I've been running this for a couple of years.  Here's the setup:  There is a 19th-century dug well in my side yard.  In it, I have a 24V submersible pump.  The pump runs off a pair of 12V 26-AH lead acid batteries, which are kept charged with 2 100W solar panels and an MPPT Morningstar controller.  The pump is activated by a 24V DC relay fed by a full wave bridge rectifier.    24VAC
comes from the opensprinkler pi, is rectified by the bridge, and runs the relay.  The pump itself draws about 3A at 24V.  It lifts the water clear up to the top of the hill, about 70 feet above the well.

  Up the hill behind the house is our "exercise room" shed.  In it, a grey PVC box containing an Rpi 3, and an "Opensprinkler Pi" board.  It reliably connects to our home wifi.   At this time, there are four stations.  The irrigation control wire from the opensprinkler pi goes  50 feet from the shed to the fence.  Then it goes 100 feet up the fence to the  top of the hill.  The another 80 feet
across the top of the hill.  Then down the other side of the hill another 300 feet, where it arrives at the well station.  It's a lot of wire.

  I had the bright idea of making the wire colors match the standard resistor color code.  So station 1 = brown, 2=red, etc.

  Am in the process of stringing out a second cable to get more stations.  The original cable - each color ends at its station.  So if I bring a second cable up to the middle or so, I can regain
some of those wires...as I said, it's a LOT of wire.

  To do some software maintenance on that unit, I just had to take it apart, pull out the memory chip, stick it in another Linux box, and modify /etc/sudoers so I could get root access.

After installing and enabling (with restart) plug-ins, they do not show under the drop down menu under plug-ins. They are in the plug-in list with an activated mark. Especially SSD1306 and lcd_adj plug-in
Running latest version 4.1.10

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Hello!

I am looking at different open source sprinkler options for an irrigation/fertigation installation, for an indoor growing facility.
SIP looks pretty awesome, and the MQTT integrations and data logging etc. make it look a lot more flexible than commercial controllers.
And I am an RPI enthusiast so it's a big win

I have plants at different growth stages at the same time, with different nutrient formulations for different zones.

So I will have around 6 "master" stations that will be triggered for pump activation, for around 16 zones. Each zone will have a single master (source tank).

I haven't had a chance to set up SIP yet, I'm still planning the system. So forgive me if this is an easy question to answer once browsing the app, but I couldn't see the feature in the documentation....

- Is it possible to have more than one master station, and to select the master station for a zone in the UI?
- If it's not explicitly supported, has this challenge come up before, with a reasonable workaround?

I am not planning on using any hardware, just MQTT plugin to control PLCs around the facility that will work valves. So physical relays aren't a limitation.

Thank you, and great work developing this platform!!!

Hi all,

After updating to 4.1.10, I get an Internal Server Error when clicking on the Programs tab.  When I look at the programs.json page, I get the following.

Hi:

I'm obviously missing something basic as I try to set things up for the first time. SIP seems to be running fine on my pi-4 and I can create new programs and assign them to stations. But I cannot figure out how to assign a GPIO pin to a station. I was assuming I could do something like:

1. Assign any BPIO pin to a station (eg, say...pin 7/GPIO4 to S1)
   
2. Connect that pin to a relay
   
3. Connect that relay to the valve for S1
   

Hi Dan,

First of all thank you very much for all your work on this. I've been using it for many years.

I updated to the latest using the system update plugin yesterday. Now most of the GUI buttons don't work and scheduled runs aren't working. The home page doesn't show today's schedule but clicking the 'Next day' button (one of the few that works now) shows tomorrows schedule correctly.

The only other buttons that work for me now are the Plugins button and the System on, Normal, Active and Auto switches.

I last updated 1-2 months ago (I think) and everything was running fine. How can I force a reinistall and retain settings?

Cheers
David

First off I'd like to say I've always thought sprinkler controller designers have no clue how to design a system that normal people could make any logic of. So thanks to Dan for a simple and easy to understand Human interface. Also being able to turn a zone on/off from my phone without having to run back and forth from the control box to troubleshoot a problem is huge although I do get a lot wetter than I used to.  I'm in the process of migrating from a rPi 2 to a 3B, for some reason I ran out of memory. I'm not much of a Linux person but I am looking forward to using MQTT. 

I gutted the original Rain Bird box but saved their 24VAC transformer to run the sprinkler valves. There is a 5VDC wall wart behind the thin piece of plywood. I'm currently running 9 zones.

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I'm moving my SIP system from a rPi 2 to a 3B. I would like to know which files I need to move to my new system so I don't have to redo the config? I found a few promising files in the data folder but I'd like to know for sure. Thanks for the help.

My installation to control 4 stations :

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I want to be able to run a program through openhab which mqtt command do I have to send? and for what topic?

thanks in advance