Hi, I have been messing around with this integration for about a week and have a couple of questions to see if my use case is something I can figure out with the help of H-A.
My setup:
- Six hose timers and and the WiFi hub. 3 front yard and 3 back yard.
- H-A is running in a container on an old Mac mini.
- The sensors and switches are visible and can be operated from within H-A.
- All zone controllers are now operating on smart program/smart watering (as set from the B-Hyve app).
- bhyve_next_watering script is running with a automation script triggering for each zone on state change events similar to the example that was posted by Angelo last October:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/integration-with-orbit-b-hyve-irrigation-system/39688/215
Once I made each program/zone smart watering only, the next watering script comes up with ‘None’ as a next watering time. So not sure if I should be using a manual program triggers in the bhyve app in order for that to work.
So my two main questions:
1: Has anyone done something based on a manual action in H-A that would have each zone trigger one at a time, in succession, for a set period of time? I would like to be able to trigger an activity that would fire each zone one at a time for 20 min each.
2: Should I be using only Smart Programs/Zones in ther B-hyve settings? I am concerned that the next_watering calculations seem to be several days into the future based on the time stamps that are being produced.
Sorry about the rookie-level questions. I have done a fair amount of scanning of this thread to pick up what I can. Would really like to have a combination of smart watering with the ability to manually trigger a sequential watering of all zones at any time.
This is really cool stuff. Thanks for providing this integration and the community’s support.
Patrick