Watering garden script

[HJvD]

I have a watering system in my garden that gets its water from a pump. The pump is switched by a zwave switch.

First thing I would like to do is make a script that:

- waters my garden twice a week
- half an hour each time
- only at night at 2:00

Then secondly it would be nice to expand the script with rain parameters from Weather Lookup.

Any experience with these kind of scripts, any ideas?

[iganin]

There are several nice topics in this forum which are meet your needs or even more. Just perform search using "irrigation" word.

[ebretteville]

I did it myself. Just use the planning function.

[oliviers]

Hi,
Not so difficult ... I am using a Gardena system with 5 different irrigators that need to be activated one after each other (not enough pressure / waterflow to activate them all simultaneously, this is not the Versailles park!). To switch to ne next circuit, I just need to close/reopen the water valve. I did it with a simple scenario :

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[HJvD]

Thanks, don't know why, but I even didn't thought about using a timer. It's quite simple that way.

[Egregius]

It's simple yes, but is it sufficient? Shouldn't you look wether it rained in the last 2 days? Or that rain is expected in the next 24 hours?
I think you need to use a more advanced script for irrigation, like suggested before there are several good options in lua, dzVents or Pass2php.