Closed Rexel99 closed 8 years ago
Rexel99
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9 years ago ^ Adding to the above. Even if I set/use the PWS for US based stations I get a reasonable scale %, using many of the local stations in Melbourne I seem to only get Overal Scale of 0%
nhorvath
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9 years ago Looking at the weather from this station http://api.wunderground.com/api/[apikey]/conditions/q/Australia/Melbourne.json it is quite cool in Melbourne compared with the US right now and with decent humidity. This would cause the scale to be 0 or a very low percentage. The whole point of using wunderground to scale your sprinklers is so it waters more when it is hot and dry out vs when it is cool.
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 4:21 AM, Rexel99 notifications@github.com wrote:
^ Adding to the above. Even if I set/use the PWS for US based stations I get a reasonable scale %, using many of the local stations in Melbourne I seem to only get Overal Scale of 0%
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Rexel99
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9 years ago Thanks. Yes, looking around I eventually found a place in Australia that registered a scale above 0% and it seems to work. Just appeared to be scaling the run-time a lot more than I expected since it has still been raining very little (if at all) and although a bit humid and entering winter here, having the watering cycle scaled back to nothing seemed a little drastic. Thanks for the reply and will see how we go over the next few months and seasons. Great to have a good system though, thanks for your help and work with the project.
nhorvath
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9 years ago If you think it is watering too little you could either make your runtime longer or play with the seasonal adjust percentage. On Jun 21, 2015 8:43 PM, "Rexel99" notifications@github.com wrote:
Thanks. Yes, looking around I eventually found a place in Australia that registered a scale above 0% and it seems to work. Just appeared to be scaling the run-time a lot more than I expected since it has still been raining very little (if at all) and although a bit humid and entering winter here, having the watering cycle scaled back to nothing seemed a little drastic. Thanks for the reply and will see how we go over the next few months and seasons. Great to have a good system though, thanks for your help and work with the project.
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johngova
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8 years ago i want to use weather station in my locality in india,near to famous lord blaji temple.can send me the code and process of doing.i had raspberry pi along with sensehat.iam waiting for ur response...
Rexel99
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8 years ago This has been working well for me, thank for the great feedback (sorry for the delay) but all is very well with my system. In answer to Johngova, the closest weather station to you appears to be Station ID: 43275 (search on https://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/), use this with the PWS setting for your Sprinkler_Pi to get the right weather and adjust the timer cycle.
Sorry if this is a wunderground or external issue... but, I have sprinkler_pi running well but I do have it on a recent (latest) version of Raspian, I am finding that using 'weather adjust' turned on is causing the schedules to not activate fully or at all. The wcheck is always returning Overall Scale 0% (where I see in the setup pics this should be around 100%) but otherwise this seems to be working with my local PWS sites (say IVICTORI577 here in Melbourne). The schedules are often activated for very short and very random time lengths or more often just not being activated or logged at all. Not sure what I should be looking for in diags/text files to understand more.