I haven’t seen this elsewhere so I thought I’d post it up and see what you thought and maybe pick up some neat ideas to progress it.
We just had our gardens re-turfed and I wanted to make sure we looked after it well considering the investment.
I’ve been looking at pop up sprinklers and am due to install a few in the next few weeks.
Wanted a way for Vera to control the watering and also to do it as cheaply as possible.
I started putting together some PLEG and the Weather Underground and Virtual Rain plugins to check for the obvious - freeze / past rainfall / forecast rainfall / patio doors open (means we are outside usually). That part was working nicely (using prowl notifications instead of actual water valves.
Then on to the valves themselves…racked my brains for ages looking for a wireless solution.
In the end I cobbled together these… Stella Z’s with a few extras!
Works brilliantly. However not weatherproof so the next stage is to bring them inside and cut into the cold water feed.