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Well, it looks like my controller is getting the weather update, despite showing — for Last Successful Weather Call. We had rain today. My weather station read 1.13″ and the controller weather diagnostics shows 1.69″. I’m not sure why they are not the same, but at least it changed. These are the current values:
Min. Humidity 33%
Max Humidity 93%
Mean Temp 85 degrees F
Precip Yesterday 0″
Precip Today 1.69″
Adjstment Method Zimmerman
Current % watering 62%
Last Weather Call Thr, 06 Aug 2015 22:50:00
Last Successful Weather Call —Current % Watering is still 62%, like always.
Any ideas?
My Current% watering is always 62% – it seemed to work when I set it up, but it never changes any more, even though it has been hot and has not rained for a week. These are the current values:
Min. Humidity 32%
Max Humidity 96%
Mean Temp 85 degrees F
Precip Yesterday 0″
Precip Today 0″
Adjstment Method Zimmerman
Current % watering 62%
Last Weather Call Thr, 06 Aug 205 07:18:58
Last Successful Weather Call —I rebooted the unit but did not help. it looks like it is not getting a successful weather call. When I click on Verify Wunderground key it greys out the button for a couple of seconds and then it goes back to normal, with no message, so I/m not sure what the result was.
OK, I tried that and it is not complicated – just a different concept than the master valve, and the valves are not set up as “master” valves in the software.
My need as stated earlier in the thread is similar to the need of Rich and also to the need of Ian earlier in the thread. Basically, the current software allows you to associate one or two masters with a zone, but that is the same every time the zone is used. We need to open only one master at a time, but to be able to choose which one to open depending on the program or day. I want to normally use hard water to conserve softener salt, but then rinse all of my drip zones with soft water after use, to avoid calcium deposits. Ian and Rich want to choose RO or fertilizer as sources. Neither of us need to open two master valves for a single zone at the same time, it is either/or. Ideally, you could select the master for each zone within the program. Having to do this by controlling the master valve as a simultaneous program seems overly complicated and prone to mistakes.
I received my new open sprinkler controller with firmware 2.1.4, but it does not seem to do what I wanted. The only way of using the master valves seems to be to associate each zone with a particular master valve. On the other hand, I want use master 1 to water with hard water on all zones and then use master 2 to flush all zones with soft water. I can’t see a way to do that.
I am just designing my drip irrrigation system and thought that it would be a good idea to water mainly with hard water to save softener salt and then switch to softened water for a couple of minutes before shutting off each zone, so that hard water will not be left in the drip emitters to evaporate and clog them. It seems that this would be common practice for people with a water softener, but I’m not sure how to do it. Sounds like two master zone valves, hard and soft, would work, though, if I understand the concept of master zone.
