Weather and Integrations

OpenSprinkler's Weather-based Adjustment, and Integrations

Using Weather Adjustments
Overview OpenSprinkler can leverage online weather data to automatically make daily adjustments to the station water time. The default weather data prov...
Sat, 20 Jul, 2024 at 5:14 PM
How to use MQTT
Note: this is an ongoing support article that's subject to changes as we implement additional MQTT features in the firmware. Introduction: From firm...
Wed, 24 Jul, 2024 at 3:53 AM
Setting up Email Notifications
From OpenSprinkler firmware 2.2.1, support for email notifications has been added. This provides a free alternative to the previous IFTTT notification metho...
Thu, 10 Oct, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Setting up IFTTT Notifications and Applet
NOTE: IFTTT now requires a paid subscription plan to use the Webhook trigger explained below. The advantage of IFTTT is that it supports all of SMS, em...
Wed, 24 Jul, 2024 at 3:56 AM
The Interactions between Rain Delay, Rain Sensor, and Weather Algorithm
Rain Delay is a manual control – it stops the controller from watering for a specified amount of time. Rain Sensor requires installing an external rain sens...
Thu, 31 May, 2018 at 11:08 PM
Getting a Weather Underground (WU) API Key
Background: Weather Underground (WU) was acquired by IBM in 2019, changing their API service and the process to apply for an API key. At the moment of this...
Sun, 21 Jul, 2024 at 6:59 AM
Using OpenSprinkler with Amazon Echo or Google Home Assistant
NOTE: this article is being actively edited to reflect the up-to-date information about IFTTT. You can use voice input such as Amazon Echo or Google Ho...
Tue, 13 Dec, 2022 at 10:22 PM