Have one output turn on once per week?

[Sniklefritz]

I'm fairly new to the Hydros so please bear with me. I recently purchased one of the 4 plug wifi strips to use in my garage near my mixing containers to control heaters and pumps, and whatnot. Setup was fairly easy, but I'm having trouble with one thing.

I'm trying to have one of the outlets turn on once a week (preferably every Monday) for around an hour and wondering if this is possible. My hope is to control a pump in my RODI container that will fill the ATO container (container has a float valve) underneath the tank once a week, or possibly twice a week as needed. This would also come in handy with things like having it automatically turn on my mixing station pump and heater 12 hours or so before I do my weekly water changes on Sundays...now that I think of it!

 

[thom_smith]

They put the ability to assign day of week in Generic inputs in a recent release and promptly removed when it didn't work correctly. It'll be back eventually. At least I hope so. In the meantime, there is a workaround. Not the most straightforward but it works.


Use a Simple Doser output. Don't worry that it is controlling a pump. It doean't matter in the least and is juat a means to an end accomplishing what you want to do weekly. Use a 1ml rated pump.speed to keep.things simple. Be sure to enable external schedules, the key to making this work. Then you can also click the pencil.in upper left and change the icon to a pump.





From the left dropdown, select SCHEDULES and create a Dosing Regimen schedule. Set your Start Time and End Time the same with Dose Count 1. Same start and end are implied 24 hours but with count 1 it will only run once at the start time. Unselect all days except Sunday. Make your total dose 120ml. Remember I said set doser speed to 1ml/min. So now this runs yout pump for two hours (120 minutes). Adjust accordingly.




Lastly, create a heater just like you normally would. Make it Depend On DEMO WEEKLY with an Off if Off Dependency Mode. This will prevent heater from running unless pump is also running.

 

[Sniklefritz]

Thank you for the detailed explanation! Looks like that will work great!