In my area, we have watering restrictions that don’t allow watering outside specific hours, but we can choose any three days to water, Sunday to Saturday.
I would like my system to know this - let’s say I plan to water M, W, and F. Watering occurs M, but on W we have a wind skip. I want it to then plan to water Th and Sa, and then M the schedule resets for the week.
I would envision a setting that requests restrictions - watering days, days/week, and/or times of day. This seems fairly easy to implement. Is there a way to do this now?
It is easy to set what 3 days you want the system to water, but no, if there is a wind skip on a particular watering day, it won’t be able to water outside of the 3 days you set and will water on the next scheduled watering day.
Rachio is much too focused on their FLEX programming and really doesn’t want to hear about those of use with watering restrictions We should be able to set the restrictions at the controller level.
Bumping this topic as we are now in a new watering year. Our summer watering restrictions will kick in on 1 May and run through 15 October.
Please design in an intelligent feature to incorporate watering restriction inputs into the logic so that I can ensure my lawn gets sufficient water this summer.
I’m back to comment on this lack of support too. I need at least two “End before Sunrise” programs and cannot use Flex because of water restrictions. Rachio seems to be busy making money on all sorts of extensions and has ignored users who cannot use FLEX schedules.
You guys are asking Rachio to intelligently water your yard based on weather situations and seasons, but also stay within watering parameters…?
Essentially, that is what Flex Daily does. It isn’t able to fully stretch its wings when limited to only certain watering days, but it will in fact keep tabs and try to keep up. The issue arises when it limits the amount of water it puts down in a single day based on the calculations of what the plants need (based on YOUR inputs) since it is trying to NOT overwater. If you can only water 2-3 times a day, that might not be enough to keep things happy, and you may need to manually adjust the run time up a bit (which you can do in the schedule) to give the plants just a tad more water each day they are allowed to run.
