You don't have to know Linux at all and you can interact with a Web interface.” Right now, it allows people to deal with Linux-which is basically a command line system-in a way that does not act like a command line system. “It means that you can treat that as a black box. “In some ways the product is the image-the thing is that any device becomes a platform and people can load any images on them,” Knapp told me as we were wrapping up. For now, I was simply content to duplicate what I already had on my Irritrol setup. Heck, eventually I could even set up a rain sensor so that it didn’t turn itself on during a thunderstorm. AdvertisementĬyrus FarivarHere, I could easily set the duration, days, times, and more. Suddenly it was a pleasure to control my garden drip system. After all the work, we were left with this beautiful, intuitive interface. Next, I fired up the Web interface, and once that was functioning, I fired up the iPhone app version too.
Knapp took great care to gently screw in the existing sprinkler valve wires into the green receivers. Knapp had the good sense of marking the wires that were actually being used with black electrical tape.įrom this point, it was fairly straightforward. When we got to Step 5 (“Wiring Sprinkler Valves”), we took a picture of the existing wiring setup on the Irritrol and attempted to duplicate it on the new Pi-powered setup.
There was no smoke, so we moved on to the next step: screwing the expansion board into the Pi itself so that it fit snugly into the case. Here’s we followed the instructions to a T: we plugged it into the existing orange AC adapter power brick that OpenSprinkler came with. Within an hour, the Wi-Fi worked reliably on the Pi, and by our next session, we were ready to actually test the thing. That way, I didn’t have to remember the IP address each time I wanted to ssh to it.
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So it took a bit to remember how to get the Pi to play nice on my network I relearned things like setting up the Wi-Fi properly and installing avahi-daemon. I’m a Linux newbie and haven’t worked with the command-line Raspberry Pi interface in awhile. Such was life for our first 18 months, until I discovered OpenSprinkler.
If the plants didn’t die, then that meant everything was working properly. It has a crazy-looking dial interface, and after consulting with friends, I decided it was best to just leave it alone. I’m the guy who jumped at the chance to review the Estonian-made Click and Grow.īut our house came with a pre-installed drip system (if keeping score at home, it's an Irritrol RD-600). In other words, we wanted-at the very least-to not kill the plants we inherited from the previous owners. So while some people relax when they do weeding or other green thumb-related activities, we find it tedious and uninspiring. When my wife and I bought our house in 2012, our horticultural mission was Hippocratic (do no harm). I can control the entire thing locally from my iPhone and, to be frank, it’s pretty flippin’ cool.įor some background, I’m a very lazy gardener. November 2012: Get your washing machine to text when it's doneĪpr 2012: Getting started with the ArduinoĪfter a few hours of work alongside an electrical engineering buddy this week, my home garden drip system became powered by a Raspberry Pi. More Ars-approved DIY ProjectsApril 2013: AirPlaying music and video from iPad to Raspberry Pi
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