I am trying to come up with some config file format for the irrigation schedules.

Some back ground information, as you might know, I got a fancy internet based
irrigation controller, the irrigation caddy. I place the irrigation caddy behind an openwrt
based wireless router so I can use the home wireless network to access it.

The timer function provide by irrigation caddy itself is very limited. There are only 3
timers total. I can make up for that using the openwrt router. The router can send
command to irrigation caddy as if it was click "RunNow" from the Web UI. I want
to make this feature as some enhancement package for openwrt. It will be open sourced.

Before I get too fancy with the water data collection. I would like to have the some
kind of config file to describe the water schedule. Put it this way, if I can give you
the ultimate control of the water schedule, what will be the config file look like?

Here is some config file I have in mind:

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config 'controller' 'caddy'
   option type 'irrigationcaddy'
   option url  'http://caddy/'
   option scale 100

config 'schedule' 'lawn'
   # option disable 0
   option controller 'caddy'    #optional if there is only one controller
   option zone1 20
   option zone2 20
   option days '1 5'   # Mon & Fri
   # option cycle '1 week'
   option start '8:00 10:00'

config 'schedule' 'flower'
   option zone5 10
   option zone6 10
   option days '2 4 6'   # Tue, Thu, Sat
   option start '8:00'


Some consideration:

• Can support more than one controller.
• No limit of number of schedules
• Easy to add start up time to existing schedule
• The cycle of days can be "1 week" , "2 week", "7 day", "1 month"

Any suggestion or feed back are welcome.