General recommendations for lawn watering are to do it a little bit before the sun comes up to avoid the hot sun burning off the water but also not let give moss a wet, dark place to thrive. Programs can be set to start based on sunrise or sunset.I can completely manage the system from the comfort of my couch instead of standing in the garage.Now I can just reach for my phone and adjust it… if I even need to (more on that below.)Īside form the convenience factor, here are some other features that I love: To avoid wasting water, I had to turn off the house alarm, go out in the garage, turn the program off, come back in, turn the alarm back on, and go back to bed. Also, last summer I’d wake up to hear the rain and realize that my irrigation was scheduled to run in the morning. Why? Well yes, it’s a toy, but it also makes it very easy to walk around the yard testing zones or turning them on to blow out the line. With a little extra configuration I was able to do it from my phone. (It is SO convenient having the network closet share a wall with the garage!) I turned the unit on and very quickly was turning the sprinklers on and off from my computer. I also ran an Ethernet cord from the clock in the corner of my garage up into the network closet. I labeled all the wires from the existing clock and transferred them over to the Open Sprinkler unit.
The basic model is Arduino based but there are Raspberry Pi and Beagle Bone versions too.
Somebody else had the same idea and made such a nice package that he is able to sell it. They’re mostly intended for commercial use.Īfter a little searching, I found. Standard industry offerings are hundreds or thousands of dollars with monthly fees.
It’s a standard Hunter model (probably $75-100) and it worked great, but every time I looked at it, I thought about how simple the device really was and that I should be able to control it from my computer.
#Opensprinkler arduino free#
When Tim installed my irrigation system, he was kind enough to throw in a free irrigation clock that he had sitting around.
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