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Thanks Ray!

I have been running smoothly at 2.1.6 – same MicroSD and everything. I may try to upgrade again and check it out when I get some time.

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FYI –

I have solved the problem temporarily by moving back to 2.1.6 firmware. My OS is no longer resetting on reboot – so it looks like there’s a problem in 2.1.7?

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Salbahra – I thought that the redirecting & maintaining of the server items locally was a great feature – just wanted to chime in .

My main thought that I wanted to get across was I like the ability to decouple the device from the cloud if possible – which I know is there. That’s why i like the project =)

Appreciate your hard work!

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TechFan-

I don’t think you’re the only one – I actually have liked and chosen OpenSprinkler for the possibility of being able to control the device if the “rayshobby” website were to ever go down.

I understand the benefits of the cloud hosting and auto updates – but I have a fear that 5 or 10 years down the line the “cloud” part of the little gadget is gone.

I’d rather have the ability to host some of the content internal to my network (unlike NEST) so that my hardware doesn’t just lose configuration ability one day out of the blue.

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Thanks Ray-

That’s exactly what I was looking for (the json page)

Appreciate the reply – and yes, I’ve flashed mine up to 2.0.3. Looking at the threads regarding localizing the mobile app.

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Kris-

In Southern California (I know both San Diego and Santa Barbara do this) they release a “percentage” value weekly that is based on ET data.

Their philosophy is you set your sprinkler system to water based on a water calculator for JULY (highest amount of water) and the ET percentage will adjust from there.

See here:

http://www.sbwater.org/waterindex.aspx?id=450

For example – on my system they would suggest watering for about 32 minutes per week (per station) at the maximum.

Then, on lower volume weeks, the % value would adjust the watering time (open sprinkler already has a % value built in).

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Thanks-

You’ve pointed me in the right direction, you’re right I was overthinking.

I didn’t realize there was the water level percentage on my first readthrough. I might look into auto-setting that to 100% every night and then adjusting it before the programs kick off with an external server, but other than that, everything else will be perfect.

Looks like I’m gonna buy a new toy soon =)

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Nice-

Thanks, and I like the work you’ve done on your own external server app 🙂

I guess I was looking at the basic Arduino version and hadn’t looked into the raspi version as much. I wasn’t adverse to editing the arduino code to reset itself everynight (possibly) but I’ll look more into the raspi solution a bit, because your idea there sounds cool.

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Thanks for the response.

I guess the concern is if you have something that modifies the program externally, that would “stick” in the program as it exists in the timer, right?

In other words, let’s say I was playing with a web server and a script that checked the water index or a weather website and it saw it was going to rain, so set the watering level from 100% to 0%. Then the web server crashed and took a few days to get back working – that watering level would be stuck at 0 right?

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