Get it straight, Which sprinkler controller integrate with Vera without hassle?

[PBSAMSON]

Get it straight, Which sprinkler controller integrate with Vera without hassle?

I searched and searched and all I see is the trouble and inconsistancies people have working that out.
Am I missing something?

For my landscape lightning I use the Kichler 15DC300 Design Pro LED Controller 300W and it work like a charm, is there a sprinkler controller that would provide the same level of satisfaction?

Pierre

[rafale77]

Welcome to the party!

I personally am not using any dedicated sprinkler controllers because they tend to be wifi/cloud based and have chosen not to deal with could based approaches.

I am controlling my sprinkler system with simple relays. I have 6 channels controlled by 3 Monoprice/Vision dual relays. The scheduling/automation is all done within vera/openluup.

Irrigation control with relay switches

After looking at all the options, the simplest seems to be using multi-relay switches. I watched a video where a rancher used outdoor plug-in z-wave devices to control sprinklers throughout his ranch. He found that the switch would work with 24vAC. Running with this idea I purchased three Vision ZL7432US dual relay units. I took the old 24vAC transformer from an existing controller and connected it to the power leads on the relay and paired it with Vera and it works perfectly. I can send the 24…

[richie.digital]

i wish someone would re-write the opensprinkler plugin …

I use open sprinkler but i have to mess with it for about 2 years since the original programmer abandoned it, but i finally got it to work.

Rachio is a good one

[PBSAMSON]

We’ll, thank you for the info guys, that’s what I suspected. I’ll get an off the shelf controller for now (new landscape needs immediate attention) and start exploring the Vision thing.