Yes, setting the device default time to 30 minutes, allowed Simple Irrigation to run the valve for 20 minutes. I also found that the first valve was actually turning itself off after the default devices 10 minutes, but not writing to the log. So both are set to 20 minutes now, and my plants are happy!
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Thanks for this app, It was much easier to setup my Orbit Hose Faucet Timer to water 3 short sessions a day than RM would have been and all 3 waterings today worked great.
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Nice job on a clean and simple app to address irrigation! Thank you for your time & energy on it.
I've just spun this up last week and wanted to let you know of a behavior I'm seeing.
(Running the latest release of HE by the way.)
I have a Tues - Thurs - Sun schedule of two morning waterings and have selected the option to be notified when the Orbit valve is OPENED and also when it is CLOSED. Thanks for designing that full informational messaging in. Also, I have used your safety defaults for potential errors in communications to the device.
====> All behaves as it should on scheduled days but I get the two CLOSED messages on the days that the schedule is NOT suppose to be active. I get no OPEN message on the non-scheduled days, just the CLOSED messages.
Could be some user error here so let me put that right up front! Let me know what more you might need to go on for investigation.
Thanks, always good to hear.
Debug logs of it happening.
Day of week chk failing. Humm. To be clear, everything is as it should be on the correct scheduled days.
app:1622020-04-29 08:00:00.236 debugIn pushNow...Sending message: Valve - Hose - Garden - 1040 - Tue/Thr/Sun/2x/for30ea - Valve - Hose - Garden - 1040 is now closed
app:1622020-04-29 08:00:00.234 debugIn pushNow...
app:1622020-04-29 08:00:00.232 warnValve - Hose - Garden - 1040 is now closed
app:1622020-04-29 08:00:00.230 debugIn turnValveOff - Valve is now closed
app:1622020-04-29 08:00:00.228 debugIn turnValveOff...
app:1622020-04-29 08:00:00.225 infoValve - Hose - Garden - 1040 - Tue/Thr/Sun/2x/for30ea didn't pass weather check. Water not turned on.
app:1622020-04-29 08:00:00.222 debugIn checkForWeather - Weather Check passed.
app:1622020-04-29 08:00:00.219 debugIn checkForWeather...
app:1622020-04-29 08:00:00.217 debugIn dayOfTheWeekHandler - Days of the Week Check Failed
New version on Github...
2.0.2 - 04/29/20 - Check for days match before turning valve off
Thanks.
Glad it was obvious.
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(Bryan.... Change "Simpe Irrigation" to "Simple Irrigation") 
are you going to give a hint on WHERE?! 
Oh, yeah.... In the Package Manager list. 
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See not so simple is it! lol
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Multiple Child Apps - Disable Inactive Schedules
The proper way to enable / disable various configured schedules would be through the HE App menu display where you can select apps/child to be disabled correct?
No negative consequences to this correct ?
Thanks again for this app.
That is the only way. 
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Greetings B-
App working like a charm but let me throw something non-critical out there for your consideration in the future.
Getting a notification that "a child is alive and operational" is valuable, I am glad you put that in.
But if one uses the three watering times in a series within the child (which is a very helpful approach to letting waterings soak in) you find yourself getting a bunch of notification, especially if one has a number of valves running under Simple Irrigation control.
It would be great to get just one notification reminding you that a child has initiated it's scheduled watering sequence, was not thwarted by any ancillary switch, weather, or moisture sensor ( or maybe announce that it indeed WAS thwarted by said switchs)...and then just trust that the opennings & closings are occuring as scheduled if it wasn't.
Just an idea that probably doesn't deserve your time unless others speak up and say, "yeah, I had to turn off notifications because they were too numerious (even though I really liked being reminded that the watering was happening successfully)".
Kind regards,
PP
First off, thank you for this app @bptworld. I've just started doing drip irrigation and it's perfect.
I did notice tonight that it didn't run because of my rain switch ([RELEASE] Weewx Local Capabilities) which is correct. - it did what it should have done, however I did receive a notification that the valve closed. I didn't get the open, just close. Any ideas? If not, I'll look at the code this weekend.
Thanks!
Brian
That's from the safety check. It sends a 'close' just in case.
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HI Brian,
I am thinking of setting up a drip irrigation system linked to Hubitat.
Will this work only with Orbit Hose timer #27087 or do you have any other suggestions?
It should work with any valve that can be paired and controlled with HE. No guarantees though.
New version on GitHub...
Child:
2.0.3 - 05/31/20 - Some great changes/additions by @bdwilson. Thanks!
- add option to disable safety notification
- change to switch
- update bool toggle for safety notification
- updates to skipping state
- update wording
- add optional notification for if watering session is cancelled via weather switch
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What’s the trick to remove an item from the schedule? Do I have to recreate the whole schedule? Can’t get this item to remove when clearing out hours and minutes and blanking the minutes. After I save it shows back up without any minutes. I added this entry to test some code and realized when i heard it engage tonight without any minutes!
