[LeighGr]

Thanks Ray and Tim.

I’ve been puzzling over the same issue. I’ve held off upgrading my two OSPi’s to 2.1.7 until last month, and with having been away on holiday for a few weeks, I only noticed today that the remote zone, which controls the borehole pump, wasn’t working as expected! Setting the “Special Station Auto Refresh” option on the master controller fixed the issue.

[LeighGr]

Darn. That Master Off Delay bug is not what I wanted to hear. I’ve a remote station, configured as a master, to switch on the borehole pump on whenever the main master switches on, which controls the tank pump. The tank empties quicker than the borehole can fill is, so I was hoping to add a master off delay to the remote master.

Besides the fact that the setting has no effect, I’d like to be able to have the master off delay to be as high as an hour, as the current 60 seconds isn’t going to help. Currently we manually control the borehole pump, but sometimes wake up in the middle of the night to an overflowing tank, when we’ve forgotten to turn if off.

I’ll have to go back to the drawing board. Maybe have the remote master trigger an Arduino which then adds the off delay?

[LeighGr]

@QMan wrote:

Here is how you tell OpenSprinkler that you have an Extension board:

This is not the case for Richard’s alternative sprinkler control program. AFAIK, this only supports one expansion board, and does work, as I’m using 13 of the available 15 zones.

[LeighGr]

@Rexel99 wrote:

I was getting a ‘Bad response from Wunderground’ and the IP I got pinging api.wunderground.com presented two other options (switching). I was also trying to use the Melbourne airpot PWS (YMML) so all combined it wouldnt work.

When I ping api.wunderground.com, it resolves to an akamai cluster host (a92-122-108-120.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com), which I doubt would work. When I use that IP (92.122.108.120), I immediately get an ‘Invalid Response from WUnderground server!’ response. Changing back to 38.102.136.138, it takes a few seconds before it comes with the same error, which is really starting to peeve me off.

Ahh. The problem could be with the PWS I’m trying to use. IWESTERN153, the one I was using, but now give an invalid response, does show current info on the web site. IWESTERN136, does give a valid response, and that is displayed in the diagnostics page. Only problem is, their rain gauge shows either 0 or gives wild readings, so it’s no use. One mystery solved. Time to go looking for another nearby PWS with a working rain gauge.

At least I now know it wasn’t my modifying the script to display decimal figures, as I just upgraded to 1.0.7, and was getting the same error. Now to go modify the 1.0.7 files.

Leigh

[LeighGr]

@jonathon wrote:

Hi,

Apologies in advance, this is a newbie question. My sprinkler_pi says “Communication Failure” when doing a WUnderground Check. I’ve checked that I my API key is correct. I’m using 69.192.200.120 for the WUnderground IP.

Hi Jonathon

I don’t know where you got that IP address, but I’m using 38.102.136.138, as indicated in Rich’s screenshots, and it works 1/10 times, but I don’t get Comms failure messages.

[LeighGr]

@rszimm wrote:

The API allows you to combine two different “pages” of information into a single call. The “yesterday” in the URL gives me data for what happened yesterday. The “conditions” in the URL gives me data for current conditions. Put them both in the URL and you’ll get everything in one API call. Here’s a link to the API documentation: http://api.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/docs

Thanks Rich. I’ve been wondering the same thing myself. I’ve attempted to modify your code in an attempt to get the current wind speed. My problem is 4 out of 5 time I run the WUnderground Diagnostics, I receive an “Invalid Response from WUnderground server!” message. I’d be happy that I’d broken the code if it did it every single time, but every now and then it does return all the data, so it’s not too broken.

Is there a way I can pipe the response to a file, or a debug page, so I can figure out where it’s tripping up?

Regards,

[LeighGr]

@Zodiac69 wrote:

Is it possible to include the current wind speed and “inhibit” the schedules if the wind speed is above value “X”?

I’m still trying to figure out what part of the country you are in. If the part with golf ball sized hail stones, I wonder how many personal weather stations survived yesterdays storm up in Gauteng?

Back to your topic, I’ve been thinking on the same lines as while most early mornings in Durbanville have almost no wind, we do have the odd day where the wind blows enough that I don’t want the sprinklers on, as the wind blows the water against the house, and due to the high Iron content, stains the walls.

I’ve got as far as mangling the code on my Pi to pull the metric values from WUnderground, and have added the current wind speed, but I can’t get the wind reading to display. Inhibiting the schedule is probably the best choice, as the wind only gets stronger during the day.

[LeighGr]

😳 Found the problem with my phone. After going through the code and not finding a single ‘°F” anywhere, I forced the browser on the phone to refresh, and now it loads properly.

Leigh.

[LeighGr]

Thanks guys for some fantastic software for equally fantastic hardware. I’ve got the software running in demo mode on my Raspberry Pi.

The WUnderground integration works very well, though it took me several hours to figure out how to change the WUnderground diagnostics page to display metric values as opposed to the default imperial one. I thought I had it all sorted until I used my phone this morning to check the page, to discover we had 17″ of rain yesterday – should be 17mm. I also still need to sit down and do the maths to see how my changes have affected the Weather::GetScale function. We’ve had three days of rain, and the “Overall Scale” has been 0% from before I started fiddling.

Ideally there should be slide on the setting page to select either imperial or metric units. With my coding skills, it will take me a couple of months to figure it out, though I don’t know what all I’ll break in the process.

I have a few friends coming around tomorrow,and I’ll show them this demo, as two of them have recently installed irrigation systems at their homes. If they are interested, I’ll be able to place an order for four OSPi units (1 for each and a spare) and at least two expansion modules early next week.

Leigh.

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