Big Difference Between Flex Daily and Flex Monthly

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I think the reality is that soil weather and plant conditions are infinitely variable, so there is no way to do an exact representation of every specific set of conditions.

Rachio already exposes many different parameters so each can pick the ones that ultimately do the best job at tuning their specific conditions.

I do agree that ultimately it would be nice to add a layer of intelligence over the existing algorithm to make the tuning more intuitive and less technical.

Below is a recent thread on the subject

I find rachio to be way more complicated than it needs to be

Here is the thing. Those who are passionate on these types of forums will always defend complexity over generalization. I fully expect to be disagreed with. Yet… Companies that reduce complexities wins the long game and gets loyal customers. the IPhone, the Next and a whole slew of consumer tech like netflix etc spends disproportionate amount of time to reduce complexities for the end-user in exchange for a real pleasant out of the box experience. Rachio falls pretty short in that regard. I ha…