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We have been just scheduling the stations to run simultaneously. Still hoping for the ability to add more master zones in the future. Scheduling the pseudo-master stations to run at the same time as the valves are set to open makes any kind of schedule change much more cumbersome and also makes it less easy to just run a station manually. Overall it feels like a hack doing it this way, but it works

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@BinaryOS Thanks, that’s exactly what we ended up doing. Everything’s working like a charm now that we added the relays in between OpenSprinkler and the solenoid valves

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6 master zones if that’s possible. Thank you!

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I have been using and promoting Open Sprinkler for hydroponic systems. I have installed Open Sprinkler units at 3 different locations and will probably install 2 or 3 more units at a couple more locations in the near future. So far everyone’s been really happy

I decided to bring this up again because I keep getting asked if it would be possible to add more master zones than 2. The reason my customers want this is because they have multiple reservoirs each with their own supply pumps. With Canada and multiple US States legalizing cannabis cultivation, it could be beneficial for you to think beyond just traditional applications for Open Sprinkler.

So far I have been extremely happy with using Open Sprinkler even though in some cases I have deployed 2 units where I could have gotten away with 1 unit – if more than 2 masters were supported. Besides having to buy 2 units, which is not that big of a deal, the worst part of day to day use is having to switch back and forth between the 2 units interfaces when things would be so much more fluid if it were possible for it to be contained in one interface.

I might consider at some point looking into making the modifications myself, but I just haven’t had the time to look into it yet. Thanks for hearing me out and perhaps thinking about adding the feature in the future

[middlesea]

I like the idea of custom event names. It would be great if, instead of just one event “sprinkler”, there were different configurable events for each event. Perhaps identifiable information can be passed in the “values” to IFTTT.

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For those interested in pushing notifications to Telegram via IFTTT, this is an outline of how I do it:

1. First you need to create a telegram bot. You can find many detailed guides on how to do this by searching.
2. Find either your telegram ID # or add your bot to a group and find the group ID. Again you can find out how to get those numbers by searching.
3. Create a IFTTT Webhooks applet and choose receive web request with event name “sprinkler”
4. In the url field put “https://api.telegram.org/bot<YOUR BOT KEY HERE>/sendMessage”
5. Choose method “POST”
6. Choose content type “application/json”
7. The Body should look something like this:

{ “chat_id”: “<YOUR TELEGRAM USER # or GROUP ID #>”, “text”: “<Whatever Text or emojis you want here> {{Value1}}” , “disable_notification”: “true”}

The disable notification part can be removed if you want to have audible notifications, personally I don’t want to be beeped at about sprinklers..

Also you need to enable IFTTT integration in Open Sprinkler.

Cheers

[middlesea]

I tried unsuccessfully to set up a http station by putting <username>:password@<IP Address> in the server field and then putting my commands in the on and off fields. In the mean time I put a php file on a local web server to act as a go-between. It would be nice to accomplish this directly and eliminate having to go through another device. The device I am trying to communicate with is an ISY994i. It cannot be set up to work without a username/password.

Thanks

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