Handling of Tempest Station Offline?

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1

We just had a long stretch of cloudy days, resulting in my Tempest losing battery power and going offline. That caused it to miss a lot of rain. Rachio therefore watered when it shouldn’t have.

Does Rachio currently handle a user’s own Tempest station (the actual station, not the hub) going offline in some way? If so how? If not, please consider this an important “feature” request.

I think Rachio should supplement weather readings from other sources when a user’s Tempest station goes offline. Given so many options for weather readings, there shouldn’t be any period of time for which Rachio lacks readings. And shouldn’t blindly follow Tempest when it’s been offline.

How does this sound and can it be implemented?

2

If a Tempest station is offline, we fall back to our normal weather provider.

:cheers:

3

That sounds like a simple fallback based only on the current status though. If the tempest missed a rain storm while offline, but later came back online, then would Rachio still follow whatever rain amount (or lack thereof) tempest reports for that time period during which tempest was offline? Or would Rachio fill in the gaps on a time period by time period basis with another provider?