New Lawn - need more options!

[jmarchiando]

I have a newly hydroseeded lawn and need to water from AM to PM every 4 hours and stop at 4:30 PM. I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to stop the watering schedule at 4:30. I use the Fixed schedule, choose Hourly Interval, choose Every 4 Hours, select the “End Before a Specific Time”, choose 4:30 PM and it still has watering scheduled after 4:30 PM! What am I doing wrong? I don’t want to manually operate the Rachio - what would be the point? Need some advice here - this doesn’t seem to be working correctly.

[twin1]

Until Rachio makes a schedule type for new seed/sod, here are two work arounds.

The simplest way might be to create 4 separate schedules, each with a different start time. The start times could be 4:30 am, 8:30 am, 12:30 pm and 4:30 pm.

Here’s another way, which requires only one schedule, but is a little more complex to setup. You would need to adjust the times to fit your needs:

New lawn day schedule only

Until Rachio adds your feature request, here is one way to achieve what you need. It’s a little complicated to setup, but once you have the settings dialed in, it does work. You will have to run your other zones at night, while this schedule is in effect.