How to delay Sprinkler based on Netatmo

[PawRew 0]

Hi All,

 

I have seen many suggestions on that, but none of them works for complete programming ignorant.

 

Can anybody help with step by step instruction on how to stop sprinklers depending on either weather forecast, or better based on Netatmo rain gauge reading.

 

Any help appreciated, I’m so annoyed that my old Gardena was doing better job than Fibaro.

[Igy 23]

Hi, Im using VD with button that will set delay to defined time. Its being triggered by weather or manually. In your case, I believe it can be triggered by Netatmo (I dont have it to give it a try).

 

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Edited July 22, 2018 by Igy

[PawRew 0]

Hi Igy, thanks but I use HCL and I could not use LUA. Is there a way to translate such code into string used by VD in HCL?

Edited July 22, 2018 by PawRew

[Igy 23]

I think that there is no way

[Stiven 53]

@Igy Hey, I am also a noob if we are talking about lua code, but how can I set the virtual device to be triggered by netatmo rain gauge? Thank you very much!

Edit: Also I want to apply it to a lua scene so I don't have to press buttons. The idea is to get the values from rain gauge and then from those values change the delay to the respective number of hours. For example, if it rains more than 100 ml the delay is set to 24 hours and if it rains more than 500ml the delay is set to 48 hours.

Edited September 1, 2018 by Stiven

[rvsteenbergen 0]

On 7/22/2018 at 9:13 AM, Igy said:

Hi, Im using VD with button that will set delay to defined time. Its being triggered by weather or manually. In your case, I believe it can be triggered by Netatmo (I dont have it to give it a try).

 

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Altough a few years old, this is still very nice code. Thanks a lot!

I am not a programmer but was able to use the code for creating a new VD where I can manually delay rain for garden sprinklers.

 

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I faced one problem: when I chose a delay, it kept setting that delay infinite. So I created 2 global variables, RainDelaySet and RainDelayHour. After each button I set raindelayset to 1 and RainDelayHour to the chosen hours.

Now, when you press a button, it knows that you want to set to that value and when you do nothing, it counts back to no delay.

 

I just installed Sankotronic Weather State and Forecast (man what an effort did he put in, respect! Well documented, good manual, outrageous). It works almost but now looking to integrate both, so I don't have to bother to set de delays myself.

 

Example 24hr button:

fibaro:setGlobal("RainDelaySet", "1")
fibaro:setGlobal("RainDelayHour","24")

 

Code for the +1 button:

fibaro:setGlobal("RainDelaySet", "1")
local RainDelayPlus = (tonumber(fibaro:getGlobalValue("RainDelayHour")) + 1)
fibaro:setGlobal("RainDelayHour",RainDelayPlus)

 

Code for the -1 button:

fibaro:setGlobal("RainDelaySet", "1")
local RainDelayMin = (tonumber(fibaro:getGlobalValue("RainDelayHour")) - 1)
fibaro:setGlobal("RainDelayHour",RainDelayMin)
 

Main loop code:

 

HC2 = Net.FHttp("127.0.0.1", 11111); 
-- Get RainDelay from GlobalVar and Sprinklers Panel
if tonumber(fibaro:getGlobalValue("RainDelaySet")) == 1
  then 
    fibaro:debug("RainDelay ingesteld vanuit variabele en RainDelaySet 1 naar 0")
    RainDelayGlobalVar = tonumber(fibaro:getGlobalValue("RainDelayHour"))
      fibaro:setGlobal("RainDelaySet", "0")
    RainDelay = tonumber(fibaro:getGlobalValue("RainDelayHour"))
    response, status, errorCode = HC2:PUT("/api/panels/drenchers", '{ "rainDelay": '..RainDelay..'}')
      if tonumber(errorCode) == 0 then 
         fibaro:debug("Connection successful.");
      else 
       fibaro:debug("Connection failed!!!"); 
   end  

  else
    fibaro:debug("RainDelaySet 0 blijft 0")
  end

 

-- get data table from the Sprinklers Panel
response, status, errorCode = HC2:GET("/api/panels/drenchers")
jsonTable = json.decode(response)
delay=jsonTable.rainDelay/3600
   function round(delay, idp)
     local mult = 10^2 -- number of decimal places
     return math.floor(delay * mult + 0.5) / mult
   end
fibaro:call(632, "setProperty", "ui.Delay.value", round(delay).." uren")  --display of actual delay on VD label
fibaro:call(632, "setProperty", "ui.RainDelayVar.value", round(fibaro:getGlobalValue("RainDelayHour")))
 

Don't know if it is well-coded (don't think so) but it works like a charm for me. As told, working on the automation from Sankotronics weatherforecasts.

Maybe someone can use it.

Thanks again @Igy