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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2014
Rain Bird Corporation, Azusa, CA (US);
Jonathan I. Marsters, San Diego, CA (US);
Harvey J. Nickerson, El Cajon, CA (US);
Sundarraj Karthikeyan, San Diego, CA (US);
Douglas H. Callison, Winchester, CA (US);
Steven A. Hollington, Oro Valley, AZ (US);
Darin K. Price, San Diego, CA (US);
Rain Bird Corporation, Azusa, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and decoder-based irrigation controller, and method and programming chart, are provided. In some embodiments, a decoder-based irrigation controller comprises a microcontroller; and a first connector coupled to the microcontroller and configured to couple to a reader, wherein the reader comprises an optical reader configured to read an optically readable pattern, wherein the first connector is further configured to couple an input from the reader to the microcontroller; and wherein the microcontroller is configured to interpret the input from the reader and perform an action at the decoder-based irrigation controller according to the input.