Hi!

I have just installed SIP and sold the old Hunter controller. We live by a small river not far from the sea. Depending on the current in the river and the wind at sea we sometimes have fresh water and sometimes saltwater in the river. 

As our well for the irrigation is not giving enough water I decided to take water for the irrigation from the river. But using saltwater for irrigation is not good at all, don’t ask me how I know... Therefore I bought an electrical conductivity meter and I have written a plugin for SIP to check the salinity level of the water in the river. 

The plugin acts more or less as a rain sensor for now. It’s stops the running programs and reports rain sensed to the main SIP program. This is not optimal as what I really want to do is to postpone the program 24 hours and try to run the next night. Is there a way to do this? Optimally I would just let the programs to run every third night, postponing if salt is detected. 

My second question is about getting information about the next scheduled programs start time. To prolong the life of this expensive probe the plugin is only checking the salinity level 15 minutes before the program starts and goes to sleep when the program is finished. This is right now hard coded into the plugin, which is not a very elegant solution. Is there a way to get information about the start time of the next program before it starts? The sensor needs some time to calibrate itself before getting correct readings. Also I don’t want salt water in the system if possible.

Thank you for any input!

A new plugin named combine_stations has been added.

It allows multiple stations to be combined and run at the same time (concurrently) while SIP is in sequential mode.

Hi

What is the maximum number of zones available?

I would like to go beyond 16.

Was hoping to go with OSPi but after numerous failed attempts to make contact with OpenSprinkler I am now looking for other options for my back yard project.

Thanks

I think it would be a good idea to integrate this project to be able to control the relays using mqtt from other platforms as a home assistant.

do you expect to integrate at least mqtt?

Hi,

is there any way to control two system SIP's with MQTT slave plugin installed without having a SIP master?
I'm trying to find the way to integrate SIP into my home assistant and manage the zones with directly MQTT?


thanks!

Anyone else having issue with OpenSprinkler iPhone app to control SIP?

It used to work fine but now it will not connect up to my TAIO Sprinkler Pi relay board using a PiZeroW.

I can still use a web browser on the phone to control, so its not a major issue, just liked the convenience that the app gave.

Would be nice to be able to have a single program handle sequential and concurrent sprinkler zones.

For example, I would like to be able to run zones 1-5 sequentially, then run zones 6 and 7 concurrently, etc.  The only way I see to do that is to not have sequential zones checked off and then create individual programs for each zone with start times and durations.  So, Program 1 (zone 1) would start at 00:00.  Program 2 (zone 2) would then start at 02:00 for 2 hours, etc thru Zone 5 for the sequential zones.  Then Program 6 (zone 6) would come on at let say 08:00 for 30 mins.  Program 7 (zone 7) would also come on at 08:00 for 30 mins.

So, I create several programs to handle this scenario.  It would be convenient if, within a single program, one could link 2 or more zones together as one while the others are sequential.  Makes editing programs much easier and also easier to perform a "run now" to run all my zones in the way I need to.

I have a few flower bed zones running mostly drippers that I need to link together.  If I run them individually, the pump is putting out quite a bit of pressure and getting close to blowing seals.  I can also put a jumper between two zones on my TIAO Sprinkler Pi board, but was wondering if its possible to do this in software.

I have the following plug-ins activated:


mqtt
mqtt schedule
mqtt slave
mqtt zone broadcaster
weather_level_ad

when I activate the last plug-in, all the other plug-ins seem to stop working. here log with error:

On raspberry display work good (RASPBERRY PI 4, Relay board-16, SSD1306 OLED Display, SIP version: 4.027).
but plugin don,t (no message at all). Any help ? 
command: i2cdetect -y 1
shows following sreen:

0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f
00:          -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 3c -- -- --
40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Hi,

im trying to use the mqtt plugins but seems that I'm having issues starting the service: