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No. I have an OSPi Plus version.
Attached pictures with file names starting with “IMG_” are pictures I took of the OSPi + board that I have.
This is the correct subform and I still need help.
Those of us who have OSPi, especially powered by Pi version 2, probably have the CPU and storage to save the script locally and run the algorithm autonomously.
Could you…
- Include a check for Raspian (or PiV2 if the A & B+ are underpowered), and if present…
- Present options in the advanced section to …
- Store the Zimmerman (or later ET) variables locally and …
- Then modify the Zimmerman (or later ET) perimeters.
This would allow users to continue to function if your site went off line. It would give us the option to alter the weather algorithm’s variables, or not. As more people used stronger processors, the amount of user variables stored on your server would decrease.
Ray,
Should the rest of us do this too?
If so, is the command just git-pull with no options? or sudo git-pull? or?
Nice!
I’m new to RPi so may have missed something obvious. My install already had git. I verified this by doing your step 2 and it said it was already the current version.
I used the receipe below to make mine. I also did “apt-get update” and “apt-get upgrade” before the git command.
https://opensprinkler.com/forums/topic/ospi2-img-zip-in-the-ospi14-manual/#post-36146
Just to make sure I understand correctly:
- the program is enabled and scheduled to run.
- the stations are enabled individually
- pin the program, there are times assigned to the stations
- the weather adj is off
- the rain sensor setting is off (you said you don’t have one but didn’t say the setting was disabled)
- And it is not watering and the log shows no automatic activity.
then…
i got nuthin.
Could you post your configuration export with the weather underground key removed so Ray or Samer can dig into it?
Is your program enabled?
Have you enabled Weather Adjustment for your program? If so, turn it off. Did the next scedule work? If so, either your location setting needs checking or the weather algorithm decided that you don’t need to water.
What does the Weather Diagnostic say? This can be found in the menu on the left.
Click the floating menu icon in the lower right and select view logs. Change the log view to Table. Do you see an entry for the date that did not water? If so, how long does it say the zones watered?
Check Preview Programs from the floating menu. Does it look right?
Is there a red bar accross the bottom of the screen that says rain detected? If so, do you have a rain sensor connected? If not, do you have the Use Rain Sensor box checked in the weather control section of Options?
Kim,
I have ssh enabled on my Pi and have been using “sudo reboot”. Does this properly sync the files?
Sean
I’m new here, but…
Could you assign each master to it’s own station (not using the master station option that is built in). Configure both not to use weather adjustment, leave the city water station in a disabled state.
Then program both master stations to turn on a minute before your watering schedule and turn off 5 minutes after the schedule would normally end if there were no weather adjustment.
This way, you can set your lawn and garden to weather adjust and they will water from the pump. On those days the the well is low, you can log in from anywhere (your couch with beer in hand) and disable the pump station then enable the city water station.
At least, I think that would work.
Sean
Now I feel really ,really silly.
The program dump showed manual. Becaus that is how I left it after I had come to the false conclusion that weather control was broken.
I set it to Phoenix, Az (because I couldn’t figure out how to set Sydney AU) and golly gee, look at that. The % watering changed to 80%.
Face, meet egg.
so my lesson this evening. Is that I need to chill, have a beer and trust the the program.
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ok I’ve had my beer. Better.
thanks
Just made the following changes:
- Wiped and reloaded the 2.1.3 firmware.
- ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade.
- re-enabled Weather Adjustment on the daily program.
- Changed the local weather station setting from the personal weather station where it was pointing to the local airport.
Weather diagnostic still says “Current % watering = 0%”
We’ll see if it waters tomorrow.
Found it. I was directed to this post
I misremembered thinking it was a simple apt-get command.
So, here is the recipe I used for my Raspberry Pi version 2 B:
- Format an SD card as Fat32
- Download, unzip and copy the current full Noobs to the SD
- Follow the instructions here http://www.raspberrypi.org/help/noobs-setup/
- Assuming that you have a monitor and keyboard connected…
- When you get to the point of the Noobs install that asks you what things to install choose ONLY Debian (Raspian?)
- When you get to the point where the text based raspberry config program runs (The config runs automatically on first boot.), remember to…
- Set your time zone in the Localization section.
- Enable SSH.
- Change your default password.
- Change your Host name (optional)
- Get your network working so you can successfully browse the web
- Did you notice at this point that this is a rather good personal computer for surfing and stuff?
- Browse to The First Link in this Post and under the section titled “Upgrade OSPi/OSBo to Firmware 2.1.3” do step 1, 2 and 4.
- you are skipping step 3 because this is a fresh install.
- DONE.
No, I have the unified C++ version. At the time I got it it was beta. The version number is 2.1.3. I think the current version has the same number so I’m not sure if anything has changed.
I am still looking for the command I used to load it. I remember that it was a terminal command. Does anyone know what it may be?
Got home early today so I could check it out while the sun is still up , if that makes a difference.
The daily program that I disabled Weather Adjustment watered for the first time since the update rolled out. I think the problem is the Zimmerman weather adjustment.
the sun is up, it is 70 degrees and it has not rained since 3/4/15. On that day we got 0.1 in. I jus ran the weather diagnostic and it tells me that Current % watering = 0%. does this mean that it still thinks zero water is needed? Is that why watering stopped for weather enabled programs?
