[pothibo]

Hi there, I’m a ruby on rails developer as well and glad you started a project in rails. However, you might want to be careful with memory allocation on the Pi. Rails isn’t really friendly on RAM. Pi rev1 only has 256mb Ram.

As for the the interval scheduling, I used on my project a start date, with an interval. Ie: Monday 9th June 2013 6:00AM. Every week. I use a runloop to check sqlite if I have a matching interval and then open the relays with the matched scheduled. I don’t know if it makes sense.

Good luck !

[pothibo]

Hey guys,

I’m glad to see some people thinking of using the Pi for their sprinkler, I just wanted to let you know that I started a project in Go lang to handle the Pi with the Open Sprinkler. You might want to have a look.

http://pothibo.com/index.php/2013/05/31/control-your-sprinklers-on-your-raspberry-pi/

I know Go is a young language but so far, I’ve been happy with the results. If you end up giving my project a go and you need help, don’t hesitate!

[pothibo]

I have updated the project on github this morning with a somewhat major update. The installation is now much easier to understand.

I also blogged a tutorial on how to install it on your Raspberry Pi:

http://pothibo.com/index.php/2013/05/31/control-your-sprinklers-on-your-raspberry-pi/

If anybody needs help installing it, I’ll gladly answer any question I receive

[pothibo]

Have you tried to launch the code without rebooting?

I’m a bit rusted with rc.local. Did you try starting it manually and print the error log here?

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