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Sat Feb 09, 2019 5:35 pm
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TwitchCaptain
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The sprinkler code in the plugin is still relatively new (beta), and since it's been raining every week since I wrote it I've made very little use of it. I would recommend you also add your sprinkler relays as devices, and set secondary schedules to make sure they do not run past their intervals. I've had a few incidents where a relay on the board somehow gets stuck on. I've averted this by sending the off command more than once; perhaps with a 1s delays between them. I recall once the garage door relay got stuck and made all the openers stop working. Another time I watered the front lawn for a good 5 hours.
This device is, unfortunately, as previously pointed out, very dumb. Making it actually smart requires a decent amount of engineering. I've done a lot of that in this plugin, but end users need to understand the risks and perform their due diligence as well. Sometimes remote commands fail, and there needs to be a backup system to alert the user of that fact, or retry the action later.
Hope this helps. Good luck! And please report any issues with the sprinkler code. If you notice strange behavior, I need to know about it so I can fix it up!