Hello,
this is a very nice project, thanks for sharing.
My situation is the following:
Have some plants in the garden and also under the roof.
The idea is the following to water the plants in the different zones and make use of an online weather provider (using an Agrar weather provider called https://www.proplanta.de).
If it will rain, only the plants under the roof need to be watered, so I am searching to controll the system this way, or to remote enable the valves or watering plans from my home automation over an web command or api.
Is it possible to enable / disable watering plans / valves by an simple web cmd like hydrosys4/cmd/wateringplan1/on or so?
I could not use plant sensors as the control raspberry is to far away from the plants to monitor...
best wishes
Dominik
Working to include data from weather forecast providers, hopefully will be available soon in the next release in a couple on weeks. First version will support only one provider but the SW will have flexibility to support most of the providers changing configurations.
Hello Angelo,
thanks for your reply.
I would like to use the weather forecast to adjust the amount of needed water.
If it is very hot, the plants need some more water then normally.
If it will probably rain more then it must not irrigate then on a normal sunny day.
About the HTML command, is it possible to send the command with username:password:command?
Or is it possible to define a external device as whitelisted (by ip or mac address) which does not need to login?
I understand that security is important, but in my case the raspberry connected to my Wi-Fi directly, so the risk is not so big, and as I have monitored my water meter, I have a control instance if there will be water flow on times they are not scheduled.
Regards
Dominik
Hello,
There are HTML commands that can be used for the control of the valves activation, anyway they will not work unless you are logged in to the server. This is a critical security feature otherwise anybody could control your system just knowing your IP address.
The system right now has no API and I'm not a real expert of this type of interfaces.
I have a question about using the weather forecast website, how are you going to control the irrigation based on the weather forecast? is it based on rain probability?.
Got already some requests to connect my system to weather forecast websites (e.g. openweathermap) but still evaluating it.
Regards,
Angelo