Greetings,
GOAL
I want to use Rachio to control a PUMP that will run for a certain number of hours to refill a Tank each day. I wanted to do this programmatically without using the iPhone App to trigger the PUMP.
BACKGROUND
I volunteer for a small water district that mainly has one Tank and one Pump.
Each morning I receive the level of the Tank via Satellite to an email address. Based on the level of the Tank in the morning, I wanted to schedule a certain number of hours for the PUMP to run that day to make up for the consumption from the previous day.
PROCESS to VET
Below is the process I wanted to implement.
Perhaps the Tech guys at Rachio can vet the workflow.
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First create 10 Schedules where the PUMP will Run for 1 to 10 hours.
a. Schedule 1 - Pump Runs for 1 hour, say 10 AM to 11 AM
b. Schedule 2 - Pump runs for 2 hours, etc
c. Schedule 10 - Pump runs for 10 hours -
Get the Level of the Tank each morning via an email (say 9 AM)
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Compute the numbers of HOURS the pump should run based on it’s PUMP RATE (gallons per hour) and how many gallons to refill the TANK
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Switch to a Schedule where that many hours will RUN the PUMP
QUESTIONS
- Is it possible to get the ID of each schedule?
- Is this the simplest way to set the PUMP duration?
- If for some reason I have to stop the schedule, if I tell the system to continue with a certain Schedule but it’s start time has passed, will the PUMP go on still?
Thank you for your thoughts on this matter,
CCWD