I'm a new EZFlora user. Downloaded this plugin for HS3. Was happy to find the ability to set the program times from inside the plugin and not need separate software. I'm using all eight zones. Rain Sensor, Meter Count and Water Pump are all set to False. Polling is set to the default 0. I had no problems with this plugin talking to Mark's Insteon plugin.
Since this was my first time taking it for a spin, I set some events to alert me as the state of the devices changed. Specifically I created speech events for ON and OFF states for the four programs and for the Rain Sensor as I've read here others have found it on mysteriously and that apparently can cause commands to be inhibited.
I setup program one so all eight zones run 25 minutes (my normal plan)
I setup program two so all eight zones run 1 minute. I did this so I can test some water hammer/air issues I'm having.
When testing with program 2, I found it interesting that I would get speech events about the state of all four programs as well as the state of the rain sensor which claimed to go ON and later OFF. These events came in when I first turned program 2 on and again with each valve change. The log is attached for review (up to valve 4, then I stopped the program). I assume these are messages being generated by the EZFlora device itself and true, I can just ignore all the program states as it's really just repetitive info.
Why is the rain sensor claiming to go ON and OFF ?
Also, is there value in enabling polling? Are there times when the device state in HS3 might not match the hardware itself and polling corrects that?
Since this was my first time taking it for a spin, I set some events to alert me as the state of the devices changed. Specifically I created speech events for ON and OFF states for the four programs and for the Rain Sensor as I've read here others have found it on mysteriously and that apparently can cause commands to be inhibited.
I setup program one so all eight zones run 25 minutes (my normal plan)
I setup program two so all eight zones run 1 minute. I did this so I can test some water hammer/air issues I'm having.
When testing with program 2, I found it interesting that I would get speech events about the state of all four programs as well as the state of the rain sensor which claimed to go ON and later OFF. These events came in when I first turned program 2 on and again with each valve change. The log is attached for review (up to valve 4, then I stopped the program). I assume these are messages being generated by the EZFlora device itself and true, I can just ignore all the program states as it's really just repetitive info.
Why is the rain sensor claiming to go ON and OFF ?
Also, is there value in enabling polling? Are there times when the device state in HS3 might not match the hardware itself and polling corrects that?
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