So it’s been raining a lot here over the last week or so and the ground is saturated. I checked Rachio before I went to bed last night, and the home screen showed it was skipping due to weather intelligence and ground saturation. I wake up this morning and discover the sprinklers ran anyway. Lookin…

I had the same happen a few days ago. Even worse, Rachio did not record the run and moisture calculation did not reflect it.

Hey @Lovindanet ! So sorry for the confusion and frustration! Our team took a deep dive and found that your weather station, KTKI reported a very small level of precipitation, which would allow the schedule to run. Would you be up for trying out another weather station to see if that fixes the issu…

Hey @mStudios , We’re not seeing the same thing on our end - would you mind going into more detail or sharing some screenshots? -Lo :rachio:

Hi Laura, thanks for the quick response. The only screenshot I have available is this one, which shows the history from last night. I didn’t take any other screenshots yesterday, and the status displayed in the home page is gone. [image] However, my issue isn’t really with the weather station not…

Hey @Lovindanet , Skips get checked at least 12 hours and 1 hour before the start time, usually more often if there are external factors such as schedule modifications etc. In your case at 10:30 pm forecasted precipitation was high enough for saturation skip to trigger, another skip check happened a…

Thanks theflexdude. I understand the constraints in checking status for weather skips, however it seems like the current solution errs on the side of wasting water (and money). It doesn’t seem like a very intelligent decision that a check at 10:30p would decide the lawn is saturated, then four hours…

Laura, just a followup, I had already changed my weather station from another one near me as that closer one, KADS, never appeared to report any rain at all. KTKI appeared to be properly displaying rainfall totals.

http://w1.weather.gov/obhistory/KTKI.html shows barely any precipitation. If you would like to force a skip you can always set a rain delay for a period of time on your controller. You can also lock in a skip by manually skipping as you already know. If we ignore agility of weather, then there will …

Theflexdude, I get what you are saying, but as I said in my initial post, I didn’t have the option to perform a skip or rain delay in the app because it had already decided to schedule one. That’s the root of the problem, the controller had decided to skip, it no longer gave me the option to manuall…

[image] Lovindanet: I would like to have the option to override or lock in a weather intelligence skip in the app so I can have some predictability. If you “run” a skip and then “skip” the run again, this will apply a manual force skip to a run.

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