Timer shows watering, but no watering!

22
Jay Fahar
 Updated at 2023-07-11 12:26:26 UTC
Topic: Netro App

My scheduled watering starts at 7AM. Since we had rains for the past two days, the API apparently senses the moistures in the soil and stops watering as scheduled.  Today I monitired Netro showing zone-1 was ON. I looked outside and didn't see the zone watering!  I then went to the basement and listened for water flowing in the pipies. No noise!

I concluded that NETRO still shows scheduled watering, but the vales to all Zones are shutoff!!!?  This is a sofware bug and needs to be fixed?!

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19
Wency Pan
Updated at 2023-07-13 05:20:38 UTC

Dear customer,


Please check the wires. Are they loose or disconnected from the slots? Please also check the common wires and the master valve if you have one. If you believe the wires are correctly installed,  please check if there is a main valve/faucet that is turned off manually. 

To test if the controller is working properly, use a multimeter (AC voltage mode) to test the voltage between the common wire and the zone wire when the zone is active. Normally the voltage should be between 24V and 28V.

You might also want to check whether there are shorted zones or open zones. You just need to use a multimeter to measure the resistance between the common wire and each zone (remove the wires from the slots before testing the resistance). The normal reading would be 20-60 Ohms. If the reading is less than 10 Ohms then you might have a shorted circuit in the solenoid and if it is larger than 80 Ohms you might have an open circuit. 

Thanks,

Wency

Netro Support