Just saw the Rachio IFTTT. What is the difference between the “If tomorrow’s forecast calls for rain, then rain delay” recipe and Rachio’s standard out of the box functionality?
Ours measures observed and predicted precipitation, while the IFTTT recipe looks at a forecast (I don’t know what the threshold is). With our rain delay we allow you to set specific thresholds like a real physical rain sensor.
I haven’t had any feedback on the IFTTT weather forecast recipe.
@ccoulson – this recipe on IFTTT is perfect for CA users to automate the 48 hour rain delay. It really depends on your use case and what you’re trying to accomplish.
A few quick notes: When I first started playing around with IFTTT last year, one or the easiest recepies to set up and test was “If it’s going to rain tomorrow, send me an email! #weather#gmail”. Several times since then, I’ve received the email letting me know that rain is forecast, so I knew that worked.
I also then implemented the Rachio recipe, and it works just as well. I would call it a good way to error on the water conservation side of thinking. The rain delay will kick in, even if the precipitation doesn’t meet the minimum for Iro to do it for its self.
I’m confident that Rachio’s scheduling would assure that I maintain a healthy, thriving landscape. Unfortunately, with the way things are here in Southern California, that is often frowned upon, if not illegal. For that reason, I often skip watering schedules, and keep the IFTTT recipe in place as an extra fail-safe to keep my water usage at a minimum.
Thanks @kelpayne, we appreciate your feedback and support. We see this IFTTT recipe as a great (and free) insurance plan for CA users that takes less than 5 minutes to setup.
If you stumble across any other recipes CA users should consider, please share them with us
I set up an ifttt for my iro: if it’s friday set rain delay for 1 day. This will stop my interval and flex schedules from running on Friday’s. Is there a way to use this with shared iro’s? When i pull down the witch device it is only showing my device and not devices that are shared with me. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks