As Needed Schedules are inferior to Flex Schedules

[franz]

Thanks for all of this feedback, great points and we do appreciate this passion and our community, and everything is noted.

I think this thread sums up most answers and our path forward. Hope this helps.

What is the REAL reason to abandon Flex?

Reading posts on this forum for a spell, I tend to think there is more to Rachio’s decision to transition from Flex to As Needed than meets the eye. It must require considerable computational resources on Rachio’s part to support Flex. Think about it, they must continuously monitor specific microclimate data for every Flex user location in the world and communicate the results to the respective IROs. Yes, to some extent this is probably true with As Needed, but I would venture not nearly as comp…