TIAO Smart Sprinkler Pi Controller User Manual
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Contents
TIAO Smart Sprinkler Pi
For system connection diagram, please refer to TIAO Smart Sprinkler Pi System Connection Diagram. For hardware layout, please refer to TIAO Smart Sprinkler Pi Hardware Layout.
The TIAO Smart Sprinkler Pi (TSSPi) is a piece of hardware controls your irrigation systems. It replaces your traditional sprinkler controller. TSSPi has many benefits over the traditional sprinkler controller:
TSSPi Controller Software Features
- Easy setup - no monitor nor keyboard required for raspberry pi, only a network cable or USB wifi adapter
- Web interface - program the watering schedule using your PC or mobile phone
- Supports complicate watering schedules
- Unlimited watering schedules
- Allow seasonal adjustments
- Weather API access - automatically adjust watering amount/time by checking online weather forecast (rain/wind etc)
- Control your sprinkler stations from anywhere in the world
- Software supports unlimited stations
- Controls 1 to 16 stations(or 1 master station + 15 stations)
- Supports rain sensor
- Open source software - which means you can add your own function to the controller!
- System ON/OFF hardware switch
- Status LEDs (power, Pi power, system on, system running)
- Tap start/stop - simply tap on the screen to start or stop the stations
- Recommended browser - Google Chrome
Installation
The TSSPi controller software is pre-installed in our Raspberry Pi SD image, you can download it from here.
The image compressed in 7Z format, you can uncompress it by using 7Zip or peaZip.
After you have uncompressed it, follow the instructions from http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/ to load the images on the SD card.
Hardware connection
Your raspberry Pi is getting power from TSSPi, so no separate power needed for Pi. The required connection to your Pi is a network cable or a supported USB wifi adapter. For sprinkler connections, please follow this page: TIAO Smart Sprinkler Pi System Connection Diagram.
Make sure all connections are correct, then connect the power wires.
System configuration
The initial configuration includes network configuration, timezone setup and sprinkler station setup.
Network configuration
We have configured the Raspberry Pi image file to use static IP (192.168.1.70) for your Raspberry Pi.
If you plan to use wired connection, just plug a network cable from your home router to Pi, then you are done. You can continue it on the timezone setup section.
If you plan to use an USB wifi adapter, you have two ways to configure the wireless settings for your Pi.
USB wifi adapter supports Access Point (AP) mode
The AP mode means you can use your USB wifi adapter as a router, so you can connect your phone or laptop wirelessly to your Raspberry Pi directly, so that you can setup your Raspberry Pi's wifi using your phone or laptop.
- Insert a USB wifi adapter which supports to one of the USB ports of your Raspberry Pi. Wait at least 1 minute to allow system to boot up.
- Use your device (phone/tablet or laptop) to connect to wifi ssid: TSSPi_AP, password is sprinkler.
- Open Chrome or any browser, use this address: http://192.168.1.70, you will see this: , click on Advanced and select "Proceed to 192.168.1.70": TSSPi-proceedTo.jpg|none
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