I’ve observed an increase in glitches within the app. Unfortunately, my attempts to reach out to their email support have gone unanswered for a significant period, and I’ve encountered random disconnections during phone support calls.
Additionally, there’s a peculiar development where they seem to be promoting unrelated generic ecommerce products, such as umbrellas, to their audience of lawncare enthusiasts via email.
This series of occurrences strikes me as quite unusual. It’s uncertain whether these events are merely coincidental or indicative of something else.
I would not say they are anywhere close to going out of business. I know they are working on several things as they have talked about some of them. I am not sure what glitches you have been having, but have not personally experienced any nor have I noticed any increase here in the forums. I am guessing they might be out on holiday, extremely busy, or something with some unanswered messages from me lately.
Let’s hope so.
They thrust these stupid useless gadgets on the professional irrigation community without knowing anything about irrigation.
My guess is, based on the app and how it’s designed, it was programmed by a bunch of egghead’s in an office somewhere that have never worked an irrigation timer in their life.
Most useless pieces of junk on the market.
(of words or language) having little or no meaning; making little or no sense:
2.A baby’s babbling is appealingly nonsensical.*
(of behavior, conduct, actions, etc.) foolish, senseless, fatuous, or absurd:
4.His nonsensical behavior was unusual for such a serious person.*
objectionable, impudent, insubordinate:
6.I refuse to listen to that nonsensical gossip.*
of trifling importance or of little or no use:
8.I’ve had more than enough of your nonsensical advice!*
Funny, the algorithms behind Rachio’s scheduling and approach to settings (Flex Daily specifically) are actually rock solid if you spend the time comparing them to true commercial or agricultural watering techniques.
I’m not really sure why offering/promoting other backyard/outdoor items bothers you so much, or why that leads you to the conclusion that @franz and his team are going out of business, but if you don’t want an umbrella, don’t buy an umbrella.
They need to go out of business. I bought the Gen 2 when I was told by Rachio it would support HomeKit. Turned out they made the unit to cheap, so it did not have the memory required for HomeKit. I then bought a Gen 3 with HomeKit support, and they dropped HomeKit support because once again they made hardware too cheap and charge a premium price. I’m out about $400 from dealing with them. Never again.
