Farm Irrigation Controller
A farm irrigation controller has to run more than one valve on a clock. RowCodes is the field hub at the pump house, the valves and pumps it talks to, and the phone or browser you use to run them.
Three pieces, not a box of menus
1.Field hub
One box on a mast at the pump house, on power and on your internet. It reaches the wireless valves by long-range radio. If it drops offline, valves already running still shut on their own timers.
2.Valves and the pump controller
Solar wireless valves thread onto existing risers. Pumps, injectors, mainline meters, and any wired valves sit on the controller at the pump house. You claim a wireless valve by scanning the code on it.
3.The phone
Open, close, schedule, and read records. The same login can be limited: control for the foreman, read-only for the office, a separate installer login that you can revoke after hand-over.
How to judge one
Ask whether Close still works while an open is sending. Ask what happens to a valve and a pump when the internet dies. Ask whether unmetered water is omitted or printed as zero. Ask who can be removed from the account without a service call.
A longer buying list is in how to choose an agricultural irrigation controller. The install order is the same three steps: hub, valves, phone.
Questions
Do I program it from a panel in the shed?
You run it from the phone or the browser. The field hub is the radio and the link. There is no separate programming box to learn.
Keep reading
RowCodes is the hub, the valves, and the phone
RowCodes puts a field hub at the pump house, wireless valves on the risers, and the controls on the phone, with each open confirmed for a run time. Installers do the site work on their own login. Log in to a farm you already have.