@MBLILawn I’m going to report these issues to the team and report back to you. This does sound like a bug.
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@dane can you let me know when fixed?
For me, this is critical because if I adjust the amount of irrigation, I need it to properly effect future waterings too so it doesn’t over water.
Thanks
@dane skipped right over your post/questions
Your logic doesn’t quite follow through.
Currently, the watering starts at [sunrise]-[time for all zones max time]. Pinging home an hour before that to determine what to run. (based on what others have said)
You could still “phone home” at that same time, and it would be exactly as accurate as it is now, except, at that point, recalculate the start to time to [sunrise]-[actual run time today]. If some freak weather happens in the couple hours before it starts running, it doesn’t matter because as it is now, it would have been running/done running already anyway.
You have a six year backlog of issues? Damn.
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You’d be surprised how many people have wanted this for other reasons besides irrigation over the years…
They have made it clear that they don’t intend to allocate any resources to the web app going forward. The web app is what it is until they decide to completely shut it off.
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6 year backlog of feature requests, not necessarily “issues”.
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They need to rethink that position. People are starting to move away from smartphones. The web interface may be the only option for a number of their customers.
Interesting take…I know a number of people, specifically younger generations that do EVERYTHING on a cell phone or tablet and don’t even own a computer.
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Here is one article that talks about the trend. I’ve seen other articles also.
Hi @MBLILawn I cannot replicate this:
However if I change my schedules down to the original time, the water journal updates to the amount the longer time put down
I have tested this on iOS, Android, and the web app and adjustments appear to be working normally. I apologize for the inconvenience with this request can you please DM me so I can get specifics and do some more testing? I sent a DM to you. Thanks!
I can’t imagine that this affects more than .01% of the worlds population right now…not to say it won’t be a “trend”, but seems like a nice opinion piece.
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With 8.1 billion people on the planet, 0.01% is 800,000 people. That should be enough to get Rachio’s attention. And I would thank you to stop responding to this post. Let the experts at Rachio comment on when they will fix this problem.
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800,000 people with flip phones! Nokia lives! 
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what’s a flip phone? 
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It’s so simple, you do back flips in joy over it.
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I believe my recent flex monthly random schedule skips started about 11 days ago, after this recent update. It seems to have skipped watering my plants for nearly 2 weeks, to the point where I thought maybe some plants just needed more water than others, and started watering them manually with a water hose. Lo and behold it seems this new software update destroyed my flex monthly programming predictability and reliability.
So I tried to copy the flex monthly schedule to a fixed schedule…no dice. You can copy but only to the same type of schedule, which is a severe limitation. And why can’t we edit a schedule and change it from flex monthly to flex daily or fixed? That seems like a basic limitation that severely prevents the changes of these schedules as needed.
Now I have deleted all of my flex schedules and painfully recreated each one as a fixed schedule, to ensure no schedules are skipped.
Nearly lost a dozen plants and small trees to this problem. Also not having clear visibility as to when certain zones / schedules being constantly skipped is a huge issue. I had no idea that my plants weren’t being watered for 2 weeks. Only when I look at all my plants do I see that they are so dry and on verge of dying, did I realize something was seriously wrong.
Rachio had been working ok for 3 years, and then all of a sudden it takes a dive and nearly takes out 1/3 of my plants with it. Very disappointing.
With this type of behavior, I would probably be better off with a traditional dumb timer, that does exactly what is programmed and nothing else. This mucking with algorithms feels a bit like over-engineered AI trying to kill my plants on purpose.
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Also not having clear visibility as to when certain zones / schedules being constantly skipped is a huge issue.
I agree. Having more debugging information on the client side would be great.
I woke up 5am this morning expecting to see my flex daily lawn zones had been watered since they were going below 0% moisture level in this heatwave only to see none had ran so far. They were scheduled for the next day even though the water journal for today says they had been irrigated. I had to manually run the zones then had one send me a notification that due to a weather change it was going to run today.
Haven’t had any problems like this from last season up until now. Hope this behavior doesn’t continue.
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I suggest you pose your question in the proper thread, instead of going off topic on this thread.
There are already previous threads discussing the web app. Not sure why that discussion should continue in this thread which is completely off topic.
It was not off-topic. My comment started as a piling-on criticism of adding features with limited usefullness, which is exactly the topic of this thread, while some other really annoying long-lived bugs remain unfixed. Like others, I would prefer fixes to existing UI and stability to be a much higher priority than adding features. Again, very much on-topic.