Logzy72
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Joined: Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:33 am

Pool pump & solar heating control

Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:59 am

Ive recently been fiddling with the RPi and decided i want to use this to control my swimming pool filete rpump and the solar heating pump.

The pool pump is an easy one with someone else already having done some php to control their pool pump.
http://upon2020.com/blog/2013/01/my-ras ... rasptimer/
This does scheduling and controls the relays connected to the I/O ports on the RPi.

What i would like to do is have this php also control the sloar pump which would mean reading the water temperature and comparing this to the roof temperature and the users set temperature.

I can use this for the reading of the temperature,
http://www.trainelectronics.com/Raspber ... index.html, which logs it to a txt file so my thoughts were to use the php to read this file and then control the solar pump.

Problem i have is that i am no programmer and really cant do the addition of reading temperatures and then turning the pump ondepending on the temperatures.

Does anyone know of an existing project around that would do this ?

tdub
Posts: 1
Joined: Sat Nov 14, 2015 3:08 am

Re: Pool pump & solar heating control

Sat Nov 14, 2015 3:12 am

Hi, just wondering if you ever had any luck with this, or anyone else has?

I have a series of tubes i have installed on the roof of my house to heat the pool, it is fed off the back of my existing pump controlled through a gate valve.

Im hoping to set it up so that i can have outside temp, water temp of the pipe and the gate valve operated by the raspberry PI set to open and close on specific temps, or partially open etc.

Thoughts?

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