No problem. Let me know how you get on and I will help if I can
Hi,
First of all thanks for the work on this. it assume 
I have a outsoide moisture and temperature sensor thats in my grass and gives the following output:
Am i able to use the moisture in the sensor group? Currently i am only using the openweathermap data would be great if i can use the moisture sensor on each of my zones to calculate the need of water based on that value.
Thanks!
Dion
Anyone else have an issue after upgrading to the latest release?
@jeroenterheerdt - I will log an issue on github. Hope you can fix this easilyā¦
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This sensors are not considered in my opinion. I will also add moisture of/in soil and add this value in my automation. If moisture is above 24% the automation will not start.
I have a problem to reset my buckets: I created a automation as in you example, but the it doesnāt change the content of the bucket.
Executed: 24 March 2024 at 11:36:23
Result:params:
domain: smart_irrigation
service: reset_bucket
service_data: {}
target:
entity_id:
- sensor.smart_irrigation_terrasse_bucket
running_script: false
Only service: smart_irrigation.reset_all_buckets works as expected.
Version:
HA Core 2024.3.3
Smart Irrigation v2024.3.1
not sure where you got sensor.smart_irrigation_terrasse_bucket from, are you sure that the sensor for your zone?
Oops, sorry I did create an entity for the bucket and picked this one instead the entity from the app.
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Hello together,
Iām using Smart Irrigation for the last four weeks to calculate the amount of water my plants need. For the first three and a half weeks the calculation worked pretty well and the bucket adjusted its value as expected. But for the last two days the change rate of the bucket is way too low. On the attached screenshot you can see the bucket value for the last week. From Monday to Friday (01.-05.04) we had cloudy days with a temperature between 8-18Ā°C. On Saturday & Sunday (06.-07.04) the spring arrived and we had 15-28Ā°C without clouds. However the daily inclination of the bucket value dropped a lot and the calculated runtime is way too short. I didnāt do any changes in the Smart Irrigation settings except installing the newest version of the integration. Is there an explanation for this behavior?
Thanks in advance.
Lukas
Other than fixing a bug that caused the bucket to drop way too fast, no, no explanation. What makes you says itās too low? I think it should be correct now, for sure there are less bugs than before. Are you certain you have set up the zone correctly? If you feel like its not enough you can always set multipliers, but what the integration calculates is correct. Keep in mind that your bucket is also suffering from the opposite effect of older versions: we subtracted too much, but also added way too much. Iād recommend first resetting the bucket and then seeing if you still feel like the amount of water added through irrigation is to little.
Thanks for the fast response!
Thatās means, the bucket will generally drop slower in the future after fixing the bug?
Before the update I set a multiplier of 7 in order to achieve the right amount of water for my plants. Iāll have a look in the coming days, whether I need to increase it further.
As far as I can say the zone should be set up correctly. Iām updating the bucket every 15 mins. Is it the right order to update the weather data first and calculate the bucket afterwards or should it be the other way around? The weather data will be deleted once a day at 23:59.
Why are you updating the bucket every 15 minutes? You should be updating the weatherdata every hour or so, or faster if weather patterns change very fast. Then only calculate once. That calculation will update the bucket.
There are two reasons for that:
- I have a raised bed on my balcony into the south direction, so it needs water multiple times a day in case of big heat.
- I want to see the bucket value and the planned irrigation time in ārealtimeā so I have the chance to delay or adjust the irrigation.
That shouldnāt matter because the bucket should be adjusted for duration between the two times you calculated, but it wasnāt the original intention to use this integration this way.
Alright, I will try that.
Thanks!
Nevertheless the calculation seems to work as the days before today (it was again a pretty hot day).
Hi
Which sensor is this?
Isnāt the sensor calculated in seconds (that it will need to fill the bucket?)
Or is it the rain sensor?
Thx
It seems to be the bucket sensor (which you can add as a templated sensor)
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Exactly, Iāve added the bucket sensor as a template sensor.
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Aaaaah yes this is nice.
Thank you so much guys
What device class did you choose?
HA donāt let me use water and mm as unit
Great thank you