Hi Dan and all community,

It is possible to manual turn on/off a valve from a plug-in?
If yes when I turn on/off any valve a signal is realize to another plug-ins?

Thanks,

Pedro Santos

Hi Dan,

Had some down time and thought I'd play with MQTT / MQTT_Hass. Mostly all good, took a few pip3 adventures to get the right paho/slugify updates; I might have a junk install with incorrect service setup etc. from years of updates!

When I trigger a run-once from HASS, the station and master starts correctly. Stop the station from HASS and the Master stays running. Stop all stations resets things.
 
[Heh, ask me how I eventually found my weakest bit of piping and then the master still running  ]

Thanks !

PS: I see your Python3-only update is very much in progress; you are a legend for continuing to support this!!

Hi,

SIP is a very interesting software because it can create an professional irrigation system from a raspery pi.
My idea is to become SIP even more versatile. If the number of output could be variable.

Each output it would be interesting to be configurable:
 - use http command for example for SHELLY or an SONOFF device in the local network
 - MQQT command to activate the valve.
 - more industrial irrigation need to activate pumps, for example in my case i have an shelly 1 device to activate pups.
 - same other valves must be activate to have weather in the valve´s NODE.
 - possible same implementation could be done in an Linux machine, no GPIO no be needed. Add possibility to disable GPIO at all.

I am a programmer, my question is how interesting for the community of this feature?
To do this I need to change the core on the program or an plugin solve the problem?

Thanks,

Pedro Santos

Hi,

Please excuse the naivete  of this question.
Is it possible to set up SIP to run on a Rpi pico?

Hi,

I'm neew to Python and RPi
I was looking for a way to replace my garden watering computer and decide to try using RPi
I started writing my own code and then found SIP. It meets my needs perfectly.
I successfully set up SIP on a Zero W. (I haven't actually connected the relays yet - still waiting for them to arrive, but it runs my LEDS just fine.)
The web interface is fantastic.
Thank you so much.

I live in a region with a rainy and a dry season.  During the height of the rainy season (which sadly is getting shorter and shorter) the watering system is simply off. During the dry season it is on. I am looking for a way to modulate the system during  transitions between seasons.

I noticed that there is an option for a rain sensor. I assume that is to delay watering.
I see there is a weather plugin as well.

Two questions:

Can I use a soil moisture sensor in place of a rain sensor?

Where can I read about the weather plugin?

Thanks again for all your kind help

Nanogeek

Hi, I am trying to send an MQTT message to run once and having no luck and out of ideas. I have tried variations of the following and not getting anywhere.
mosquitto_pub -d -h localhost -p 1883 -t SIP/schedule -m '{"S01":0, "S02":5, "S03":0, "Drip":5}'
Client mosqpub|376-otis sending CONNECT
Client mosqpub|376-otis received CONNACK
Client mosqpub|376-otis sending PUBLISH (d0, q0, r0, m1, 'SIP/schedule', ... (37 bytes))
Client mosqpub|376-otis sending DISCONNEC


My zones are being published, so SIP is talking to my broker. But no logs that I can find to give me hints on what is wrong.

So my question is, if I want to execute a run once from MQTT, what am I doing wrong.

Please help.
Thanks,
Chris

The documentation of the sip_email plugin might suggest that only Gmail can be used but any smtp server will work.
So either a self hosted or like most users have an account of their internet provider, this will work too.

--Gerard

Ian Harris has contributed a new Flow sensor plugin.
It can display flow rate and water used in real time and also provides a log of water use.
It requires SIP to be running under Python3.


The documentation can be read at:
https://github.com/IMHarris/SIP_plugins/wiki

In a recent update of the SIP plugin manager I used some Python 3 code. As a result the plugin manager will not load if SIP is running under Python 2
Also, the latest version of Pi OS (formally Raspbian) has only Python 3 installed.

Some of the latest plugins are Python3-only and there will be a Python3-only version of SIP released fairly soon.
Therefor it would be best at this point to consider SIP to be Python3-only.

Dan

Good Morning to all you wonderful folks, much appreciated on the program. 

Back again with another question/request. We use the Run Once feature quite frequently to hand water Rooms that need extra care. The problem is we also use the programs for many frequent watering's throughout the day. When a program is running it gets shut off if we use the run now. We found the easiest workaround to be to add the time/room of whats running to the Run once we are looking to run. The problem is we have several people here who are pretty non tech savvy and it would be much easier if we could just Stop the run once from turning off other rooms. 

Is this an easy fix or would it require extensive work? Thank you kindly for any help you may be able to provide.