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Now you can tab to Finish, and press enter, and you’ll be back in the command line. Arrow down to the Interfaces option, and press Enter. To enable it, use the command sudo raspi-config Raspbian comes with SSH Server installed, but disabled. Now cd into the new directory cd OpenSprinklerGen2 Next, clone the OpenSprinkler PI program from Github.

When Raspian is installed, boot it up and login (default username is pi, and default password is raspberry - you should change these immediately).Īfter logging in, you need to install Git, sudo apt-get install git

Feel free to get their standalone board if you prefer. Note: OpenSprinkler has a stand alone board, but I wanted to do something fun with my PI. You’ll need a 24V DC power supply as well (i ordered one from them).

I used the download straight from the Raspberry PI site, and the Etcher app to burn the image to the PI.

Get a Raspberry PI 2 Model a or B and a wirless dongle, or a Raspberry PI 3 with Wifi built in. Guts ( I was a bit freaked out about taking apart the controller and wires, but Bea and I got through it).A bit of patience with the documentation (I wish I had made better step by step photos, and maybe a video, but I didn’t).Wirless unless you want to run an ethernet cable to the controller location.Raspian (just the CLI version, not the UI based version - though it wouldn’t matter per se).The video showed a bit more of a simple setup than I received in the mail, but after a bit more cursing, double checking that I wasn’t missing any parts, and then letting (Beatriz) work on it, she had the whole thing put together. I ordered it based on the video from 2014. This guy made a controller board that sends the open and close signals to the zone valves in a sprinkler system, and then made it able to connect to a PI. I figured someone had to have done something with sprinklers and the PI by now, so i googled, and this was hit number 4 (after a few idiotic ads that had nothing to do with my search). If you just want to read about the OS Pi, start here.

So, a few hours of cursing and beating my hand ont he wall later, and I’ve at least got it to run 1 zone at a time in manual mode. The problem being that no one could simply walk up tot his thing and understand the intended functionality easily. I’m sure the inventor of this box had the best intenions, and was most likely a physicist or highly competent engineer. Now we come to the incredibly awful Toro control box. 4 and a half hours and 6 replaced heads later (lot’s of digging), the sprinklers are running well with no geysers or bubbling springs going in the yard. I had a couple of non-functional heads, so I headed to the big-box home store in town, and found some half-sized heads. Every sprinkler head in the yard sits well above ground level (this is just the canister mind you), and when they run, the extension riser pops up another 4 inches. I’m fairly certain it was the new guy on his first day, and he didn’t know what a sprinkler was. My Short back-story of frustrationīefore we get to the PI (You can skip down if you want), let me just tell you about whoever put in this system. Now that the weather has been nice and warm, and lacking any rainfall, it was time to get started. I purchased in Early December of 2017, and being the beginning of Winter (even in South Texas) I had no occasion to run the sprinkler system until recently. Many of you know I recently purchased a new home.

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