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Sprinkling System Control Program for the Raspberry Pi
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Duration solution #156

Closed Whytehorse closed 4 years ago

Whytehorse commented 4 years ago

If you allow the user to input hours:minutes for the duration of a schedule it would solve the problem of a 100 minute limit. the limit resides in the css in /sprinklers_pi-1.4.0/web/jquery/jquery.mobile-1.4.5.min.css

Just having a field for hr and mins would fix that. I get to wake up at midnight and turn on my sprinklers manually to get through the frost because I can't just schedule it to turn on all zones for 8hrs starting at midnight.

taHC81 commented 4 years ago

Hey, if you really want 8 hrs runtime from midnight, why you simply won't schedule it via cron & direct GPIO manipulation? :)

nhorvath commented 4 years ago

The internal data structure and scheduler uses an integer number of minutes. This would require a significant rewrite with changes that would break upgrades for existing users. The 100 min limit was increased to 254 minutes I believe. Anything beyond that is out of scope. Just use cron and gpio command line. Or fork this project and change it yourself.

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nhorvath commented 4 years ago

I just double checked and yes it was increased to 255 in 1.4.1. If you're intent on running for 8 hours you could just have 2 240 min (4 hour) runtimes back to back in the same schedule.