Hello! Just thought I’d post a couple of observations about my first couple of watering attempts with Iro this week. I stuck with the defaults for the most part during setup, except for zone square footage and watering start times:
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I noticed a fair amount of runoff for my front yard. What would be the best way to tune this? Decrease time? Change slope? Soil?
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For my back yard, the ground was still sopping wet (squishy when walked across) about six hours after watering had ended. Is this to be expected, or should I adjust?
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We had a good amount of rain (and hail) last night, but today’s scheduled watering still ran (until I manually stopped it). It looks like the weather station that is supposedly closeby didn’t record any rain, so I turned off the “personal weather stations” setting. The station it is now using is even further away, but hopefully will be more accurate… In any case, I was a little sad that it didn’t automatically adjust itself.
A couple of general questions as well:
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Most of my zones have significant overlapping areas in the lawn. How should I account for this in the settings?
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If I change zone settings, will the watering times/smart cycle adjust accordingly? Or do they have to be recreated?
Thanks!
Chris