Patent ID: 9547313
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: A01G,G05B,G05D,Y10T

Claim:
1. An irrigation controller comprising: a housing; a control panel removably coupled within the housing, the control panel including a first microcontroller configured to execute stored irrigation programs and a first set of code of the control panel; and a removable plug-in device that removably mates with a portion of the control panel such that the removable plug-in device is communicationally coupled to the first microcontroller, wherein the removable plug-in device comprises a memory storing a second set of code to replace at least a portion of the first set of code of the control panel, wherein a copy of the second set of code is transferred to the control panel to overwrite at least the portion of the first set of code of the control panel to reflash the control panel.