Hello,
I noticed the plugin saying mobile app but found nowhere any instructions/explanations.
Is there any app for mobiles (iOS or android)?

Hello everyone

i just completed setting up my irrigation system using PI-3 and this awesome software.
Thanks everyone for sharing this great project. 

i have one issue with setting up a master station.

when i don't use a defined master station i can operate the a certain station ( say S02)  by manually opening both the master valve and S02
so i assume my electrical setup is fine

when i define a master station and try to open S02 using run-once or even manual mode the master valve doesn't open
even the status view shows it as off ("MASTER OFF")

am i doing something wrong? 
should i disable manual mode while i define a master station ? 

Thanks a lot

Yehuda

Hi Everyone 

I just got the SIP server up and running on a brand new PI 3 connected to a board with 8 relays
I have to say this project is really great. made my life really easy. 

i managed to login to the website and tried to manually enable stations but i can't figure out  the GPIO pin mapping

how can i tell what GPIO pin controls what station. ?

Thanks a lot 

Yehuda

Is there a reason Programs only allow a single time length for all zones?

I know you could write multiple programs, but for example my back yard has 2 zones that cover it using different sprinkler heads compared to my single zone front yard, so the two rear zones run a different amount of time then my one front zone. 

I could see were a single time entry could be useful, but in my case it's more complicated.

Any thoughts on adding a toggle switch for something like picking between "single zone length" or "custom zone lengths", and custom zone lengths would add a time field next to any enabled zones, right before the monday column?

I already dived into the code, doesn't seem like it'd be too difficult to add.  From what I can tell of plugins and such, this would need to be a core change and not a plugin (didn't seem like plugins are designed to modify/patch existing pages/extend existing features?).  

Probably worst part would be deciding on how the JSON should be formatted in the programs.json file. 

I'd be happy to take a stab at it and submit a pull when ready, if it's something that seems like a good feature.

Hi there!
          As Im finishing my SIP controlling box and I found some spare time, Its time to show my SIP project...
 
           The SIP box will control the irrigation of half an hectare  (1.23 Acre ) in Arica, Chile, where it never rains and we are completely dependent on the irrigation.
 In the land we have almost 50 olive trees, 20 fruit trees (mangoes, chirimoyo, citrics, etc),  20 meters of passion fruit, 1000 square meters of vegetable orchard. All of those need different amount of water at different schedules, as we are not living there yet and it's 15kms away, it a major pain in the .....  We are now loosing almost 10hs weekly just to keep the plants with water! 

 To irrigate, we have a pond that receives water once a week, a 2HP pump and a mainline ring around the land of 63mm PVC Pipe. From that ring now we take 50mm pipe sidelines with manual valves and finally a awful mesh of  1/2 inch pipe to the drip irrigators. 

 As we now have a clear plan on how to use the land, we added 4 manifolds to the mainline ring with 4 1inch electro-valves each, dividing the land in 4 big sectors.  From there we plan 13 irrigation zones, keeping 3 for future use (most likely for some sprinklers when we finally build our house there)

(I will post some pictures of the hydraulics later)

Now, finally, the control box:



 This two buttons are the last thing that i'm coding, I need to manually stop SIP and start the well pump. Im extending the lcd_adj plugin to do this, I will post the code it as soon as is ready.

Its guts:



On the left the i2c LCD,  3G modem, i2c GPIO Extension extension and below a Raspberry PI.  There is some room to eventually add a i2c A/D converter and add some sensors.
The modem will be only used with the sms_adj plugin and a simple script to put the internal clock on time. I found that It do not worth the effort to put the box online.

On the right the Relay Boards, the 24vAC transformer andtwo 5v power sources, one 2amp for the PI and a 1amp for the relays and GPIO extender, with only one, the PI would hang when I open more than 5 relays at the same time. 

I did some soldering under the relays to make all share the 24Vac current, as they all be driving valves:




The software is a fork of SIP that Im working with Dan to integrate it to upstream, the code is in GitHub


I will be installing the box in the next couple of weeks, I hope everything goes as planned and I do not blow all my pipes or kill the pump...


 The next planned upgrade is to add a pressure sensor to monitor the hydraulics and prevent that the pump or the pipes gets damaged.

  Here Im thinking in using and independent system based on an arduino, to monitor the pressure and a additional relay to cut the power to the pump. I could event connect the arduino to the Pi with i2c to log the pressure and stop SIP in case of problems.

The other upgrade planned is to add another relay to drive a valve that injects some liquid fertilizers  that are needed for the olive trees.

I will post later some details of the hydraulic and, hopefully the final installation onsite.

Regards

--
Matias - Arica, Chile
matiasv@gmail.com
https://github.com/Pelado-Mat/

Hi everyone,
                Im playing with the idea of controlling my SIP installation remotely with a Telegram.org bot. Something in the lines of the sms_adj plugin.

Anyone interested in helping?

https://github.com/Pelado-Mat/SIP_telegramBot

Regards

Not really sure if this is a feature request or a plugin suggestion, sorry if I mispost. I created a github issue
https://github.com/Dan-in-CA/SIP/issues/143
to add flow metering into SIP:

"Thanks for this wonderful application.

I have a Seed Studio flow meter http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/G12-Wat...p-635.html hooked into my raspberry pi.

I am using wiringpi like the code posted here https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt...37&t=94656 to set up an interrupt handler and increment a counter. I see how I can write this as a so and read the counter from Python. I would like to get feedback in SIP about overall flow rate and expected vs actual flow rate (to detect leaks). What would be a strategy to get this into SIP? I see the way the clock time is updated, should I hook into that and update another div under it?

Note that I have not calibrated the flow meter, from some preliminary tests it seems the meter peaks out at about 100 pulses per second, so this might not be an accurate way to measure water quantity rather a qualitative go-no go check of the system, an arduino and maybe a better meter may be needed to get accurate measurements, but that is a different issue."

In response, someone suggested using the functions 'callback' and 'tally' from the pigpio interface library instead of a c-function
Any other thoughts?
Matti

Hi,

Recently after having a faulty SD card I did a complete fresh install; Raspian Jessie, SIP and the mobile app. I thought this may have cured a recurring problem that I have with the weather_adj plugin. It works for several days and then just stops making requests to wunderground. It will usually start again if I reboot the system but a few days later it will start having issues again. I thought the complete rebuild would fix it but it is happening again. Is there any way to log requests and results for the plugin?

Another issue that I have with it is when I try to turn it on in by enabling "Use Automatic Rain Delay:" it gives me an HTTP 500 error. I had to enable it by editing the .json file.

Thirdly when it was working the other day it correctly told me that a rain delay was in force until 5.00 pm the next day, when I checked it around 11.00 pm it still said that (18 hours to go) but at 8.00am the next morning no delay was in effect. This issue and the first one I have had occur for quite some time.

I've attached a screen grab of the wunderground graph. It's only logged one request today.

Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot would be welcome.

Best Regards
David

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At The outset ... Great Project ....

Following the instructions given for using A relay Board wit SIP, I have got 8 Relays up and running....

Kudos to the team...

However, I have no idea how to program additional 4 Relays since the SIP GUI has provisions for only 8 Stations.

Please guide ..

Deepak

Plugin to count down a sprinkler system turning on to allow small children to run from the lawn before the sprinkler system turns on spraying them, freezing them in panic, and then devolving into a crying wet pile.