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I’m using an OSPi and had firmware version 2.0 something before the update.
Thanks for the response Ray, I hadn’t even checked for a response and noticed I was running an older firmware (thought I updated it before the holidays but apparently not). I have the latest now and all is happy again.
Thanks for your continued support of this fantastic product!
Was this ever resolved? I tried using the alternative Roy suggested in post #76818 but didn’t seem to work either for me.
Well, kind of solved my own issues.
Apparently the zone that was “bad” actually had a bad solenoid in the new valve. I had another new valve so thought what the heck, I’ll try connecting just the solenoid to the zone and give it a go. Solenoid buzzed right away when activating the zone from OSPi so I screwed the new new solenoid into the valve and before firing it up went to check the voltage on the zone. Zero volts AC in that zone now! Just for fun I checked the other unused zones and they still show ~7VAC but the one I care about seems to be back in order so I used the app to turn on the bad zone and all is happy again. I tried the zone four or five times then let the normal program run yesterday and all seems well.
Not sure why the unused zones are showing ~7VAC but I don’t have anything hooked up to them so not going to worry about it for now.
Thanks for responding, both of you.
I got a 250VAC 2A fuse and soldered two leads on then was able to solder it to the board. Everything functioned perfectly until the second to last zone and pretty sure the fuse popped again. I am thinking there is a short in the line going out to that zone somewhere. It was too late last night by the time I got everything back together and tested to go check the valve. I suspect a short because the system installed when I bought the house was a mess and only four of the eight wires going out to that sprinkler box were any good (the other four were open somewhere between the controller and the sprinkler box).
The one thing I liked about the sprinkler controller that the OSPI replaced is it had a circuit breaker instead of a fuse. I know enough about electronic components to be dangerous. Could I replace the fuse with a reset able breaker instead of a fuse? If so where could I get such a thing?
On edit, would something like http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/W28-XQ1A-2/PB183-ND/45058 work? I know I would have to run leads from the board out to the terminals but that is trivial compared to soldering a new fuse every time it blows due to a short in the wire for the zone.
I did what Ray suggested and it worked just fine.
I actually had something weird happen on day two of my OSPi running where all communication to the Pi stopped. I had purchased two RPi’s so I retrieved the sd card from the OSPi, booted up the OSPi sd card in the other RPi, and had to reconfigure the WiFi again. Not sure what happened there as it was working just fine on day 1 and I had not touched it after confirming all was working on day 1. On day 11 and all has been functioning well.
Just to update and close out on this. I followed what Sean posted above and my OpenSprinkler Pi is up and running! Thank you very much for your assistance!
Sean, is this the install you are talking about?
http://rayshobby.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=Python_Interval_Program_for_OSPi
Well, now I feel kind of dumb wasting all that time yesterday messing with all that stuff 🙁
Yes, I have the RPi V2 and it makes sense that the image is built for the other models and is not compatible with V2.
Thanks to Randy and Sean for showing me the way. If someone could post how to get the OSPi app from the command line that would be awesome. I’m sure I could figure it out but a guide would definitely help.
