This plugin is not “user friendly”, it is complex to learn and will take a long time to achieve a satisfactory result
The principle of the plugin is as follows, the need for watering depends on :
We arrive at a watering percentage formula : ( * Sunshine + C2 * Temperature - C3 * Rain) + C4. This is the not user friendly side of the plugin because it cannot find the coefficients for you, so you have to go there little by little.
You can see an example of using the plugin.
The plugin has no specific configuration
This is where you define the name of the equipment, whether it is active or not, the visibility…
Here the commands to start watering, cut it and see the status.
Here you give the exterior light sensor (with the threshold above which it is considered that it is sunny), the temperature and rain sensor (which gives the rain of the last 24 hours).
Here you have :
Finally, comes the complicated part of the coefficients. Here two columns : one for the calculation in normal time, and one for the calculation if we take the last XX hours (so the case where it is watered in the morning). Clearly, I don’t have too much advice to give you on this, it’s really a refinement little by little.
If you activate the panel in the configuration of jeedom then you can have a page which gives you the current status of the equipment which manages the watering as well as a graph giving you the number of hours of sun, the quantity of rain and watering time.
We see the last watering duration, the sunshine time, the amount of rain, the last watering percentage practiced, the next estimated watering duration and the status. You can also prohibit watering for the current day, stop watering, start it in forced mode or start it according to the calculation at time T.