I purchased this product today at Home Depot.
I plugged in the unit, and tried to Blink up the device. The issue is,
When I plug in the device the WIFI light blinks orange about 5 seconds, then immediatly red. I have still walked through the initial process several times, and have tried several devices (ipad, android) to program the Rachio IRO. Nothing is working and I am super frustrated!
It didn’t work for me either with my iPhone 6+ (with screen protector on it). I switched to my iPad Air with success. Still spent two hours trying to figure it out and/or trying to reset it back to factory defaults (unable to do that unless it has actually been added to your account/successfully connected). It is working great now though.