01-28-2015, 12:09 PM
The gotcha with things like the individual zones is that all too often those will not be an actual irrigation controller, but just some relays. So any higher level manager won't ever be able to assume that, at the individual zone on/off type level that it's dealing with a formal irrigation controller.
Schedules make more sense if we are talking about something that really is specific to the irrigation controller, but as you say, I'm not too sure if we can find any commonality. And, I guess, from the perspective of trying to provide some sort of standardized interface for a higher level controller, the built in schedules may be of no interest since it would be providing the schedule itself (since it has to work with smart and non-smart irrigation systems.)
Schedules make more sense if we are talking about something that really is specific to the irrigation controller, but as you say, I'm not too sure if we can find any commonality. And, I guess, from the perspective of trying to provide some sort of standardized interface for a higher level controller, the built in schedules may be of no interest since it would be providing the schedule itself (since it has to work with smart and non-smart irrigation systems.)
Dean Roddey
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