IAqualink Run Pump 24 Hours

[bcre3306]

Hi

I tried searching but couldn't find it, so if I missed it I apologize. I want to run my VSP 24 hours a day at a low RPM. I adjusted the speed down to 1500rpm but clearly it won't let me schedule 12am-12pm so I tried an overlapping scheduled of 12:01am-11:59pm and 11:50pm-12:05am thinking it would cause it to never turn off but it appears it's have turned off at around midnight and turned back on at 12:05am(based off home assistant logs).

Any suggestions on how to run it for 24 hours? Only caveat is the swap to run in spa mode for 30min at 1pm-1:30pm which you can see the schedule in the screenshot.

Thank you

 

[PoolGate]

Hi

I tried searching but couldn't find it, so if I missed it I apologize. I want to run my VSP 24 hours a day at a low RPM. I adjusted the speed down to 1500rpm but clearly it won't let me schedule 12am-12pm so I tried an overlapping scheduled of 12:01am-11:59pm and 11:50pm-12:05am thinking it would cause it to never turn off but it appears it's have turned off at around midnight and turned back on at 12:05am(based off home assistant logs).

Any suggestions on how to run it for 24 hours? Only caveat is the swap to run in spa mode for 30min at 1pm-1:30pm which you can see the schedule in the screenshot.

Thank you

I do not believe there is any way to do it. Most people schedule a 5 minute break between on/off times on the schedule.

 

[generessler]

Some time ago @HermanTX mentioned that a Jandy tech told him "newer boards" will interpret a turn-off followed by turn-on one minute later as "don't stop," which gives you 24 hours. I can't confirm or deny.

 

[bcre3306]

Some time ago @HermanTX mentioned that a Jandy tech told him "newer boards" will interpret a turn-off followed by turn-on one minute later as "don't stop," which gives you 24 hours. I can't confirm or deny.

Interesting. My board is a new revision (Y) so I will give that a try. I really wish you could just control the pump(and speed) from home assistant because I would just do it all through that. Will give it a try tonight and post back.

 

[HermanTX]

Interesting. My board is a new revision (Y) so I will give that a try. I really wish you could just control the pump(and speed) from home assistant because I would just do it all through that. Will give it a try tonight and post back.

Do let us know. This was some time ago when I corresponded with Jandy tech and they said it was in the works. I have a T2 revision so that is 2 revisions below where they are today. I have a 15 min break in my 24 hr run - stop at 1:45 and restart at 2:00 I make the break in the afternoon to avoid any issues with DST events

 

[generessler]

I really wish you could just control the pump(and speed) from home assistant because I would just do it all through that. Will give it a try tonight and post back.

A path to get there might be open source AqualinkD. Seems pretty fiddly to me, but if home automation is your thing, it might work out

 

[bcre3306]

A path to get there might be open source AqualinkD. Seems pretty fiddly to me, but if home automation is your thing, it might work out

My problem with this is keeping a raspberry outside in FL humidity(even if it's in a waterproof box). Does anyone have experience with this in FL. Also Home Assistant is rock solid and I rarely have issues with it, it runs on a NAS with redundancy and on a UPS so downtime is pretty limited so really don't want to introduce a weak link if I don't have to.

 

[PoolGate]

My problem with this is keeping a raspberry outside in FL humidity(even if it's in a waterproof box). Does anyone have experience with this in FL. Also Home Assistant is rock solid and I rarely have issues with it, it runs on a NAS with redundancy and on a UPS so downtime is pretty limited so really don't want to introduce a weak link if I don't have to.

Don't you connect via WiFi?

 

[bcre3306]

Don't you connect via WiFi?

yeah but the cable from the iaqualink panel needs to physically connect to the raspberry so it would need to be located in/near the control panel outside unless I am missing something(which I really hope I am).

 

[PoolGate]

yeah but the cable from the iaqualink panel needs to physically connect to the raspberry so it would need to be located in/near the control panel outside unless I am missing something(which I really hope I am).

If it is the RS-485 cable you are talking about, I think you can run that like 1000 plus yards.

How are you connecting that?

