percentage and this will be done regularly over the API from Node-Red.
Maybe I can use the output of the original weather service or simply recreate average values via InlfuxDB queries and override them in case of rain.

I already have a Node-Red flow that calculates the percentage every 30 minute from data from the OS and the weather service for display.
I hope I will be able to find the possibility to change watering level within the API documentation.

It is strange, that only we two are having this kind of problem and as long it is not getting reported by many users, there is no change to get it solved.
You already came a long way with your investigation.

[bekesizl]

Nothing changed in the settings or wifi setup since yesterday.
Weather service report is understand by Nodered and scale displayed by HomeAssistant.
Opensprinkler is online.
Again “Empty response” and scale changed to 100%. I am switching temporarily to manual scale.

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[bekesizl]

I didn’t had time during the week for experiments, Wifi is using the old “Access Point”.
I didn’t manage to set up the Mikrotik AP until now.

Today I changed back the used weather service from DarkSky to PersonalWeatherStation this afternoon.
This evening the scale was updated. I will observe how it behaves in the future.

I am pretty sure that the weather service script is working alright, as I built myself a flow in NodeRed, that queries Opensprinkler for the data for the query of the weather service, then queries the weather service and exports the scale. It was working alright through the whole week.
I need this to be able to observe the weathering scale without using Opensprinkler webapp or anything OS related, as neither the OS API queries, nor the MQTT interface includes this value.

How bad is the compilation of the firmware?
Sometimes I would also like OS to update the scale more often, especially after a rain in the night.

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[bekesizl]

Here is the code, that actually works.

There was a typo at https://github.com/OpenSprinkler/OpenSprinkler-Weather/blob/master/docs/pws-protocol.md

`http://192.168.1.25:80/weatherstation/updateweatherstation.php?tempf=[th0temp-act=F.1:0]&humidity=[th0hum-act.0:–]&rainin=[rain0total-sum1=inch.2:0]&dailyrainin=[rain0total-sumday=inch.2:0]&dateutc=[UYYYY]-[UMM]-[UDD]+[Uhh]%3A[Umm]%3A[Uss]

[bekesizl]

Yes, that is exactly the feature I was thinking of.
I use hardware based OS, not an OSPi, so putting this as a setting somewhere would be very good.
I am not experienced in Arduino programming.

I don’t know how many people have this issue? I had it for 2 days ín the 1 year usage.

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