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Sprinkling System Control Program for the Raspberry Pi
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Feature suggestion: a bit more towards safety #41

Closed DrTron closed 5 years ago

DrTron commented 9 years ago

Dear Richard,

I have a feature suggestion which improves the safety of the system - after all, it can cost the user money when irrigation goes wrong. I have had the case that I got a bad response from the Wunderground server (for whatever reason) and it seems to check only once directly before watering. That caused the system to assume 100% and it watered accordingly. Sadly it was pouring with rain that night.

Suggestion 1: implement several checks for Wunderground, maybe once a minute for five minutes before the schedule is set to run Suggestion 2: implement a user option of what percentage (0-100%) should be used if no valid response is obtained.

Besides that, it's really great, thanks a lot!

Cheers, Michael

tony-osp commented 9 years ago

Thanks Michael, this is good feedback.

In my own version of this system I added moisture sensor - it provides local, reliable data, allowing the system to adjust to your local conditions.

Bigben83 commented 8 years ago

Tony can you give some detail how you added a moisture sensor to sprinklers_pi?