Couple of pics of my irrigation system that I recently completed. Inspiration for this project was influenced by Ian Birds Irrigation system . Im using Homevision to control the Irrigation via Port C. The Port C outputs drive Ian Birds opto isolated relay board. I have ran a 12 core cable from Node 0 to the Irrigation box. At Node 0 this cable terminates into a db15 . All cable to Homevision are made plugable for ease of servicing...

There are four zones , three of them located in the back garden and the forth is in the front section. There is also a master valve located at the water tap which supplies the Irrigation system . This was added after the mains hose popped off due to the mains pressure on the fitting when the system was idle. There is a periodic event that runs every hour to ensure all solenoids are off.
A scheduled event runs every morning at 6:30 and sequences each zone on for 5 minutes..

Have recently purchased a W800 rf receiver and also got a couple of small rf remotes from Laser . One of the rf remotes is able to control the irrigation system the other rf remote controls my External CBUS enabled security lites as both devices have an xPL Plugin.

As can be seen in the pics above I have installed a couple of cat5 cables and there is provision to install a Probe Zone Monitor so I can connect temp sensors etc if required.
The system works quite well and the wife can water outside scheduled times using the rf remote..so shes happy ...

Have just added a rain sensor which is connected directly to a Homevision PortB Input. This inhibits the watering sequence if it has been raining ..and an xPL OSD message is sent to my pc to inform me when the rain sensor triggers...

Next garden project is the RGB led garden lites so More Soon...