Hi Angelo,
After a few years of functioning well, some issue has popped up with my watering plan. I have one pump and a bunch of valves which open one by one on a increasing delay of 20 seconds per valve.
The plan is set to start at 20h or 21h (I have been playing around a bit to try and debug this issue). During winter I don't pay too much attention to the system (because it's too cold to grow anything in the greenhouse), so I'm not really sure when this has started. Since this spring I noticed the pump is starting with a random delay of 10-13 minutes. Also the valves don't open at their set times but also have a similar, but random delay. The problem is now the pump will be working sometimes with no valves opened, pushing the limits of my cheap pipe system😂
Please, if you have some time, can you check this log? The plan itself seems fine: 20:00:00 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO WateringPlan Startpump evaluation: water1
20:00:00 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO WateringPlan Startpump evaluation: pump1
20:00:00 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO execute water pump check 2022-05-13 20:00:00
20:00:00 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO execute water pump check 2022-05-13 20:00:00
20:00:20 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO WateringPlan Startpump evaluation: water2
20:00:20 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO execute water pump check 2022-05-13 20:00:20
20:00:40 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO WateringPlan Startpump evaluation: water3
20:00:40 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO execute water pump check 2022-05-13 20:00:40
20:01:00 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO WateringPlan Startpump evaluation: water6
20:01:00 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO execute water pump check 2022-05-13 20:01:00
20:01:06 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO Read sensor data: TimeTrigger - 2022-05-13 20:01:06
20:01:06 hydrosys4.hardwaremod - INFO Sensor TimeTrigger reading: 0.00
20:01:11 hydrosys4.automationmod - INFO Starting Automation Evaluation, Sensor: TimeTrigger
20:01:11 hydrosys4.autowateringmod - INFO Starting Autowatering Evaluation
20:01:20 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO WateringPlan Startpump evaluation: water7
20:01:20 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO execute water pump check 2022-05-13 20:01:20
20:01:38 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO Read sensor data: tempsensor1 - 2022-05-13 20:01:38
20:01:39 hydrosys4.hardwaremod - INFO Sensor tempsensor1 reading: 21.20
20:01:40 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO WateringPlan Startpump evaluation: water5
20:01:40 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO WateringPlan Startpump evaluation: water4 20:01:40 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO execute water pump check 2022-05-13 20:01:40
20:01:40 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO execute water pump check 2022-05-13 20:01:40
So everything as planned, pump running for 100s, valves opening and closing per 20 seconds, last 2 valves open just to release occasional pressure from the pipes.
In this case, the pump actually started at 20:11:48. But as you can see, pretty random for all valves/pump 20:10:34 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO Pulse time for sec = 20
20:11:48 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO Pulse time for sec = 100
20:13:43 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO Pulse time for sec = 20
20:13:54 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO Pulse time for sec = 20
20:14:57 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO Pulse time for sec = 20
20:14:49 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO Pulse time for sec = 20
20:14:57 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO Pulse time for sec = 20
20:14:57 hydrosys4.selectedplanmod - INFO Pulse time for sec = 20
I have attached the full log. The system is not connected to the internet. Do you have any clue?
Hi Angelo, Just a quick heads-up: changing the sensor intervals didn't really fix the issue, the delay has not improved. However, with the PowerPin set-up I have a workaround that solves my issue, so thanks! Will keep you updated if I ever find the cause of the delay.