IFTTT And Personal Weather Station

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GHammer

May 21, 2018 14:53

I have a new personal weather station and would like to use it in two way.

1 If it is raining, stop watering.
2 If the wind speed is over 15 MPH, stop watering.

So, I went to IFTTT created an account and looked the the WeatherUnderground options. Sure enough there are applets that do what I want. However, they are based on my location, not a specific weather station.

This is an Ambient Weather station and they do have a service channel on IFTTT.

Any ideas? Perhaps, I should just use the personal station in my Mini-8 settings, but that wouldn't stop on wind or as soon as the station detects it is raining.

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  RainMachine Support May 21, 2018 16:35 (Edited May 21, 2018 16:36)

  Hi, Gary
  As you said, the Ambient Weather station has an IFTTT channel: https://ifttt.com/ambient_weather
  All you have to do is to create an applet and use the Ambient Weather trigger as "THIS" action:

  Outdoor Temperature rises above
  Outdoor Temperature falls below
  Wind Speed rises above
  UV rises above
  Daily Rain rises above
  Parameter rises above
  Parameter falls below

   

  the next step is to use RainMachine IFTTT actions as "THEN" action https://ifttt.com/rain_machine

  Now you linked your weather station and Rainmachine without the need of WUnderground.
  
  Hope this helps.
  Thank you
  RainMachine Support

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  GHammer May 21, 2018 16:36

  Thank you, I'll give it a try this weekend.

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  RainMachine Support May 21, 2018 16:46

  Ok, Gary
  Keep us posted!
  
  Thank you
  RainMachine Support

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  GHammer May 31, 2018 13:42

  I have the rules in place, very easy to do.

  I don't want to rely on WUnderground as they are unreliable and seem to be changing course.
  
  Once either condition is met, I'll let you know how it fared.
  
  I paused rather than cancelled, mainly because I don't know the consequences/actions of either.
  If I pause, will my Mini-8 recalculate based upon the rain and decide if/how much to water after the day pause?

   

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  RainMachine Support June 05, 2018 10:41

  Hi, Gray
  Yes, if you set the Mini-8 in Snooze mode for 1 day the scheduled program watering times will be recalculated after the Snooze.
  
  Thanks,
  RainMachine Support

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  GHammer June 05, 2018 12:25

  It rained yesterday and the Mini-8 was paused for 24 hours.
  Works very nicely, and I will disable the old rain sensor in favor of this method.

  Thanks for letting me know it does recalculate.

  Gary

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  Old Spaghetti June 25, 2018 03:18

  Is there a way to change the Snooze time to less than a day or amount of hours based on the rain amount?   Also, is the amount of rain added to the ET calculations?

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