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Well it certainly isn’t impossible to do. When I built my PC based controller software in Java and then the UI in HTML 5 and Javascript (with Jquery and JqueryUI), it was pretty straightforward to allow any station to go in any order, and even repeat stations within the same program. I just have an Add button that selects the controller and station to add to the program list. On a PC I also allow you to drag and drop program entries so that you can reorder stations that you’ve added.
The thing that isn’t easy to do on a Smartphone or any touchscreen device is dragging and dropping. But you can get around that by having move up and move down buttons at the side of the station name. Click the station up or down button and it moves up or down in the order.
Yes indeed, this seems to be a limitation. To be fair, regular dumb sprinkler timers have the same limitation. The only way to change it is to physically swap station wires around so that they are in the order you want.
As it turns out, I didn’t need it. I was worried since my nearest wifi AP to one of my controllers, which is installed inside a weatherproof box, is about 110′, but I get a decent -75 db signal to it.
@Ray, do you have pictures of the new enclosures? Do you have a new enclosure for the expansion ports too?
Apparently no one knows. I do know they are still selling stuff since I just bought $450 work of stuff and they shipped it right away. But these forums have been DEAD. No help and very little community input. I know this is hobby level stuff, but still, a little bit of forum attention now and then would be appreciated.
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Even though my controller was in my garage, I ended up installing it inside this Orbit weatherproof box:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VYGMF2
The box is lockable, comes with a GFCI receptacle so you can weatherproof your transformer (I replaced the GFCI receptacle with a regular one), has two knockouts for power and signal wires. It even has a false bottom so that you easily screw your Open Sprinkler boxes onto the bottom and not worry about poking through the back.
I agree wiggum_guy, the current clear enclosure with the smaller and harder to read OLED display is a step backwards IMHO. There is definitely an opportunity here for someone to license the hardware and software and make a commercial version that looks nice and has customer support. Of course, the price would be 2x what it is now. OpenSprinkler certainly has more features and is more capable than anything else out there.
Earlier versions looked like this: https://opensprinkler.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_6388.jpg
Current version looks like this: https://rayshobby.net/docs/os30_starter_guide.pdf
Thanks for the reply. I have about 100 zones spread across 3 physical controllers right now and would like to replace them with this. I am a programmer and wouldn’t mind spending the time to fork off code to make it work for me. I’m caught in the classic marginal use case scenario. To handle 100 zones half decently (meaning web based programming like this) in something more commercial is not only very expensive (like a $10,000 system), but way too complicated as well (meant for golf courses, really).
So, OpenSprinkler 3.0 (the microcontroller version) has a larger EEPROM then?
I am guessing (hoping) that the changes will be fairly minimal. Presumably both the the microcontroller (firmware) code and the App code need to be modified. Any pointers on where to look to find what needs to be tweaked would be appreciated. Also, does OS 3.0 allow remote (via Wifi) uploading of new firmware? One other question: OpenSprinkler 3.0 refers to the hardware, correct, and the latest firmware is 2.17?
