Sprinkler System - Melnor RainCloud

Bschaff · May 16, 2018, 11:19pm

Definitely willing to test and learn.

I ordered two and will open a ticket once they have arrived and installed

Thanks

mehdiheidari · May 24, 2018, 1:15am

@tchellomello Thanks for developing this project. I noticed that the watering time is only possible to be configured in configuration file which is basically set on startup. I tried to set the watering time via switch.turn_on service call but the service data is not accepted. Is it possible possible to add this parameter in the switch component?

tchellomello · May 24, 2018, 3:32pm

Hello @mehdiheidari,

Thanks for your kind words. Yes, definitely it’s possible. Would you mind filling a issue https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant/issues here and marking me so then I will try to add this functionality to it.

Thanks again.
mmello

mehdiheidari · May 24, 2018, 6:44pm

@tchellomello,
Thanks a lot!
I’ve registered the issue in your github.
Looking forward to receiving the new release.
Cheers

undertoe · July 28, 2018, 11:29pm

I know it does not support multiple valve units under one controller. When do you expect to support it? Based on the code it looks like instead of forcing the array to 0 index maybe you can add an option to specify which one to return. Or just merge the arrays if data exists.

Guyanthalas · August 5, 2018, 11:50pm

@tchellomello

Thanks for your work on this. LOVE it for my existing value. Got a second valve unit now and did not realize this component only worked for the one. Would love to assist any way I can to get it working with multiple valves.

I’m not a very good programmer, so your existing code is way above my understand… but if you can point me in the right direction I’m willing to contribute however works best!

vanstinator · April 7, 2019, 7:35pm

The integration broke last week due to a set of significant changes Melnor made to their API. I’ve fixed the module itself and the fix was accepted into HA last night. Should be out in 0.92.

Moving forward I’m hoping to add support for multiple valves and multiple controllers. If anyone has a spare they’d like to donate or something let me know. I’ve only got 1 controller and 1 valve at the moment.

ryry623 · April 25, 2019, 2:03am

Is this working in 0.92? I’m getting an invalid config error when I add this to my configuration.

vanstinator · April 25, 2019, 2:27am

It should work in .92. Can you post the exact error from the dev log as well as your configuration for the integration?

ryry623 · April 25, 2019, 3:46pm

I used this configuration:

raincloud:
  username: YOUR_USERNAME
  password: YOUR_PASSWORD

and here is the error that I’m getting:

vesomo · May 8, 2019, 2:30am

I am getting the same error message as ryry623

BlkKnight · June 6, 2019, 2:16pm

@vanstinator I’m getting the same failure in the raincloud component as well using 0.93.1. The log shows the same data as the “Rain Cloud Setup” error posted above.

Unable to connect to Rain Cloud service: 500 Server Error: Internal Server Error for url: https://wifiaquatimer.com/get_cu_and_fu_status?controller_serial=<redacted>&faucet_serial=<redacted>

My configuration is:

configuration.yaml:
  raincloud:
    username: !secret raincloud_id
    password: !secret raincloud_pw

binary_sensors.yaml:
  - platform: raincloud

sensors.yaml:
  - platform: raincloud

switches.yaml:
  - platform: raincloud

This worked for around a year before the Melnor website change back in March. Hasn’t worked since.

Thanks for your help!

chickenandporn · June 24, 2019, 11:35pm

The latest version you can see is version 0.0.7; version 0.1.0 fixed this for me. I think this has @vanstinator changes. I pulled this in by temporarily overlaying a pull of the component from trunk/master. If you’re not familiar, stick with me, and make a backup of your config before you begin:

backup your config directory (ICYMI)
mkdir /tmp/rain
cd /tmp/rain && curl -LO https://github.com/tchellomello/raincloudy/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
mkdir /your/config-dir/custom_components
mv raincloudy-master/raincloudy /your/config-dir/custom_components/
(Home-assistant web UI) check your config and restart

At step 4, it’s important that the created custom_components dir is in the same folder as your configuration.yaml file. This is in your configuration folder, if that’s not obvious – it’s a bit strange so I point that out redundantly.

tep 5 creates a component “rainclouds” in “custom_components” version 0.1.0 that eclipses the current 0.0.7.

njaehner · July 7, 2019, 7:54pm

I’m using the python venv setup/configuration on a Raspberry Pi. I tried doing the above and more specifically in step 5, ran the following command:

mv raincloudy-master/raincloudy /home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/custom_components/

However, after restarting the HomeAssistant service, I still get the same error: “Unable to connect to Rain Cloud service: 500 Server Error: Internal Server Error for url: https://wifiaquatimer.com/get_cu_and_fu_status?controller_serial=redacted&faucet_serial=redacted”

Thoughts?

njaehner · July 7, 2019, 8:01pm

One other thing - I tried this both with the master ZIP you linked (which I believe is still 0.0.7) and the 0.1.0 work in progress feature/multiple-units branch (https://github.com/tchellomello/raincloudy/archive/feature/multiple-units.zip).

Neither fixed the “Unable to connect to Rain Cloud service: 500 Server Error: Internal Server Error for url: https://wifiaquatimer.com/get_cu_and_fu_status?controller_serial=redacted&faucet_serial=redacted” error.

Any ideas?

JangoBritt · July 11, 2019, 2:05pm

I thought this was just me, because I have two valves.

I did notice that if I browse to the URL, and exclude the %0A2, I get a valid JSON response.

njaehner · July 11, 2019, 2:44pm

Yup, you’re exactly right. I have the same setup (one controller, two valves) and am getting the same issue with the %0A2 being appended to the faucet_serial= variable. Removing it generates a valid JSON response.

I shared my findings on the Raincloudy team’s Github here: https://github.com/tchellomello/raincloudy/issues/41#issuecomment-509028266

sgrayban · August 21, 2019, 5:32am

Has anyone setup automation’s based on weather in HA yet ? If so care to share ?

ryry623 · August 29, 2019, 3:41pm

I have the same issue with %0A2…anybody have any idea when this will be fixed on the actual integration?

undertoe · September 3, 2019, 3:17pm

Not related to the fix, but i ran a melnor raincloud for a little over a year. I had spotty service with it and it would sometimes open random zones that had nothing ever in them. I also had problems with two hose zones falling off of sync. HASS would only support one faucet. So what i did was bought a used rachio gen2 on ebay for 50$ and some rainbird valves. Plumbed them to my hose bib and just ran wires to the rachio. System works flawless and the gen2 rachio weather skip is pretty bad ass. Very happy with its. I had $200 invested in the Melnor system that offered nothing for automation based on weather and all said and done with the rachio, valves and pvc i maybe have $100 total for 4 zones with expansion to 8. Plays great with HA too.