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Sprinkling System Control Program for the Raspberry Pi
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Schedules run for 1minute only #55

Closed ChassaB closed 8 years ago

ChassaB commented 8 years ago

Am running on raspberry_pi 2 with latest raspian connected to an old water controller. All works fine in manual, but no matter what I set the schedule time to for each zone the schedule only runs for 1 minute. Weather Ubderground feed is working OK. The schedules do start at the correct time.

Any thoughts appreciated

nhorvath commented 8 years ago

What does your weather adjustment come up as? It could be calculating that you don't need to water much because of low temperatures, rain or high humidity.

ChassaB commented 8 years ago

So far it has been between 75 and 106. I've played with the seasonal adjustment but makes little difference. That is currently at 6 for no particular reason other than to give it a number. Today, after setting the run time to 50 each of my 4 stations ran for 3 minutes.

nhorvath commented 8 years ago

If you go to Advanced -> Wunderground Diagnostics what does "Overall Scale" say at the end? Based on the temperatures you said it should probably be close to 100% assuming it hasn't rained.

The Seasonal Adjust is very important and sound like your issue. If you have it set at 6% it is only going to run your zones at 6% of the time of whatever wunderground calculations came up with. If you want no seasonal adjust you should set it to 100%. So if you had a zone set to 50 mins then Wunderground applied no adjustments because it's hot out then the 6% Seasonal Adjust was applied 50*.06 = 3 min actual run time.

On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 6:19 PM, ChassaB notifications@github.com wrote:

So far it has been between 75 and 106. I've played with the seasonal adjustment but makes little difference. That is currently at 6 for no particular reason other than to give it a number. Today, after setting the run time to 50 each of my 4 stations ran for 3 minutes.

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ChassaB commented 8 years ago

It says 93%. I'll set seasonal adjust to 100% and see what happens. Certainly sounds like that is the issue. I had assumed the adjustment was the other way around.

ChassaB commented 8 years ago

I am a thousand times an idiot. Thanks for that it was the seasonal adjustment.

nhorvath commented 8 years ago

no problem.