Pi Smart Hose Integration

[ccigas]

Hey everyone, I am new here and wanted to see if I could create something I havent seen yet using the Pi.

I was hoping to use a Pi as a smart controller for a watering system. Lowes sells something like it but the hub isnt that good. Its called the Iris Hub with the Orbit Iris Hose Faucet Water Timer. I want something like that but something that I know will be better than a 2 star rating hub.

Not sure if this is at all possible to hook up a pi to any digital water hose timer or the timer I mentioned above to get what I want to do but if anyone knows how to do this or can point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it. I basically just want to have the pi turn the hose on/off on demand and with a schedule while being able to see the on/off state of the hose.

Hope someone can help! Thanks!

[SonOfAMotherlessGoat]

You'd probably end up spending less by using the Pi to control a relay hooked up to the solenoid of a cheap off-the-shelf anti-siphon sprinkler valve? What is your background, and do you mind getting involved with writing some of your own code? (You could use some of the Python libraries available for the code, may need some soldering skills for the relay hardware physical connections, and if you wanted to get really fancy, a little Flask to make a web app for it all?

[ccigas]

You'd probably end up spending less by using the Pi to control a relay hooked up to the solenoid of a cheap off-the-shelf anti-siphon sprinkler valve? What is your background, and do you mind getting involved with writing some of your own code? (You could use some of the Python libraries available for the code, may need some soldering skills for the relay hardware physical connections, and if you wanted to get really fancy, a little Flask to make a web app for it all?

Thats what I was thinking as well. I dont know any code to write my own web app though, which is what I really would like to have.

Another thing was that I dont know how to put all of it together to make it functional. I did find a page that somewhat answered this though. http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspber ... /?ALLSTEPS