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Those features are only shown when using the Unified Firmware. For more information, please see: https://opensprinkler.com/forums/topic/announcing-opensprinkler-unified-firmware-2-1-3-for-avrrpibbblinux/

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@rongross The discussion in this thread is regarding automatic weather adjustments. There are only two ways a controller can reasonably do this: direct weather data via a weather station or online weather data from public weather stations. OpenSprinkler achieves automatic weather adjustments using the online method.

Therefore, this portion of the controller operation reaches out and grabs an adjusted watering level for the user selected method (eg. Zimmerman) and for the local weather at that time. Now keep in mind, the controller only polls for this value at intervals and stores the value locally meaning it will still have all the information locally to run without a connection. The default watering level is 100% and based on weather conditions the algorithm will scale between 0 to 200% which adjusts the duration of each stations run time.

I hope this helps!

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The next firmware release will be cross platform meaning it will also support the Pi and Beagle variants. This brings all the Arduino features to those platforms such as zone-level scheduling.

In regard to Evapotranspiration, we have designed the weather adjustments to be able to handle new methods such as ET quite quickly. We are currently working on a method which uses ET and hope to have it available soon.

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Of course however the firmware is designed with hardware constraints and furthermore backward compatibility with previous apps and UIs. Maintaining the compatibility is mostly why things proceed the way they do in regard to the API.

Looking forward, we plan on fixing this and hopefully will do soon.

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The /co command is a bit tricky because omitted variables are interpretted as disabled and therefore certain options get turned off. This includes DHCP which is likely getting switched off and causing connectivity issues. The following variables are the compelete list that are handled in the same fashion:

o2 – NTP
o3 – DHCP
o21 – Use rain sensor
o22 – Rain sensor type
o25 – Ignore password

If any of these are not provided to /co they will be disabled or turned off.

Hope this helps,
Samer

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Hi @mejutty,

Are you using a proxy with SSL? If so, the certificate has to be valid and trusted by the device or it will fail. That is something I have personally run into.

Otherwise, the app is the same code for both Android and iOS so not sure what could be the cause. If you use Safari to access the IP:Port, does the web interface load?

Thanks

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Hi Emiliano,

Yes that transformer would work with OpenSprinkler.

The large enclosure should be no problem either.

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Yes that is actually possible and should work just fine.

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Which OpenSprinkler device do you have specifically? I ask because only hardware 2.1 needs to enter bootloader mode. If you are using version 2.0 then you don’t need to enter a bootloader mode.

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Also, just to add, the application does check the latest firmware and let’s you know if an update is available. It will also show you a change log so you can see what’s new/changed. This shows up on the home screen as a green bar under the header and tapping it allows you to see the changelog and dismiss the notification.

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Thew new expansion board will work just fine with the OSPi v1.1.

Based on how the software works, the new expansion board is the equivalent of two expansion boards.

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There’s also the issue of increased heat production with a higher clocked processor. Something to consider…

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Would you mind letting me know the location so I may troubleshoot why the time is incorrect for your location?

Thanks.

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It depends on your current weather conditions. However, if the weather adjustments got switched off, the watering percentage would stay where it last was.

You can use the “Weather Diagnostics” from the side panel to check your current weather conditions and current watering percentage.

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The right side of the graph has a second y-axis labeled “% Water” This represents the day’s watering percentage which is particularly useful if you are using an automatic weather adjustment. This will scale your watering each day to the weather conditions and this lets you correlate the two (run time and watering percentage).

Hope that helps!

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Okay, I will look into this but it’s basically an issue with the flot library and probably the way i’m loading the data into the library. I will look and see what’s going on but as you can see in the “table” view the data is correctly labeled as January and February (instead of February and March). I will post back once I have some more information or a fix.

Thanks!

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Does the timeline or table view echo the wrong time/dates?

Just want to make sure this is a visual error and not an error in the actual date/time.

Thanks!

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Do you mind attaching a screenshot? The way the graph works is an empty placeholder is made for every zone and therefore plotted bars get moved over based on the number of zones.

Does the timeline or table view echo the wrong dates?

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Are you using the browser or the app from the marketplace? If you are using the app, which version of the app are you using?

Version 1.2.6 had a bug with Firefox that could possibly cause issues however the 1.2.7 update resolved that for Firefox. Please check if this might be the issue.

Thanks!

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Hi Patrick,

You need to be using the external IP address in order to access the OpenSprinkler outside of the WiFi network (eg: cell network). The other caveat is the OpenSprinkler port must be port forwarded through your router.

The external IP can be found at http://wimi.com or typing ‘ip’ into Google.

To port forward your OpenSprinkler, you will need to identify your router model and consult it’s documentation for opening a port. The default port is 80. Some guides are available here: http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm. If you need assistance let us know.

Thanks,
Samer

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Glad it’s working now, thanks for the report!

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Please delete your log file and try again. The bug fix prevents future errors however the program has already inserted incorrect data into your log and must be manually cleaned out.

Thanks

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Sounds just like this issue: https://opensprinkler.com/forums/topic/log-display/

Could you please update your OSPi to include today’s changes and see if your issues are resolved.

You will likely have to delete the existing log file in order for new entries to work.

Thanks

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Okay, thank you Phil for all the detail. I have identified the issue which was a miscalculation of the bounds of the graph. Before, the max was calculated as the start time + duration time. This never made sense because the duration is visualized vertically meaning there is no reason to extend out the max bound.

I have since fixed that in this commit: https://github.com/salbahra/Sprinklers/commit/157afd8f057aeaf54ea21b6405813c8a36d0d036. I will have this released in the next app update (~1 week).

This should fix all the graphical glitches you had showed me and allow unchecking of the “Rain Sensor” in the legend to rescale the graph and show the correct view.

In regard to deleting a specific day, I should have this functionality in there within the next update as well.

Thanks!

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I have finally found a fix to this issue and will have it released in the next version. Sorry for the long delay.

Fix: https://github.com/salbahra/Sprinklers/commit/37388b6200ab1cbf6bcda9074963f061deccf4d4

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