API Issues

Smart Home & API API
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I am currently experiencing issues with the Rachio API. As an example, I am no loner seeing rainDelayStartDate and rainDelayExpirationDate in the JSON devices object. I am also no longer seeing the high and low temperatures in the JSON output. Is this a known issue?

Regards,
Ultrajones

2

The weather forecast output is also wrong. The weatherType seems to be stuck at clear-day.

“weatherType”:“clear-day”,
“weatherSummary”:“Showers”,

3

rainDelayExpirationDate is now supported in V3 and is fixed in the API. We no longer have the concept of rainDelayStartDate.

These were missed. The team will be pushing a patch release tonight.

This will be fixed in the future. Mapping the different data types will take a bit of time.

:cheers:

4

Thank you for the fix regarding the high/low temperatures. I also noticed the Zone runtime and maxRuntime are missing. Is that something that can be added back to the API?

Regards.
Ultrajones

5

Those two fields are not accessible with the new system.

If you really want that data you can derive with this equation using the data retrieved from the zone.

(((x/y)*3600)*((1/(0.4+(0.6*z)))*w))=r

x -> irrigation amount in inches
y -> irrigation flow rate (inches per hour)
z -> efficiency
r -> runtime (minutes)

x = MAD * AWC * RZD

Max runtime would be 10% above derived runtime.

:cheers:

7

I am having a bit of trouble trying to figure this out. How to I calculate x? What is MAD, AWC, RZD?

I have:

y = zone.customNozzle.inchesPerHour
z = zone.efficiency
x = ?

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@ultrajones

Management Allowed Depletion (more affectionately known as MAD)
Soil available water capacity (AWC)
Crop root zone depth (RZD)

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