Hi everyone,
Just joined... we've had a pool for several years and we use a pool company to maintain it. Unfortunately, I believe them to be dishonest and incompetent. (For example, they'll say the water is pH 7 and it looks like 8, they'll claim its over chlorinated and my test strips show 0...) , either the test strips are worthless (possible, I guess especially if the pH is way out of range).
So I guess I'm looking for a bit of advice... 1) are they wrong/full of it (can post more details) and 2) I found this forum searching for automation, so depending on (1) , should I start building out my Raspberry Pi?... I have an engineering background so it should be doable.
The second question was regarding using salt water (in the context of automating) - would that be advisable ? the pool company (and one other) said not to, but I'm not sure I believe them given the above.
Just joined... we've had a pool for several years and we use a pool company to maintain it. Unfortunately, I believe them to be dishonest and incompetent. (For example, they'll say the water is pH 7 and it looks like 8, they'll claim its over chlorinated and my test strips show 0...) , either the test strips are worthless (possible, I guess especially if the pH is way out of range).
So I guess I'm looking for a bit of advice... 1) are they wrong/full of it (can post more details) and 2) I found this forum searching for automation, so depending on (1) , should I start building out my Raspberry Pi?... I have an engineering background so it should be doable.
The second question was regarding using salt water (in the context of automating) - would that be advisable ? the pool company (and one other) said not to, but I'm not sure I believe them given the above.
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