I’m not sure if this is something in your control or if it’s a Homey issue, but when I create a workflow to water a zone for X minutes, it doesn’t wait X minutes before the workflow continues. It only pauses for a second or 2 before it continues.
I added a “wait” card to match whatever X minutes is to make it work like I expected.
Big thanks for making this. Sorry if this is a stupid question, having troubles adding my controllers.
I have two controllers, one RZXe-8i and one RC2 4 zones. Everything seems normal, i name the zones and then trying to add them, but for both i get the same error message:
“Invalid setting type! Got string but expected number (number) for DefaultIrrigationTime”
Any idea what I´m doing wrong?
Ps. I would love to give you feedback on the compability on the new RC2 controller
Thanks for your message. A new version of the app just went live and should resolve your issues, you could retry installing it, or wait for it to update.
Although I see now when trying to add a flow, it seems to be a problem with the zones when having two controllers installed. I see the zones of the last installed controller even though I try to make a flow with the first installed controller…
I pushed a new test version, which should no longer display the wrong zone names. Not able to test it fully, as the Rainbird only allows for 1 connection, but you should be able to update your test version here:
Hi Wim,
Great work.
Our pump is connected this week again, so I can start testing my ESP-TM2 via your app. Will let you know how it goes!
I’m just wondering if you could pick up the rain detected signal from the ESP-TM2 also?
Keep up the good work!
Regard
Rudi
Thanks for your message. I have been trying it out the last couple of weeks and it seems 95%+ reliable. I had some problem connecting sometimes, but I had that with the Rainbird app as well, so I am not sure what is going on yet.
I looked into the rainsensor a bit, and as I do not have a sensor myself, I was wondering if you could shed some light on it. I DO have a way to read if the Rainsensor set point has been reached. Only I do not know what this would mean.
As far as I understand: The sensor is just an open/close switch, which wil be activated if the sensor is getting wet (rain) and depending on a slider (on the sensor itself), determinates the drying time of the sensor. In the manual is referred to the slider setting to correct, if your garden is of a sand (slider open) or Clay type of soil (slider closed). Also if a strong or mild wind is blowing over the sensor.
Rain bird has also a wireless sensor wich is capable of more (temp etc) but I just had a quick scan on the info.
If you do have to know if e.g. “open” means dry and “close” means “rain / has been raining”, I do have to uncouple it, but even then I’m not even sure if the software would intrepid it different.