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OpenSprinkler Pi (OSPi) v1.0 is back in stock and available for shipping now. The kit includes one assembled and tested OSPi board, separation pillars, terminal blocks, 8-pin and 3-pin connection cables, and optional enclosure. You need to provide your own Raspberry Pi, and 24VAC sprinkler transformer. The board controls 8 zones, and can connect to […]

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Introduction Background Design Hardware Setup Software Setup Download F.A.Q. Hi, I am glad to announce the arrival of OpenSprinkler Pi (OSPi) 1.0 — a sprinkler or irrigation extension board for Raspberry Pi that provides direct access and control of sprinkler valves. This post serves as a quick introduction to the hardware and software setups. A […]

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Amid all the fun and exercise of snow shoveling following the heavy snowstorm Nemo, I was able to finish and check in a new firmware update for OpenSprinkler. This new firmware, numbered 1.8.3, is a relatively minor update. You don’t have to update if you don’t need the new features explained below. There are two […]

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Dan K. from California wrote an excellent blog post about how to set up a Raspberry Pi to work with OpenSprinkler. The link to the blog post can be found here: http://xperimentia.com/2012/12/14/setting-up-a-raspberry-pi-to-work-with-opensprinkler/ and you can download his scripts from the OpenSprinkler GitHub repository (link given in his post). The scripts basically consist of two parts: […]

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Recently I’ve received questions about how to check out a previous version of the OpenSprinkler repository. One reason to do so is to recover features that have been eliminated in the most recent firmware, such as the parallel / concurrent running mode. As in any version control tool, GitHub allows you to do this pretty […]

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