Use shortcuts to make the commands in more natural language.
@franz - I forget, were there ever plans to include a time aspect to the commands, or was that too difficult? Would be nice to have the option to ask “turn the shrubs on for half an hour,” etc.
There do not seem to be any runtimeDuration commands? Like:
run zone {zoneNumber} for {runtimeDuration}
But I do really like that with Google you can use zoneName’s, but if you can’t say a duration, it’s not very useful.
my .02 this isn’t great. all the intro text is too long and google sucks at understanding rachio. I setup a google assistant shortcut so when I say sprinklers It hear “talks to rachio”
There were some technical limitations to the Google Assistant we couldn’t overcome in regards to including the zone name and duration in the same sentence.
So for now, you can say “Ask Rachio to water zone 3”. It will then ask you for how many minutes.
Using Google Assistant on my Samsung S6 unable to water just 1 zone, it tells me it does not understand. Only thing it does understand is to water all zones. Will it ever be able to water individual zones?