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Ray,
I agree with everything you have said about the competing product. I would hope that most (like me) would not ask you for hardware support on a competitor’s device. That having been said, I have been using the TAIO model for 4 months now and yes, I have contributed to the open source project with my posts and with subsequent purchases from you (The RF Toy so I could hook up my light controllers along with the receivers and transmitter of yours. I also then purchased your Open Garage Door). While I may not have purchased the same amount of $$$$ products as your sprinkler controller, I have indeed been driven to your site and aforementioned purchases because I had never heard of Open Sprinkler before finding the TAIO device.
I for one appreciate and applaud your work and embrace every bit of it and will continue to do so in the future.
Thanks
Shawn,
Thanks for your input. Not sure how that would work. AS I mentioned in my original comment, I have my system set to go on every third day. So say that would be today (Monday), then the next cycle would be Thursday. I need to run twice a week for about 20 minutes per zone in absence of any rainfall within three days of at least 1″.
So I irrigate this morning (Monday) and then this afternoon it rains .5 inches today, 1.77 inches on Tuesday, 0″ rain on Wednesday (now plenty of water for at least the next 3 days or more) and on Thursday, my system is ready to water at 100% and goes on. This is exactly what happened last week. The system seems to only look at the day preceding the day to irrigate. I want it to look at several days (at least 3 but better 7).
Ray,
Thanks for the reply. I know when I click on a weather station on Wonderground map, it gives me the current stats. When you click on the station “id” that link takes you to a detail page with stats for months and months and broken down to daily including wind, temp, rain accum etc. Not sure this is accessible from any available API.
What I had in mind (excuse my ignorance as I am not a programmer) was once we set up the program and set the station parameters, we are getting “daily” rainfall from the API. Can the system “add and average” those individual days so that at the end of the first 7 days, we now have the full set of readings and one day drops off and the next “new” reading is added in and averaged. Granted, it will take 7 days to be fully accurate / implemented, but that is fine for most applications.
Thanks,
Dennis
The zones are numbered on the enclosure…..1-8. Those numbers correspond to the zones on the OP interface. So just look and see which zones you hooked up to which number. Pretty simple?
I have the same issue here in south florida. We had .5 inches of rain on Tuesday, 1.77 inches on Wednesday, 0 on Thursday (plenty of irrigation for at least 5 days) and now on Friday morning my system is back to watering cycle of 105%. I had suggested two months ago that the algorithm take into account a 3-7 day rolling average of the rainfall and allow us to set it at something like 1″ =0%. While it might be debatable, some turf in this area requires only 1″ of irrigation per week.
Thanks.
I love this system, but now that summer rains are here and we get upwards of 2=3″ in a given day (sometimes everyday, but many times it will be so scattered that my station will not get any for one day, but I don’t need to water the next day after 4″ of rain the previous two days.
Not sure this will help you, but I am powering my 12v pool light using a 24v relay connected to zone 6 of my controller. While it is just one color, I would imagine you could program the zone to go on and off in quick sequences to get the color you want? I mounted the relay in the transformer box for the light and ran the two wires back to my sprinkler value manifold where I had zone 6 wire unused. I am breaking the existing switch to the light with the 110v relay contacts to control on and off leaving the switch in the on position all the time now.
Here in southwest Florida, most lawn types are irrigated based upon so many inches of water per week. So I also agree the best parameter for us to be able to set is the rainfall based upon the average of the last 7 days. It may have rained 2 inches today (typical in the summer) and then in three days, I do not need to irrigate again as I have far exceed my Empire Zoysia requirement of 1 inch per week. If the formula only looks at today and yesterday, our typical 1-2 inches of rain every few days will still allow Opensprinkler to run.
