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@Peter, OK why not trying to do it with a Py but I am not so familiar with it ! I have few of them but never manager to do something like that ! I nee a step by step tuto !
But firstly, please confirm that I will not have to set the Py on top of my opensprinkler hardware ?
Then could you tell me how I can be certain that my Weatherflow station is compatible with the system that you propose ? Because I went to the forum https://community.weatherflow.com/ and surch for opensprinkler but I found only my post !
Then with DarkSky or https://openweathermap.org/ will ti be campatible with my waertherflow station ?
Sorry many questions before starting but I would like to be certain that it could work with my hardware before spending hours/days ….I have an underground account associated to my weather station weatherflow. However, I do not how to associate my opensprinkler with underground. please help
I modified in the past the location in opensprinkler in order to set the ID of weather underground for my location. Since I have my own weather station from weatherflow could I use it for the rain ? My weather station is already registered under weather underground. But, unfortunatelly as I setuped few years ago my opensprinkler I do not know where I could change this setup for the weather. Then there is IFTTT but how could I use ? Hardware version = 2.3AC and firmware 2.1.7
Another alternative would be for user to take advantage of personal weather station already in place at home. I have a weather station from (https://weatherflow.com/smart-home-weather-stations/) that could be used for rain detection as well but what is still important is to know the amount of rain fall in order to properly delay the spray.
@Ray, Thanks for your reply. It would be very interesting to have a function that take more advantage of the rain sensor by:
– if the cumulative time between X and Y (over a period of time) is above T then we could delay the sprinkler by H hours –> and this could be parametered by user based on the observation because if it rain 1 hour or 6 hours since the last spray it is not the same as it would have rain during 5 hours. The soil will need less water in the second case that on the first. So delaying the spray is more inportant on the second case than on the first case.Having also a graph of rain time based on rain sensor would be good as well (only duration of rain and not a cuimulative one).
Definitively this is something that would had value to the system.
@robî, sorry but I would like to know how rain sensor is working ? For example if it is raining during 10 minutes or 3hours it will not be the same. So how the system take into consideration the rain sensor ? Does it monitor how long the sensor is closed in order to know the duration of rain or is it detecting only the first time that is closed and then apply a delay of x hours ? On my configuration setup I am allowed to change the delay to restart the programs. But I definitely do not understand how rain sensor is working on OpenSprinkler. Please help me !
