Missing Soil temp and soil moisture tags

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Brian

Any chance of adding a couple missing tags for the newly explaned soil temperature and soil moisture readings you gave us?

I’ve been working on a page for it but noticed that several tags are missing:


$mrecordlowsoilmoist = '%mrecordlowsoilmoist%';
$yrecordlowsoilmoist = '%yrecordlowsoilmoist%';
$recordlowsoilmoist = '%recordlowsoilmoist%';
$mrecordhighsoilmoist2 = '%mrecordhighsoilmoist2%';
$mrecordlowsoilmoist2 = '%mrecordlowsoilmoist2%';
$yrecordhighsoilmoist2 = '%yrecordhighsoilmoist2%';
$yrecordlowsoilmoist2 = '%yrecordlowsoilmoist2%';
$recordhighsoilmoist2 = '%recordhighsoilmoist2%';
$recordlowsoilmoist2 = '%recordlowsoilmoist2%';
$mrecordhighsoilmoist3 = '%mrecordhighsoilmoist3%';
$mrecordlowsoilmoist3 = '%mrecordlowsoilmoist3%';
$yrecordhighsoilmoist3 = '%yrecordhighsoilmoist3%';
$yrecordlowsoilmoist3 = '%yrecordlowsoilmoist3%';
$recordhighsoilmoist3 = '%recordhighsoilmoist3%';
$recordlowsoilmoist3 = '%recordlowsoilmoist3%';
$mrecordhighsoilmoist4 = '%mrecordhighsoilmoist4%';
$mrecordlowsoilmoist4 = '%mrecordlowsoilmoist4%';
$yrecordhighsoilmoist4 = '%yrecordhighsoilmoist4%';
$yrecordlowsoilmoist4 = '%yrecordlowsoilmoist4%';
$recordhighsoilmoist4 = '%recordhighsoilmoist4%';
$recordlowsoilmoist4 = '%recordlowsoilmoist4%';

For the soil moisture, there is only a yearhighrecordmoist tag, no others and no history (year, month and record highs/lows)
Those would all be readings I’d like to offer the farmers here if you have time to add them sometime. Thanks

Scott

PS: Attached a sample of my testtags.php with the available tags showing values and the missing ones…

SampleTesttagsForSoil.txt (4.32 KB)

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there are these
%yrecordhighsoilmoist%…Year to date high soil moisture
%yrecordhighsoilmoistday%…Day that occured
%yrecordhighsoilmoistmonth%…Month that occured
%yrecordhighsoilmoistyear%…Year that occured

%mrecordhighsoilmoist%…Month to date high soil moisture
%mrecordhighsoilmoistday%…Day that occured
%mrecordhighsoilmoistmonth%…Month that occured
%mrecordhighsoilmoistyear%…Year that occured

%recordhighsoilmoist%…All time record high soil moisture
%recordhighsoilmoistday%…Day that occured
%recordhighsoilmoistmonth%…Month that occured
%recordhighsoilmoistyear%…Year that occured

that covers the soil moisture, yes?

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Yes, but only for the one level, there are 4 levels possible. Also,

$mrecordlowsoilmoist
$yrecordlowsoilmoist
$recordlowsoilmoist

don’t seem to be there. I assume because the value is likely to be 0 but for some levels and areas, it may not reach 0 in a month or year. I don’t have enough data yet to say one way or the other, just wondering.

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I have not added low soil moisture records, as thats likely to be so variable?
and no I had not added soil moisture records for the other probes you can have

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Ok, thanks

Scott

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how many users would benefit from a 2nd and 3rd soil moisture depth all time records?
to me, knowing the first depth is getting very wet (for record wet) would also mean depths lower down are likely to be very wet as well

it would better to instead to at least add record dry soil moisture, but , how variable is that reading?

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soil moisture doesn’t change much… I have 4 sensors for moisture and 4 for temperature. I have it at various depths and really the only important one’s are the current reading anyway.

From a historical view, the only time I would be interested in the highs and lows, would be if I had an unproved tract of land that I was to plant a crop in, it depends on nature and I wanted to get an idea of how moist the soil was to plant in, how often I needed to water it and so forth, or if I was to build something with a basement/cellar and wanted to know if I should need to waterproof the outer wall. But then again, they do that now …

I have found, that the deeper you go, the tendency for water to reach that depth depends on the soil structure and how long the water sits on the surface, the slope of the soil … water doesn’t go down as much as it moves laterally in the long run of things.

I would not benefit from those readings, Brian. I can pull off of the data logs all the readings, put them into a spread sheet, get the highs, lows, averages and a lot of other information. It keeps me busy, my mind occupied and my skills up.

Now having alarms for the extra humidity on the extra humidity sensors, now that would be great, but then again… I could be the only one in the planet who wants those alarms. I have them in the attic and in the basement. I can get the temperature alarms fine, but humidity would be great.

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No need to do as far as I can see. I’m probably the only one that would like to have more options for the soil stuff and I’m just writing in a database for my own use to track the readings I want to provide.

Scott

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using a custom mysql data base updated by the soil moisture/temperature could be a way to go
then you can use query for hi/low etc

is alot of code to write to add the records/tags/edit/user enter/reset into WD for what is requested
not impossible though…
now if I was bribed by $, more possible…LOL

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Not a problem, I’ve figured out that the more important information is how fast the reading are changing, for example amount of change in the past 3, 5, 7 days. I’m just going to export those readings a couple times a day and then get my numbers from that. I don’t think it will be two bad to write out to a text file and then just import when the page is called. I figure I can call the export php file on a schedule of every 6 hours from a Cron job.

Scott