I Dan

If someone use sip on a place without internet acess is possible to control SIP with bluetooth conection and use a RTC on raspi for the timer.

Best regards

Jose Correia

Hello,
only to say THANK YOU to the developer for this great projet.
SIP landed in Italy, to be more specific, in my backyard: provice of Vicenza (near Venice )
I have a Raspberry 2 B+ and an 8 relay board.
My installation use 6 valves, 4 for the green an 2 for flowers.
I'm very satisfied about easy and efficient of SIP.
I used a rain sensor also (NC)
Only a note about WU plugins. I'm not shure the position is correct because seems to give not coerent informations. But I dont have objective evidence, need to deepen test
Stefan

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Hi

 When i call the program    sudo python sip.py in the end i have this message

File"/home/pi/sip/web/wsgiserver/__init___.py", line 1753, in start
raise socket.error(msg)
socket.error:NO socket be created.

Best regards from Portugal

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Jose Correia

I had witnessed as problem on the sip;

when I had a program 2 ( valve 5) set to run from 1300 hrs to 1600 hrs, 
and another program 1 (valves 1,2,3) set to run from 1400 hrs to 1500 hrs,
 once the program 1 came to an end at 1500 hrs the master got switched of for 6 sec ( -6 sec is the time I have set on the configure master options) Any idea what causes this problem...and how to solve it?

Halo Dan,
Is it possible to add a feature to the system (plugin or other wise), where in the SIP would measure differential pressure between a filter inlet pressure Vs outlet pressure. Then start a back flush sequence of the filter based on;  

1. a pre-set pressure difference   (or) 
   
2. pre-set time duration of the system run  (or)
   
3. every time the SIP starts.
   

Hi Is there an installation menthod for getting an USB 3g/4g modem on Raspberry Pi?
I tried many methods and couldn't maki it work. Even a GSM module via a GPIO pins would do but preference would be USB dongle... .

Note: I am using OpenSprinkerPi with SIP on it.

I'm having a strange issue.

Just recently, my sprinklers are failing to start, after a couple of years with no issues. If I trigger a zone, I can hear the value start to open and water flow, but within a second it closes and the water flow stops. I tried resetting the white com wire, but didn't seem to make a difference.

I don't think it is an issue with the solenoids, because the same thing happens with every zone I try and trigger. Also, if I manual turn the solenoid on, it stays on.

Could it be the controller board? Or the power supply?

Hi
as far as i know raspberry pi can not keep its clock up to date since it has not RTC (real time clock) !
especially when it is not connected to internet (not contacting Online NTP servers !)
here is my issues :
i will be deploying SIP on a Rpi at a remote location with the following limitations :

1. no internet connection
   
2. no stable electricity (8 hrs daily)
   

I recently found the SIP program. Really complete program with all functionalities you might wish for!

Using a raspberry B+ and connecting both a 4 and 8 relay board with relay board plugin - and wiring as instructions on https://github.com/KanyonKris/relay_board/wiki works fine.

Now I want to add a DS3231 Clock Module so SIP will also work after power cut and without internet connection. This module uses pins 1, 3, 5 and 7 - which are also used by the standard relay board wiring.

So I tried to use other GPIO ports (changes in blue):
1 – 11
2 – 12
3 – 13
4 – 15
5 – 16
6 – 18
7 – 22
8 – 24
9 – 29
10 – 31
11 – 33
12 – 35

I also adjusted in relay_board.py the mapping:
original:
#        relay_pins = [11,12,13,15,16,18,22,7,3,5,24,26,29,31,32,33,35,36,37,38]
with:
        relay_pins = [11,12,13,15,16,18,22,24,29,31,33,35]

When I have relay boards connected at start-up the system doesn't work - website doesn't come up.

When I connect the power lines of relay boards (pin 2 and 4) after the system has started up and website is working then the relays do work as expected.
Also when manually starting up SIP (sudo python SIP) the system works fine.

...until a software reboot.
Then webbrowser comes with error message:
  SIP could not restart
  Please restart from the command line

On the command screen below error message is displayed:
Problem switching relays Please set pin numbering mode using GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) or GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) 11
Problem switching relays Please set pin numbering mode using GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) or GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) 12
Problem switching relays Please set pin numbering mode using GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) or GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) 13
Problem switching relays Please set pin numbering mode using GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) or GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) 15
Problem switching relays Please set pin numbering mode using GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) or GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) 16
Problem switching relays Please set pin numbering mode using GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) or GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) 18
Problem switching relays Please set pin numbering mode using GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) or GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) 22
Problem switching relays Please set pin numbering mode using GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) or GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) 24
Problem switching relays Please set pin numbering mode using GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) or GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) 29
Problem switching relays Please set pin numbering mode using GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) or GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) 31
Problem switching relays Please set pin numbering mode using GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) or GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) 33
Problem switching relays Please set pin numbering mode using GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) or GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) 35

After restarting from the command line SIP works again.

Any idea what is the problem and how to resolve this issue?

Thanks

Hi
while using SIP project is it okay to connect 8 channel relay directly to the raspberry pi 3 model B without power supply (will be powered via raspberry pi of course ) ? usually only one relay will be used at any given time 
your kind advise .