This idea might strike some as being all wet or just a sprinkling of inspiration, but it’s really a gusher of a concept! Sorry, I’m still recovering from too much Thanksgiving stuffing … both the noun and the verb :lol:

Great stuff.

I love this. Any data on power consumption here?

Looks like this could work with a heating system as well.

I was very intrigued with the link to the Google calendar. My un-pi solution is switching 24VAC with relays and using a step-up transformer to drive valves taken from old washing machines and the like.

Marginally OT, but the circuit board for a combie boiler wear out after a few years. There’s a company that sells refurbed boards for a fraction of the price of a new one. What happens is that the extra-low voltage electronics lasts for ever. The 240V relays on the edges get trashed. So their repair is mostly replacing the relays (dead cheap).

Because of the logic states required to run a combie sick relays cause all sorts of problems cos a relay can contact, the board’s happy to switch the next device, and then earlier relay changes its mind so forcing the controller to backtrack. This causes the poor relays to thrash, which in turn makes them sicker. So new board.

Presumably the best solution for heating control, like this lawn waterer, is to have a low power controller, such as an ATmega, and some custom electronics+ relays. That can hold a schedule, RTC and some relays. Also talk to a thermostat; either a traditional 240V one or cleverer. Then program it either via a RPi or laptop/tablet.

Impressive stuff. Especially the interface with the website configuration. There’s seems to be no end to the innovation that is happening right now.

I’d had the idea to do something like this years ago, so I was pleased to see that someone else had the same idea and had put together hardware for it. I bought one of the early versions of this and used it to water my outdoor plants all summer long. The hardware and mechanical design is really nicely done (integrated into a durable case that requires nothing more than a standard sprinkler power supply that you can buy at any gardening store or home depot).

The demo software that comes with it is functional, but somewhat limited. I wish I had more time to work on a software stack myself. I think you could do some really cool stuff. I’d eventually like to use it to try to artificially optimize growing conditions to grow things that are otherwise very difficult to grow in the area where I live.

It should be named the… ODENsprinkler… :)

Happy wife – easier life for me now!
Thank’ A LOT !
But my friends hate me because their wives want to have the same :-)
I mean the sprinkling system for sure.

I have it working in my yard it it is awesome. I also built in a soil sensor so that it can work of of that as well. Its a great product and works very well. It was easy to set up, worse part was digging the lines but I am using a RainBird Solenoid and sprinklers.