Thanks to Daniel Casner, a long time SIP user we now have a suite of plugins for connecting SIP to an MQTT broker.

MQTT is an emerging Internet of Things (IoT) protocol and these new plugins allow SIP to join the party.

You can install the plugins from the plugins manager under the PLUGINS menu.

Here is a link to mosquitto a free MQTT broker that runs on the Raspberry Pi and other platforms:
https://mosquitto.org/download/

Be sure to take a look at the instructions for installing mosquitto on Debian (ras Pi):
https://mosquitto.org/2013/01/mosquitto-...epository/

Dan

I have added a PDF file to the SIP wiki that lists the HTTP GET commands for controlling SIP.

The file can be downloaded at:
SIP HTTP GET Command Reference (download PDF)
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I would like to use a separate relay box that can be controlled by HTTP commands e.g. http://relaybox?relay1=on or http://relaybox?relay1=off
What would be the best way to implement this instead of using the "GPIO boards".

Hi All, 

I have a simple Toro 53769 Rain Sensor that normally operates Normally Closed by default.  I have it connected to BCM14 (Pin 6) and GND (Pin 8) on my Raspberry Pi 1. 

For some reason when it detects rain, the web interface goes from "Rain Sensed" on the main page, to "No Rain Sensed" when I refresh the page.    Is there any way in the logs to pinpoint if this is merely a cosmetic refresh issue, or if it really is flip-flopping between sensing/not sensing rain?  

Would it be better to configure the sensor to operate in Normally open mode?  (It's configurable)

Hi,

I've been successfully using the OSPi and SIP software for a couple years.  Thanks for providing it!

However, I recently git pulled updated code to try and solve a problem where my station names kept getting overwritten.  Now however, it doesn't seem to want to run at all.  I have even tried creating a fresh work area and tried to get it to run but it bombs out right away.  I'm hoping I'm missing something obvious to the experts, since I'm barely literate in Python. ( I'm using Python 2.7.3). 

Please have a look and let me know if you have a suggestion for a fix. Thanks!


Here is what I tried:
>git clone https://github.com/Dan-in-CA/SIP
>cd SIP
>sudo python sip.py

Here are the error messages I get:


Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "sip.py", line 28, in <module>

    gv.os_cname = subprocess.check_output(['lsb_release', '-c'])[10:-1]

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 537, in check_output

    process = Popen(stdout=PIPE, *popenargs, **kwargs)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 679, in __init__

    errread, errwrite)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1259, in _execute_child

    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Hi,
First up - huge thanks, great project, awesome software.

I have been hacking away at this and got the system setup using the relay_board plugiin to a relay that I had wired up myself.  I think I did something wrong and fried a Raspberry pi.

Wiht a new Raspberry Pi and the SD card from the previous Pi I was up running but this time with a 4 channel relay hat that uses I2C.  With Python code provided by the relay hat I can control the relays.

What I cannot do now is get this software to toggle the relay.  I have tried with the relay plugin and without but regrettably I am just not sure about what I am doing.  Couple of question that might point me in the right direction:

1.  With a relay hat and this software is the communication via I2C (is this even a properly formed question)
2.  Is there something I can change in the code that might make this work?

This is the relay hat that I have:
http://wiki.seeedstudio.com/wiki/Raspber...Board_v1.0

The software on the page above is working correctly on my device.

Any help is much appreciated.

Hi. 
First of all thanks for your great job. No problem during installation following standard procedure. 
I suggest an option to set START TIME  joined  with sunrise (plus minus delay) or with sunset (plus minus datail).  
It's an optimal option to control garden's lights and some particolar sprinkler. 
This ensures to irrigate early in the morning before the sun is too hot .
There are some algoritm wrote in pyton to calculate offline sunrise and  sunset (best choice in my opinion) or it is possible to dowload data from the web.
I've tryed first choice on my old selfmade pi irrigation system and it works perfectly. 
But your software is fantastic and would be great to have this option again.

Gianluca

Hi Dan,

I'm in the process of building a greenhouse monitor (temperature and humidity) using an old RPi 1. What I would like to be able to do is if the temperature gets above a threshold I'd like it to be able to run the greenhouse sprinkler for a set time to cool it down. This is already controlled by my SIP RPi Opensprinkler so preferably I'd like to be able to signal SIP via a formatted HTTP request.

Is this easily achievable?

Cheers
David

Hello everyone,

I don't if it is a feature already built-in or not but I would like to know if there is a way to just run programs now no matter what time it is.  I mean for example my programs are every 2 days starting with zone 1 at 06:00.  It is Monday at noon and I want to run the programs, is there a button to push to do that on the GUI or is it a valid feature request ?

Thanks,

René

I'm having a problem where only the first 7 stations work even though 8 show up in the interface. When I configured 8 stations in the WEB interface the last station doesn't work. It shows up but when I manually turn it on nothing happens. I know the relay works as I moved a working station wire over to it and it works fine. I don't have the startup script running yet but when the system comes up the LED's on the first 7 relays are on but very dim. As soon as I run SIP they all turn off. I have seen the 8th LED come on dimly during bootup. Is there something about pin 7 that's different than the rest? Station 8 is on pin 7 correct?

(Another problem I'm having is when I changed the number of stations to 10, only 8 show up.) Sorry just figured this one out had to add an extension board>

On the Rpi I get the following error message whenever I turn on any of the stations.

Problem switching replays list index out of range 2
Problem switching replays list index out of range 3

Hope someone can help my RainBird controller died yesterday and my lawn is going to be unhappy with me real soon. Thanks for the help.