I’m not even going to try and fool you all today. A) I’m a terrible liar, and b) you all are too good and likely wouldn’t fall for it anyway.
So instead, I’m going to give you all a little challenge. We want to see the best dumb tricks you can play on your friends/family/pets/etc with your Rachio controller! You have until Friday at 11:59 to complete the challenge, record it, and share in this thread!
We will choose a winner by votes from the Rachio HQ team. That person will win a nice little swag gift from us.
Rules:
Be kind. We will not tolerate physical harm to humans or animals.
Feel free to use other tools or integrations to complete your challenge. But you must use your Rachio controller as well.
You must record, by way of video or photography, your challenge.
You must post your photo or video as a response to this thread by 11:59 PM MST on Friday, April 5th.
Man, best I’ve done so far is get my neighbor to stop letting his dog poop in my yard (and not picking it up). I set up ring camera pointed at my lawn, set the motion zone to include just the grass, set a rule in Smartthings (back when the integration worked better), and voila! Took about 3 days of walks for the neighbor to realize that it wasn’t just a coincidence that the sprinklers kicked on everytime his dog went into my lawn…
Thankfully no! It was in a year that I didn’t overseed winter grass, so my bermuda was dormant. I’m sure that really made the neighbor scratch his head why I was watering dead grass…
Feeling incredibly cruel and guilty as the kids rabbits fled when Siri responded to the sprinkler. Not sure if I dare post evidence.
Well also evidence of a lawn full of thatch that never got sorted last spring
Thankyou @laura.bauman and Rachio for the great swag that arrived this morning. Rabbits still have a trust issue with me.
Just installed Arlo Ultra cameras so next time I may capture the stray cat on the lawn and automate the sprinklers with homekit and motion detection (once the pending Arlo homekit support is released)
