Patent ID: 9678485
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: A01G,G05B

Claim:
1. A landscape controller, comprising: a control panel for entering and/or selecting a watering schedule; data memory and program memory storing an operational program including a watering program for executing the watering schedule; a plurality of station module receptacles located on a back plane, each station module receptacle configured to receive a removable station module, each removable station module comprising a plurality of switch circuits for energizing one or more valves; a processor connected to the data memory and the program memory and configured to execute the operational program and control the plurality of switch circuits in accordance with the watering schedule, the processor, the data memory, and the program memory located on the control panel; and at least one feature module comprising a flash memory device, each feature module of the at least one feature module inserted into a corresponding feature module receptacle located on the control panel, the at least one feature module operatively connectable to the processor through a communications path located on the control panel, wherein the communication path between the processor and the at least one feature module does not include the backplane, the at least one feature module configured to provide additional functional irrigation features not available without the at least one feature module, the processor configured to execute the additional functional irrigation features when the at least one feature module is operationally connected to the processor, the flash memory device configured to provide additional memory capacity not provided by the data memory and the program memory.