I keep getting notifications about this tread, since I’ve participated previously, but this is perhaps the last time I reply here (turning off notifications for this tread from hereon). Again, I’m not a Rachio employee, so don’t take this as defending one side or another, but as a developer these are some issues that would prevent integration from Rachio side:
- No webhook support as far as I know. Webhooks are used to send out notifications without querying for new data. API limits means that getting near realtime flow data from flume would exhaust resources and/or provide subpar performance.
- Flume does not provide any soft of identification for flow data within API. Meaning that Rachio would not be able to differentiate between irrigation usage and a washing machine in case both are running at the same time (as an example)
- Expected advantage is too limited. Reporting a whole house consumption on irrigation report is of little use, meanwhile flagging a zone as leaking while someone is taking a shower would prove frustrating and would likely lead to integration being discontinued.
Frankly, you guys are asking a wrong side of the equation. You are much better off reaching out to flume to have them integrate with Rachio from their side. With your API key, they could quickly setup webhook notifications of when and which zone is running and add irrigation usage to their app / reports. Again, even they would not be able to guarantee that usage during irrigation was wholly consumed by Rachio, but at least they would make their customers happy with much less effort that it would take for Rachio to find something useful (and importantly possible & reliable) to do with flume data.