Care to share your favorite threads?

[laura.bauman]

We’re looking for Rachio family, community-approved threads for an ongoing project! We would love for you to share your favorite threads regarding:

• Best ways to improve lawn care
• Tips for watering your lawn
• Dying Grass
• Best Sprinkler System Improvements
• Decreasing Water Rates
• Leaks/Reason to buy a Flow Meter

Thanks in advance!
-Lo

[Kubisuro]

I enjoy this discussion and will refer to it when I redo my lawn sprinklers:

Can my irrigation be (easily) improved?

You’re probably right… I wasn’t thinking about the catch cup… just head to head coverage between 1-3 & 3-4. Still, even just having one at #4, you went from 15ml to 20ml… that’s a 33% improvement. If you’re using standard 10 minute catch cup cycles then you’re realistically talking about adding another 20-40 ml in that area during normal watering by using an MP2000.

[tmcgahey]

I’m going to go out on a limb and bet that a majority of the “favorite” threads are going to be from @azdavidr. Overachiever!

[tmcgahey]

Drip Emitter Calculator for Precipitation Rate & Area

I put together a calculator for precipitation rate (PR) and area of emitter systems that do not have continuos, evenly spaced emitters. The calculator is complete, and includes the link to the Web Soil Survey instructions as well. The calculator is easy to use, but please read the notes above the calculator to be sure you give it the right data. The information below the calculator is just a description of the equations involved, so ignore that part of you don’t care for the details. Please …

Using Web Soil Survey to define your soil settings

I found through my own experience that setting an incorrect soil type can have a dramatic impact on the watering duration and frequency of flex schedules. I’d lived in my home for 22 years and always assumed we had a lot of clay in our desert soil. Through these forums I found that was not the case, and instead we have sandy loam. Changing that setting really had a big impact on my scheduling. Finding out your soil type can be confusing, but I personally found the USDA Web Soil Survey site t…

[azdavidr]

@tmcgahey

I’m going to go out on a limb and bet that a majority of the “favorite” threads are going to be from @azdavidr. Overachiever!

Haha, thanks @tmcgahey. I think I fall into the overachieving underachiever category. Or, wait, maybe the other one.

[DLane]

@laura.bauman - Since Gen 2’s still depend on Aeris, I’d throw @Gene’s WUYFI post out there:

Using WUnderground.com to integrate Personal Weather Stations

I currently have a PWS (Personal Weather Station) running on my house (AcuRite 5in1 with internet bridge: http://bit.ly/1l2o813 ), which transmits data to the weather underground. My Station is at: http://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KCABREA6 My PWS tracks rain fall which would be awesome to be able to delay my sprinklers based on the rainfall collected by my PWS. This would be useful for people that doent have a PWS too, since they might find a nearby neighbor t…

Also, @mckynzee had a similar request - Rachio MVP: Most Valuable Posts - last year. I think most of those have already been picked up.

I’d also suggest something about what/how to post in the community for asking for assistance besides “it isn’t working. Grass dying. Please help.” Like pictures of wiring, actual settings, network information, etc.