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Re: New Rain 8II (UPB Q)
How is the UPB version doing? What interface are you using to send/rec to the Rain8?
It's a long way to my current Rain 8 so signals are often lost but I like the company products.
Thanks!
-D
On May 26, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Mark Johannessen wrote:
>> I just finished installing my two Rain 8II. They work great so the
>> next thing I need to do is set up a watering scheduled.
>> 1. Do I do this as a global? or set up a scheduled Event.
>> 2. I also know I want to make sure the water shuts off so in the on
>> of each one I should have a couple of "turnoff in 10*minute" correct?
>
> I'm working on a upb version of the Rain8 (thanks James). Maybe a
> bit complicated, but this may provide some ideas.
>
> I have a mysql database with a settings object that contains the
> settings for each zone for each day of the week, specifically with
> object fields description, zone, enabled, day of week, start time, and
> duration. Setting the settings of each zone is through an html form
> using django/python, but this could probably done using X2Web?
>
> I then have a scheduled event (in Xtension) that runs a script at
> 12:05 am that gets the settings from mysql for that day, and sets
> Xtension scheduled events for the day for each zone that's enabled.
> For each enabled zone, I create an on event and an off event. Before
> I set these, I clear the existing events for all zones.
>
> I also log the on and off events in another mysql object (zone, time
> of event and the event (on or off) for later graphing.
>
> Also using the Rain8 pc config app you can set maximum run times to
> prevent run
> aways.
>
> Mark J
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It's a long way to my current Rain 8 so signals are often lost but I like the company products.
Thanks!
-D
On May 26, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Mark Johannessen wrote:
>> I just finished installing my two Rain 8II. They work great so the
>> next thing I need to do is set up a watering scheduled.
>> 1. Do I do this as a global? or set up a scheduled Event.
>> 2. I also know I want to make sure the water shuts off so in the on
>> of each one I should have a couple of "turnoff in 10*minute" correct?
>
> I'm working on a upb version of the Rain8 (thanks James). Maybe a
> bit complicated, but this may provide some ideas.
>
> I have a mysql database with a settings object that contains the
> settings for each zone for each day of the week, specifically with
> object fields description, zone, enabled, day of week, start time, and
> duration. Setting the settings of each zone is through an html form
> using django/python, but this could probably done using X2Web?
>
> I then have a scheduled event (in Xtension) that runs a script at
> 12:05 am that gets the settings from mysql for that day, and sets
> Xtension scheduled events for the day for each zone that's enabled.
> For each enabled zone, I create an on event and an off event. Before
> I set these, I clear the existing events for all zones.
>
> I also log the on and off events in another mysql object (zone, time
> of event and the event (on or off) for later graphing.
>
> Also using the Rain8 pc config app you can set maximum run times to
> prevent run
> aways.
>
> Mark J
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