Hi, im from spain, i have got my installation working now for 2 months but i just discovered this forum. As this section is empty i will start showing my setup, i am open to any ideas to improve it.

My setup has to controll 4 zones, as extra i also controll the garage door.

This is my Raspberry B+  and an 8 chanel rellay board



To hold both components inside the box I designed and 3D printed a support. The relay board is slightly tilted so that its easier to connect the cables.
Some renders of the design, and how its spected to look like:






After 8 hours of printing, i had my piece:

looks cool in orange

The raspberry mounted on the piece:





Everything inside the waterproof box


Once all GPIOs were wired it was time to connect it to the valves.
I use  24V AC valves from my old system.

A fifth relay will be used to open and close the garage door, as my motor has an open/close input

The wiring is nearly done
The black-taped cable will be the 24V AC input and the white cable will hace the outputs to the valves, and the garage door.




I retired my old timer, and in its place i screwed my new super-timer.


This is how it finally looks when its all closed:

I am getting socket.error: No socket could be created after installing sip.  The error seems almost identical to "Socket Issue After forcing Exit Issue 112" posted by Tails86 on June 30.  I've tried removing the SIP directories, rebooting, recloning, but same results.  Any help/suggestions greatly appreciated - Thank you, 

pi@raspberrypi ~/SIP $ sudo python sip.py
plugins loaded:
  mobile_app
  plugin_manager
  signaling_examples
  system_update
zones changed
[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
Starting timing loop

http://0.0.0.0:80/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "sip.py", line 229, in <module>
    app.run()
  File "sip.py", line 163, in run
    return web.httpserver.runsimple(func, ('0.0.0.0', port))
  File "/home/pi/SIP/web/httpserver.py", line 157, in runsimple
    server.start()
  File "/home/pi/SIP/web/wsgiserver/__init__.py", line 1753, in start
    raise socket.error(msg)
socket.error: No socket could be created

hi,

I have been thinking that could be helpful add a small dashboard in home with quick view of status of system:
CPU
Memory
Plugin adjustments, rain..
delay timers of rain..
weather local status

thanks!

could be good idea if we can see in the menu home page, a weather condition of the local SIP system


ciao!

hi ,

I'm getting next error with this plugins:

Skipped wundergound data because of a parsing error for today

Using 9 days of information.
Water needed (9 days): 38.3mm
Total rainfall       : 0.0mm
_______________________________-
Irrigation needed    : 38.3mm
Weather Adjustment   : 106.4%




Someone know what means..??

THANKS!!

Hi,

I`m getting a next error:

internal server error

when I try to update SIP system with the "update-plugin", installed by default. I'm getting this error only if I try to update with my native language, spanish, if I try to do that with english I can update without problems.

by the way , working with SIP-tool-web in spanish language there are some features of web tool that look doesn't works as I expected, for example, If I try to do a reset system, only software, I get a "warning notice" that the system service is restarting but the website never updated automatically and I need to force enter in a home of website.

Other things that could be great to fix is that the "fields/options" of menu, in other languages don't fit with the menu .

and to finish I think could be good idea if we can see in the menu home, a weather condition of the local SIP system


at the moment with version versión: 3.1.15 (2015-08-17)


thank you so much for your time and congratulation for your work!

Alfredo Ocaña (Spain) has contributed updated Spanish language files. They are included in version, 3.1.15 and newer on GitHub.

Thank you Alfredo!

I would like to recast the implementation to use pigpio library rather than direct GPIO calls.  This requires the library to be installed and running as part of the installation but then likely allows the rest of the program to run without root privileges.

This would involve changes to gpio_pins.py and plugins/relay_board.py.

I have already made changes to relay_board and they seem to work fine.  I am happy to make the other changes, but I am not sure how to deal with the installation piece.

Thoughts?
-brian

The way I got it installed on my system was:

wget abyz.co.uk/rpi/pigpio/pigpio.zip
unzip pigpio.zip
cd PIGPIO
make
make install
get or create /etc/init.d/pigpiod from somewhere
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/pigpiod
sudo update-rc.d pigpiod defaults
sudo update-rc.d pigpiod enable