AusBonsai

Elmar, search for your location here: http://www.wunderground.com/

Wunderground tends to have more weather station feeds than the BOM, I think they take feeds from privately owned stations so you may get lucky and have a feed from nearby. I have one from a neighbouring suburb so I know it's pretty close to what the conditions are in my backyard.

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A better option if you don't have a nearby station reporting weather, get one and send the data to Wunderground, it will then be accessible by your OpenSprinkler unit and anyone else in the area who needs it

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Haha yer Jase, but there's just one thing missing - knowledge!

Actually make that 2 things - time as well.
I did look into a couple of external input devices and think I referenced them in another thread about this system... can't remember...


Cheers
Elmar

@Elmar, we have the capability to interface with sensors as there are a few analog and digital pins that maybe used for this however the software does not really support this at this time. As @JaseH suggested, you maybe obtain a weather station and link it to Weather Underground which will provide your OpenSprinkler with all the data/sensors it would need without having to manage the firmware and directly attaching sensors.

Thanks!

Elmar wrote:Haha yer Jase, but there's just one thing missing - knowledge!

Actually make that 2 things - time as well.
I did look into a couple of external input devices and think I referenced them in another thread about this system... can't remember...


Cheers
Elmar

Whats your postcode Elmar? Did you check if there was already a weather station near you on Weather Underground? If there is then you can tell OpenSprinkler to use this for your weather data.

Setting up a personal weather stations shouldn’t be that difficult or time consuming but they are a bit pricey.

JaseH wrote:

Elmar wrote:Haha yer Jase, but there's just one thing missing - knowledge!

Actually make that 2 things - time as well.
I did look into a couple of external input devices and think I referenced them in another thread about this system... can't remember...


Cheers
Elmar

Whats your postcode Elmar? Did you check if there was already a weather station near you on Weather Underground? If there is then you can tell OpenSprinkler to use this for your weather data.

Setting up a personal weather stations shouldn’t be that difficult or time consuming but they are a bit pricey.

My Post code is 6722, South Hedland and, as far as I can tell we only have the BoM site up here... not as advanced as you fellas in the East!

Elmar wrote:

JaseH wrote:

Elmar wrote:Haha yer Jase, but there's just one thing missing - knowledge!

Actually make that 2 things - time as well.
I did look into a couple of external input devices and think I referenced them in another thread about this system... can't remember...


Cheers
Elmar

Whats your postcode Elmar? Did you check if there was already a weather station near you on Weather Underground? If there is then you can tell OpenSprinkler to use this for your weather data.

Setting up a personal weather stations shouldn’t be that difficult or time consuming but they are a bit pricey.

My Post code is 6722, South Hedland and, as far as I can tell we only have the BoM site up here... not as advanced as you fellas in the East!

Here you go:

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/fin ... WESTERN199

http://www.wunderground.com/personal-we ... 99#history

Jase,
Sorry I didn't reply sooner, that's awesome, thank you! While I did go to the 'Wunderground' site it originally only showed me he BOM site. Have since changed to the SH site! Much better...

A friend of mine has recently bought a Raspberry Pi 2 (he's a teacher and uses it for his class as the kids are made about Mine craft!) and is playing around with Minecraft programming and I've been looking over his shoulder... Not looking as hard as I thought...
While I won't be a programmer of any note for a loooong time I am starting to see the benefits of this system. I hope those that are programmers using this would be open to sharing their knowledge to the lesser troglodytes on this forum... Wink wink, nudge nudge...


Cheers
Elmar

Elmar wrote: While I won't be a programmer of any note for a loooong time I am starting to see the benefits of this system. I hope those that are programmers using this would be open to sharing their knowledge to the lesser troglodytes on this forum... Wink wink, nudge nudge...

No worries Elmar - that's the beauty of open-source, everything is free and open for anyone to use, modify and adapt. I'm relatively new to Python programming myself so this project is a bit of a learning exercise. I have experience programming in other languages though.

I have to get back onto this now the weather is warming up, I got distracted for a while by couple of projects for my real job! Once I have something useable for general public I'll post something up.

JaseH wrote:...
I have to get back onto this now the weather is warming up, I got distracted for a while by couple of projects for my real job! Once I have something useable for general public I'll post something up.

Yer, I find work interferes with my hobbies, too! But I'd rather be working than not, especially now!

I look forward to your contribution... While I try to learn basic programming online (love that about Python).

Cheers
Elmar

This looks to be a similar product to Hydrawise https://hydrawise.com

Cheers,
Mojo