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Tuesday, May 17th 2011, 1:33pm
Virtual Rain Sensor
I chose to NOT go with a rain sensor. Instead I made a program which pulls the weather observations and runs the CIMIS calculations on transpiration and evaporation to figure out how much rain we need. It then deducts any rain we actually received and converts the solution to a runtime for the valve to be on through inexpensive X10 parts. Let me know if you are interested in trying this service free of charge (beta program) at reskin@virtualrainsensor.comDefinatly..........let me know which rainsensor you went with?[8D]
http://orpex.blogspot.com/2011/05/virtual-rain-sensor.html
Tuesday, May 17th 2011, 3:40pm
RE: Virtual Rain Sensor
"Virtual rain sensors" simply will not cut it. Also, I sincerely hope you are not using CIMIS data and trying to apply it to other regions.I chose to NOT go with a rain sensor. Instead I made a program which pulls the weather observations and runs the CIMIS calculations on transpiration and evaporation to figure out how much rain we need. It then deducts any rain we actually received and converts the solution to a runtime for the valve to be on through inexpensive X10 parts. Let me know if you are interested in trying this service free of charge (beta program) at reskin@virtualrainsensor.comDefinatly..........let me know which rainsensor you went with?[8D]
http://orpex.blogspot.com/2011/05/virtual-rain-sensor.html
Saturday, May 28th 2011, 10:29am
RE: RE: Virtual Rain Sensor
"Virtual rain sensors" simply will not cut it. Also, I sincerely hope you are not using CIMIS data and trying to apply it to other regions.
What I am defining as a "virtual rain sensor" is basically using the closest weather station (personal or otherwise) as my rain gauge. More accurately I am using a Penman-Monteith equation adjusted by region using Department of Agriculture data. I have also extended the algorithm to adjust for forecast precipitation.
You can now download the application and try it out. Early adopters will have lifetime gratis accounts by helping work out the bugs.
Saturday, May 28th 2011, 10:30am
RE: RE: RE: Virtual Rain Sensor
Sorry I forgot to post the link to the new website.You can now download the application and try it out. Early adopters will have lifetime gratis accounts by helping work out the bugs.
http://www.virtualrainsensor.com
Sunday, May 29th 2011, 8:46am
RE: RE: RE: Virtual Rain Sensor
What I am defining as a "virtual rain sensor" is basically using the closest weather station (personal or otherwise) as my rain gauge. More accurately I am using a Penman-Monteith equation adjusted by region using Department of Agriculture data. I have also extended the algorithm to adjust for forecast precipitation.
You can now download the application and try it out. Early adopters will have lifetime gratis accounts by helping work out the bugs.
Still not going to cut it. On site collection of rain data is the only sure fire solution.
Furthermore, your "local" weather station will typically not have the data required to run the Penman-Monteith equation, and even if it did, this data is also better collected on site.
Tuesday, June 21st 2011, 11:14am
Agreed
I agree.Hey,
Definatly purchase the Hunter Mini-Click or bettwe yyet for another 20 dollars you can buy a Hunter Wireless Rain Click (no wire hookup). thats a definate...but the Hunter Computer program is nothing worth while...all it is...is that the Pro-C appears on yuour computer and you can make program changes from your computer, instead of walking to the controller....dont worry about the Computer Programming,,,but definatly the rainsensor....i would buy the HUnter Wireless Rain Click from Sprinkler Warehouse.