[Phil Maron]

Thanks Ray. Will this be a firmware fix or something in the remote UI which if I understand it correctly is hosted elsewhere?

[Phil Maron]

Apparently not with my router 🙁

It just times out! My router provides only for source start and end ports but not destination ports and seems to require that source and destination are identical.

[Phil Maron]

OK, I hadn’t realised that. I had always assumed that the source and destination port must be the same. I’ll give it a try. Thanks again for the help

[Phil Maron]

OK, from testing a few ports I have found that the only workable option is to use port 80. This is fine as a short term solution but does not allow me to manage watering from remote locations as my router’s port forwarding capabilities are restricted to redirecting a port to an IP address. Have you got any suggestions as to what I could try?

[Phil Maron]

Resetting the router had no effect but setting the port to 80 did. I will try experimenting with a few other ports and see if there is a similar issue.

[Phil Maron]

Thanks Ray, I will try resetting my router and see if it makes any difference. In case it’s relevant, I have set my device to run on port 84 so if that fails I’ll try setting it back to port 80.

 

[Phil Maron]

I think that’s unlikely since I have used a number of browsers from a number of computers but what is returned is the following:

“wl”:19

“uwt”:1

[Phil Maron]

Clearly we have the same thought process Ray as I have already tried that to no avail a number of times. The percentage does not change. What seems odd is that it most certainly seems to be obtaining valid stats however, it seems unable to convert them to a meaningful percentage. It seems to somehow be cached or something and unable to be refreshed.

[Phil Maron]

Thanks Ray but I don’t think this explains the issue. To test, I noted the current watering percentage when set to Melbourne, Australia as 19%. I then changed the location under Edit Options -> Location to Darwin, Australia and clicked “Submit”. I then logged out for an hour before logging back in. I then checked that WUnderground diagnostics and noted the following:

Min Humidity: 33%

Max Humidity: 94%

Mean Temp: 84 Deg Farenheit

Precip Yesterday: 0.00

Precip Today: 0.00

Current Percent Watering: 19% 

Note that the percentage is still the same as it was when set for Melbourne yet the humidity and temperature readings are significantly different. The stats for Melbourne show:

Min Humid: 31%

Max Humid: 94%

Mean Temp: 58 Deg F

Precip Yesterday: 0.00

Precip Today: 0.00

Current % Watering: 19%

 

[Phil Maron]

Thanks for the reply Samer. Yes I have checked the diagnostics and different values are being returned every day except for the percentage which never changes. In order to check it I set it to 50% manually yesterday and then reverted back to using the Zimmerman formula. It still reads 50%.

P.S. This morning I have reset the device to factory defaults and gone through the setup process from scratch but I am still not confident. I set it up for Melbourne, Australia and it immediately set the percentage to 19%. To test whether it was now working I changed the location to Darwin, Australia where the weather would be about as different as you could get but the percentage remained at 19%. It seems to me that it will adjust the percentage on initial setup but not again after that.

[Phil Maron]

Great news. I will look forward to it. Thanks again.

[Phil Maron]

Thanks for the quick response Samer. Love your work just the same. Any idea on timing for the next version?

[Phil Maron]

With a bit of playing around I’ve managed to get it sorted out. I have no idea what happened but I had to reset the device back to factory default and start from scratch. This time it seems to be working. Thanks for your help anyway Ray.

[Phil Maron]

When I browse to that URL, all I get is a short string of text that reads :

{"fwv":210}

 

[Phil Maron]

I have just received my new OpenSprinkler preloaded with Firmware 2.1 but I am having problems with the time sync capabilities. I have set my location correctly to Melbourne, Australia but the time displayed appears to be Australian Eastern Standard Time rather than Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time. I have tried disabling the NTP option and manually setting the time and then setting it back to use NTP but it is always an hour out. I have also tried a number of different locations in the same time zone with similar results. At this stage I have set the time manually but I am wondering if this is a bug or is it simply ignoring DST. Any help would be appreciated.

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