Running multiple Programs
I had set up two programs one for the front lawn and one for the back lawn. The front lawn starts at 1900 and is on a 2 cycle 3hr soak time. The back lawn starts at 2130 with same cycle and soak. The back lawn didn’t turn on at the set time. Why is this? The running times weren’t going to interfere with each other.
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This needs to be fixed please. If you let an idle program lock out the whole system from doing anything else, it makes the "cycle and soak" feature useless for anything but the most trivial use case.
You need to have a queue of "cycles that need to run", where any program can put a cycle into the queue, and anything can be popped from the queue whenever the triacs are available to start another zone.
The reason I have this requirement is that I want a program for potted plants in a greenhouse that I would like to water 3 times per day regardless of the weather. Then I also have outdoor zones which I would like to water twice a day, with less watering on cool days. It is very dry here and my soil is sandy, so I need to spread out my watering throughout the day not so much to prevent runoff, but to keep the top 1-2" of soil cool and moist. I have found this works much better in my case than deep soaking because this sand drains too fast for that.
Alternatively, I would be happy if I could enter multiple start times per day for a given program. Is that not possible?
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