Turn any electrical irrigation valve into a smart-valve.. or run your pumps on a smart schedule based on your climate! This homebridge plugin exposes a multi-zone irrigation sprinkler dummy control system to Apple's HomeKit. Although a dummy, it brings smarts of an evapotranspiration based climate and plant adaptive irrigation controller with the use of OpenWeatherMap API. The plugin can optionally email you, and/or send you push notifications through Pushover or Pushcut, with the watering schedule it has calculated, or when a watering run is completed, along with the next 7-day weather forecast. Added option to expose system controls to Homekit allowing a user to enable/disable irrigation, rechecks, push and email notifications from within the Home App. Associated WaterLevel Characteristic shows the % of watering cycle remaining.
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soil moisture sensors and watering interrupting #64
Hello
I have 2 suggestions to improve smart-irrigation.
First: soil moisture sensors have become popular nowadays - could it be used to stop watering from a certain value regardless of the weather? 60 or 70% soil moisture is usually a sufficient level...
Second: I have a problem with the efficiency of the water source - a deep well. It would be useful to have a function that would allow watering to be interrupted for, say, an hour every hour so that the water source could be replenished.
I'm just starting to use the program and I'm impressed :)
Hello I have 2 suggestions to improve smart-irrigation. First: soil moisture sensors have become popular nowadays - could it be used to stop watering from a certain value regardless of the weather? 60 or 70% soil moisture is usually a sufficient level... Second: I have a problem with the efficiency of the water source - a deep well. It would be useful to have a function that would allow watering to be interrupted for, say, an hour every hour so that the water source could be replenished.
I'm just starting to use the program and I'm impressed :)