So I have my setup working great with the relay board plugin.  I had read in another thread about potentially using the rf control plugin to run basic http or API commands to control other stations.  I have it set up now where I have a few 'outlying' stations that are hooked up to ESP8266's for running their relays.  So far I just run/schedule these via cron on my raspberry pi and that has worked well but it would be nice to be able to also have those show up and be controlled via SIP.  I had installed the rf_control plugin and it looks fairly straightforward to modify it to use http commands to turn the valves on/off but will it be able to work alongside the relay board plugin?  And if so how would I modify the config to do that?  Any ideas would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Is there a way to backup all user settings? I have looked hi and low and have not found any way shy of copying the SIP folder.
Thanks for any help!
Harry

I build the diy relay board circuit and soldered up a compact little board, seems to work great. 

I am powering the Raspberry Pi with a regular orbit brand 24VAC power supply and bought a little power buck converter from amazon to help power the relays separately from the Pi. I split the 24VAC from the power supply to the relays and the little buck converter board I linked to. The 24VAC runs directly to the relays for the valves, and the other side is converted to 5VDC for the relays.

Somehow overnight my power supply burns out.

I am not sure if my soldering caused the problem. I noticed once in a while ALL the relays are activated, maybe this condition burns out the power supply if left unchecked for too long? I can't find a reliable way to force the condition, but it never happens when the 24VAC is not connected...

I think my next test is with three different power supplies. Once for the pi, one for the relays, and one for the valves.

Any help or ideas are appreciated!

Thanks,

David

So I purchased a 16 station TIAO Smart Network Sprinkler Controller with LCD display. It has opensprinkler installed on it. How do i go about installing SIP on it? I installed SIP on an SD card using a RasPi and placed it in the SD slot, but i can not SSH into it or pull up SIP via port 80.


Thanks for any help!
Nathan

Hi,
I have two programs with following settings:

Software version: 3.2.20 (2017-06-08)

enabled Plugins:
mobile_app
mqtt
mqtt_schedule
mqtt_zones
relay_board
signaling_examples
system_update

Relay Board settings: 9
Low is checked

Station handling:
sequential is checked
Individual duration is checked
Extension boards: 1
station delay: 0

Use Rain Sensor (normally closed) is checked

Stations 1 ... 8 are valves
Stations 9 is the master (pump)

Program 1: Every Weekday
Run: (ge) Liguster Kirschlorbeer Obst (bn) Büsche Nord (vt) Himbeeren (ws) Terrasse
Starting: 07:30 with individual station durations
for 00 hrs 51 mins 30 secs until 08:21




Program 2: Every 2 days
Run: (rt) Wiese West (bl) Wiese Nord (gn) Wiese Süd
Starting: 06:00 with individual station durations
for 01 hrs 05 mins 00 secs until 07:05


I my opinion each program should start maximal only once a day.
But every day Programm 1 starts twice. First on 07:30:00 as I wished and then a unknowable second run at 08:21:31 .

e.g. the protocol of today:

Is it possible to run SIP and OpenSprinkler PI software simulataneosly for one device...
One software standby ... another operational.

I am looking for transition path from OpenSprinkler to SIP.

SF

Hi All,

Not the most sophisticated setup but here is mine.
We have a city garden with 5 separate drip sections. All is controlled by SIP, a relay board and 5 hunter valves.
Also I started to do some experimental integration with the home automation system via node-red and mqtt. More on that later. 

Some pictures below

--Gerard


The electronics



The wet area (hopefully not too wet because everything is inside the workshop)



The soft side of the story


Some experimental integration with home automation. Works fine so far

Hi,

It seems timing when individual station times is activated is not behaving as thought it would. 
I'm programmed 4 valves with 2 x 45 and 2 x 60 minutes. When the program starts (with run now) I get 4 x 30 minutes.

Did I made a mistake or is there something not working as expected at the moment?

--Gerard

The settings are:
 

Hi All,

Since this is my first post I'll would like start with a thank you to all of you for creating SIP. I almost started to make my own irrigation system but found SIP just in time.

As a fan of mqtt I want to make intensive use of it. However when the broker is (temporarily) not available, due to system startup or other causes, and returns back online the zone publishing is stopped. Only after restarting SIP the publishing of messages will work again.

Does anyone recognise this issue and even better, knows how to solve this?

Thanks,
--Gerard

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Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3 B
OS: DietPi (Raspbian 8 jessie)
SW: msquitto, node-red, SIP (3.2.5)

Hi all, 

I have been using SIP for some time, and have been allowing it to run in it's own screen session so that I can take a look at console log messages.   Is there a way to turn off some of the less important console logging messages?   I assume some of these are from the webserver cherrypi, however, I cant find where to limit the verbosity of the messages.  Here is an output of the messages I would like to squelch as they are occurring 100's of times per minute:

[21/May/2017 08:06:53] "HTTP/1.1 GET /rss" - 200 OK
[21/May/2017 08:06:53] "HTTP/1.1 GET /rss" - 200 OK
[21/May/2017 08:06:54] "HTTP/1.1 GET /rss" - 200 OK
[21/May/2017 08:06:54] "HTTP/1.1 GET /rss" - 200 OK
[21/May/2017 08:06:55] "HTTP/1.1 GET /rss" - 200 OK
[21/May/2017 08:06:55] "HTTP/1.1 GET /rss" - 200 OK
[21/May/2017 08:06:56] "HTTP/1.1 GET /rss" - 200 OK
[21/May/2017 08:06:56] "HTTP/1.1 GET /rss" - 200 OK
[21/May/2017 08:06:57] "HTTP/1.1 GET /rss" - 200 OK
[21/May/2017 08:06:57] "HTTP/1.1 GET /rss" - 200 OK