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Details for how Rain Sensor works
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If a rain sensor is connected to SIP running on a Raspberry Pi it will stop irrigation as long as the rain sensor's switch is active.  It is possible to set some stations to ignore the rain sensor or a rain delay on the Stations page.

Internally SIP has 2 variables that control the effect of the rain sensor. They are gv.sd["urs"] (use rain sensor) and gv.sd["rs"] (rain sensed) if both of those variables have a value of 1 irrigation will be stopped. You can find descriptions of the SIP variables in the gv_reference.txt file in the SIP directory.

Currently there is a new SIP extension (plugin) under development that integrates Node-RED with SIP. It will allow node-red to read and set almost all of SIP's variables. That may be something you could use.

Dan
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Details for how Rain Sensor works - by tutqiunnh - 2022 Oct 25, 09:25 PM
RE: Details for how Rain Sensor works - by dan - 2022 Oct 25, 09:57 PM
RE: Details for how Rain Sensor works - by dan - 2022 Oct 26, 03:29 PM
RE: Details for how Rain Sensor works - by dan - 2023 May 28, 01:45 PM
RE: Details for how Rain Sensor works - by dan - 2023 Aug 26, 02:58 PM

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