Posted in Arduino, Sprinkler Projects on Dec 23rd, 2012
Hi everyone, Christmas is coming in a few days, and soon we will be entering the year 2013. I figured this is time that I post about recent progress on OpenSprinkler. Sorry that I haven’t blogged for a while. Various projects have been keeping me busy. I am excited to post and talk about the […]
Posted in Arduino, Sprinkler Projects on Nov 12th, 2012
Logging is a useful feature which allows you to find out how OpenSprinkler has worked say, in the past week. While you can check the scheduled water programs using the ‘Program Preview’ feature, it does not account for dynamic changes like rain delay, power loss etc. This is where logging comes in handy: you can […]
Posted in Arduino, Sprinkler Projects on Oct 18th, 2012
Recently I received a request to customize OpenSprinkler for a 12V DC external relay board. It turns out to be relatively easy to do. Since it may be useful for other folks, I am writing a post here to briefly describe the modifications. First of all, the relay board has built-in opto-couplers and flyback diodes. […]
Posted in Arduino, Sprinkler Projects on Sep 27th, 2012
I had the urge to send this out a week ago, but I was holding on to it because I had to hear some feedback, suggestions, and issue reports from the initial users. Now I am ready to spread the words: OpenSprinkler Firmware 1.8.1 is available for download in GitHub, go for it! If you […]
Posted in Arduino, Product News, Sprinkler Projects on Aug 28th, 2012
About two weeks ago we started shipping out OpenSprinkler v1.4, and I figured it is now time to write a short post to announce it. What are the new updates in v1.4? • DS1307 RTC The main update is that the external EEPROM (24LC128) is replaced by a DS1307 Real-Time Clock (RTC). I am aware […]
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