The same thing happens to me, at first. Same exact symptoms.
i have an OSPI version 2.
the fix was to load the ad card with and boot to noobs, then configure everything to connect reliably to the network, then use the command line to get the OSPI app.
i think that the 1.4 image may be incomparable with the new proc on the ver 2 pi.
i can’t find the manual instruction that I used. maybe Samer or Ray could provide it?
When I can view it in the early morning, the weather diag always says Current % Watering = 0%. I assumed that was because i can only look at it before sunup most days.
In the Log/Table view, there is no entry for 3/18 or 3/19. in the Timeline view, the last two days show no watering.
I have disabled weather check on the daily program to see if that allows it to run.
BTW, it has not rained or snowed here in over 3 weeks.
Looking at the logs, it appears that the daily watering did not take place today.
it is predicted for tomorrow, though.
Is there a url to input a past date and location to check the Zimmerman calculation?
Here ya go Samer:
{“programs”:{“nprogs”:2,”nboards”:3,”mnp”:13,”mnst”:4,”pnsize”:12,”pd”:[[67,127,0,[16444,-1,780,12348],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,600,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],”Garden”],[51,1,3,[360,0,0,0],[1800,1800,1200,7200,1800,1200,2100,2100,1200,1200,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],”Main”]]},”stations”:{“snames”:[“Rear S. Fence”,”Rear S. walk”,”Front S. Lawn”,”Back Yard Perim”,”Frnt Lwn Street”,”Frnt Lwn Rear”,”Rear Lawn E.”,”Rear Lawn Patio”,”Flower Beds Frnt”,”Rear Lawn N.”,”S11″,”Garden Drip”,”S13″,”S14″,”S15″,”S16″,”S17″,”S18″,”S19″,”S20″,”S21″,”S22″,”S23″,”S24″],”masop”:[255,255,255],”ignore_rain”:[0,0,0],”act_relay”:[255,11,0],”stn_dis”:[0,244,255],”rfstn”:[0,0,0],”stn_seq”:[255,247,255],”maxlen”:16},”options”:{“fwv”:213,”tz”:24,”ntp”:1,”dhcp”:0,”ip1″:192,”ip2″:168,”ip3″:3,”ip4″:76,”gw1″:192,”gw2″:168,”gw3″:3,”gw4″:1,”hp0″:144,”hp1″:31,”hwv”:64,”ext”:2,”sdt”:0,”mas”:0,”mton”:0,”mtof”:0,”urs”:0,”rso”:1,”wl”:0,”den”:1,”ipas”:0,”devid”:0,”con”:110,”lit”:100,”dim”:15,”rlp”:0,”uwt”:1,”ntp1″:50,”ntp2″:97,”ntp3″:210,”ntp4″:169,”lg”:1,”reset”:0,”dexp”:-1,”mexp”:5},”status”:[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],”settings”:{“devt”:1426710750,”nbrd”:3,”en”:1,”rd”:0,”rs”:0,”rdst”:0,”loc”:”pws:KCOLOVEL23″,”wtkey”:”xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx”,”sunrise”:425,”sunset”:1151,”eip”:1204629141,”sbits”:[0,0,0,0],”ps”:[[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0,0],[0,0]],”lrun”:[11,1,312,1426616053]}}
Thank you Samer!
One minor blip. I have a daily garden program and an every third day lawn program. On the preview screen for today it predicts no watering.
this may be an artifact of the update. I’ll check tomorrow and see if it was a one time glitch.
Sean
you could simply set the start time of program 1 for 11:00 am and the start time of program 2 for 6:00 pm. Then they would always start at those times.
I think I do not understand your question.
I use the parallel station setting for my garden’s drip system. All other stations are set to sequential. The garden is on one schedule and all the others are on another.
On the days that the two schedules overlap, the garden station and one of the others is on at the same time. Or it will be when I turn the water on for the season.
so as not to hijack this thread, I’ll ask about possible issues with overlapping stations elswhere.
If you have two programs configured to start at 11:00 then they will both start automatically at 11:00.
I have not seen a “Run All Programs” command.
Hi Rob,
You may have already purchased, so this may be a bit late.
I just replaced my rainBird system with an OSPi (using a Pi version 2). the controller location is in the garage at the farthest point from my wifi access point. My phone normal shows a weak wifi signal there. I didn’t want to wire ethernet out to that spot so I included the wireless internet adapter that Ray sells. It is larger than your normal USB dongle so I was hoping that it would have a lager antenna and make better use of a weak signal.
So far it has worked like a champ. My OSPi has been on the garage wall for the past week and I have not had one comm issue. Pages refresh nice and snappy. I have attached a screen snip that shows my access point’s view of the connection quality.
It is a cool little unit and well worth the $20.
There are a few things that you will need to keep in mind. It connects to OSPi via the ethernet port and the current case is not designed for this so you will need to cut a hole in the case.
Also, both OSPi and the adapter need to maintain the same IP addresses you will need to hard code at least one with a static IP. A DHCP reserve on your router relies on a unique MAC and both OSPi and it’s adapter share the same MAC. The easiest thing here is to leave the Pi on DHCP and hard code the adapter. I hard coded both because i just wanted to learn how to do it on the Pi.
The last thing I can think of here is that the adapter can actually be configured in three different ways. You need Client Mode for this application.
Have Fun!
Sean
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