Sprinkler Mote - IOShield

[Felix]

Anywhere in void zoneON(byte which).

[sparky]

Felix,

I edited the sketch and everything is working great.  Thanks!

After uploading the sketch I went to the dashboard for the sprinklers and I noticed the screen changed.  Below Zone, there is another bar, Start/Started.  Is this normal and what is it actually saying started?  Can/should it be removed?  Please see attached

Thanks again

[Felix]

That is actually a "metric". It simply means the node sent a "START" message. This is kept for reference and I have implemented this in certain types of nodes so that I know when the node has last (re)started. Good to know for battery run nodes, to remember how long a node has been running for on the battery. Look in the IOShield sketch, you will see in the beginning there's this:

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radio.sendWithRetry(GATEWAYID, "START", 5);

[sparky]

What type of start message?  I didn't click for anything to start before seeing the new metric. (disregard, I see that it was sent when the sketch was uploaded)

Edit to add:  I spoke too soon with regards to the sketch edit.  When zones 1-8 are on, A0 is HIGH although A0 stays high until it see's z9-16 go on.  So if I don't run any other zones my RIDORUST pump would stay running which is not good.

Here is what I have;

  if (which >0 && which <9) {digitalWrite(RIDORUST, HIGH); } else {digitalWrite(RIDORUST, LOW); }

Thanks

[Felix]

Ok so turn RIDORUST LOW in this function as well:

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void zonesOFF()

[sparky]

Perfect!

Starting to make sense

Appreciate the help Felix