About This File
Irrigation Control standalone
INTRODUCTION
PREREQUISITES
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Fibaro Home Center 2 with firmware 4.660 or greater with devices added to the Sprinklers panel
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Sankotronic Lab Emoji VD standalone
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Sankotronic Lab Weather State & Forecast suite v2.8.1 or greater
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Sankotronic lab Netatmo Weather Station suite v3.3.1 or Netatmo Public Weather Station suite v1.0
FEATURES
- Watering delays and duration adjustment - Works with Weather State & Forecast suite and 7 most popular weather services on the planet to automatically adjust or delay watering depending on current and forecast temperatures and rain precipitation
- Irrigation pump control – If irrigation system has water supply pump then user can setup pump device ID and irrigation control will take care to start pump before watering cycle starts and stop pump when watering cycle is finished.
- Sprinklers panel - Works with HC2 Sprinklers panel and overrides panel limitations of 15 minutes watering duration and eliminates overlapping of watering zones by recalculating and setting of zones watering start times depending on adjusted watering duration times
- Watering cycles - User can setup any number of watering cycles with VD and then save them to sprinklers panel with one press of the button. Cycle watering start time and zones watering duration and weekdays all can be setup with this VD and then transferred to sprinkler panel.
- Auto and Off mode - User can set all watering zones to auto or off mode at once with press of a button
- Manual watering - User can activate any selected watering zone manually with preselected duration. Great option for maintenance and check of the sprinklers.
- Watering state at a glance - VD icon shows current overall status of the watering system by changing VD main icon and label accordingly.
- Watering history – VD is recording all watering cycles times and durations per zones and weather state and forecast measurements. Separate VD is provided for displaying history data.
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Multi-language support - VD has built in multi-language support with 27 languages included (see APPENDIX 1 for the list). VD can use HC selected language or user can select any other available language. E-mail and push messages are also translated
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VD Icons setup - Easy setup for VD icons. User can download HC2 Icon Preview VD to easily
find icon ID numbers
- Global variables - are automatically added, monitored, repaired and cleaned and does not require user intervention
INSTALLATION AND UPGRADE
Please check provided User Manual
PACKAGE CONTENT
- Irrigation Control VD v1.0
- Irrigation History VD v1.0
- Icon packs
- User manual EN v1.0
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its documentation for educational, research, personal use and non-profit purposes, without fee and without a signed licensing agreement is hereby granted, provided that the copyright notice, with "Terms and conditions" and "Disclaimer" appear in all copies, modifications and distributions. It is strictly forbidden to sell, rent, lease and/or lend this software for profit without prior consent from the Author.
DISCLAIMER
This software is provided by copyright owner "as is" and any express or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed. In no event shall the author and distributor be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits; or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of this software, even if advised of the possibility of such damage.
Fibar Group S.A. and their employees are not responsible for support of the ABC VD. Please contact the author Sankotronic, on the Fibaro Forum, for any questions or support required.
VERSION HISTORY
- 1.0 - First public release
KNOWN ISSUES
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Irrigation Control VD main loop stops running on error: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value) . This can happen ONLY under the following conditions:
- User uses only Weather State & Forecast VD for weather check without any of the Netatmo solutions
- Weather State VD main loop Netatmo settings are all set to false
- Weather State & Forecast VD current and forecast weather data is older than 3 hours
- In some cases history dates are wrongly sorted and also weather data is wrongly deleted.
- Solution for above issues is to download corrected Irrigation Control VD main loop code and paste it over current code: Irrigation Ctrl Main loop v1.0.2.lua.zip (updated 02. June 2021)
Look and feel:
Enjoy coding and your new Irrigation Control!
Sankotronic
Edited by Sankotronic
Irrigation Control VD main loop issues and solution