 

[generessler]

There exists an iAqualink integration in the Home Assistant core. I have no experience with it. Looks like it's a thin client talking to the web API based on this project. I'm just starting with Home Assistant myself for a project unrelated to pools. So I'm not a good guy to ask about details. There are some discussions on line.

 

[bcre3306]

There exists an iAqualink integration in the Home Assistant core. I have no experience with it. Looks like it's a thin client talking to the web API based on this project. I'm just starting with Home Assistant myself for a project unrelated to pools. So I'm not a good guy to ask about details. There are some discussions on line.

I run HA now for the pool and outside of adjusting the pump speed everything is working great. I see on the line you sent for the java/api project that they seemed to find more on the pump speed, hoping that gets pulled into the HA project but not sure if thats going to happen. Doesn't seem like a lot of dev is going into it.

 

[bcre3306]

The schedule didn't work with the one min shutdown between schedules, it stopped the pump for a min. I am trying one other where I have a second schedule that goes form 11:59pm-12:01am and the original from 12am-11:59pm. Will provide feedback tomorrow to see how that works.

 

[WGpoolnewb]

My problem with this is keeping a raspberry outside in FL humidity(even if it's in a waterproof box). Does anyone have experience with this in FL.

I had this running for a while in Central Florida without issue. I was using AqualinkD. I took it offline because AqualinkD somehow interferes with the timing of the lighting selection, causing the lights to reset back to white.

There also has been discussion on the GitHub Issues page about success with an RS485/WiFi adapter, and it also looks like someone has it as a Docker container and Home Assistant add-on:

Got working with EW-11 wireless device! · Issue #300 · aqualinkd/AqualinkD

So, for ease of use, had to make the Dockerfile pull the aqualinkd-docker.cmd and aqualinkd.conf from my local repo for easier builds, and added at the bottom of the aqualinkd-docker.cmd the follow...

github.com

Here's the adapter:

Amazon.com

 

[bcre3306]

I had this running for a while in Central Florida without issue. I was using AqualinkD. I took it offline because AqualinkD somehow interferes with the timing of the lighting selection, causing the lights to reset back to white.

There also has been discussion on the GitHub Issues page about success with an RS485/WiFi adapter, and it also looks like someone has it as a Docker container and Home Assistant add-on:

Got working with EW-11 wireless device! · Issue #300 · aqualinkd/AqualinkD

So, for ease of use, had to make the Dockerfile pull the aqualinkd-docker.cmd and aqualinkd.conf from my local repo for easier builds, and added at the bottom of the aqualinkd-docker.cmd the follow...

github.com

Here's the adapter:

Amazon.com

Now that looks VERY interesting to me. I'm going to order the dongle once I get AqualinkD running in either a VM or a container. Knowing that I can now integrate it into HA makes it even more interesting to me. Thank you for pointing this out!

 

[bcre3306]

Tried with the overlapping schedule again and it just causes it to turn off for a minute then back on. I think my best bet at this point is try to get AquaLinkD running and control the schedules and speeds out of HA unless someone else has a suggestion to try.

 

[PoolGate]

You could just turn it on and not schedule it.

 

[bcre3306]

You could just turn it on and not schedule it.

The only challenge with that is if I’m traveling(which is every week) and the power goes out then the pump would be off for potentially several days. I could in theory run something in HA that if the pump is off then start it but without the speed control I’m not sure what would happen if the last know speed pump was during spa mode and the pump was running at 3200rpm.

 

[PoolGate]

The only challenge with that is if I’m traveling(which is every week) and the power goes out then the pump would be off for potentially several days. I could in theory run something in HA that if the pump is off then start it but without the speed control I’m not sure what would happen if the last know speed pump was during spa mode and the pump was running at 3200rpm.

Yep this is the issue. You have the full iAqualink however, right? So you can check on this remotely and turn on the pump if needed.

 

[bcre3306]

Yep this is the issue. You have the full iAqualink however, right? So you can check on this remotely and turn on the pump if needed.

Yeah absolutely an option but it's not something I want to think about all day which is why I am trying to automate it