So just to make sure we are talking about the same thing. I’m using the “smart hose timer”. I’m growing new seed and I wanted to water everyday (hourly) for 5 minutes. I live in east texas, it’s hot! Got germination today!
This is how I ended up doing it so that it would water from 8am - 9pm, every hour for 5 minutes. It’s a pain to set up but it works.
Schedules → created new schedule → name your schedule → select valves → select, on a daily interval → water every 1 day.
From here you set up what time and how long you want to run. You have to do every hour individually. So for me.
Time of day → specific time → 8am → total run time change to 5 mins.
Once done, at the bottom you see add another run.
Add another run → time of day → 9am → total run time change to 5 mins.
Add another run → time of day → 10am → total run time change to 5 mins
So on so on. It will stop once it waters for the last PM hour of that day and start again the next day with the AM waterings.
Once you have selected the “times” and “how long” options you want. Click next to finish the set up, it will ask you a few more questions that are personal preference but that’s about it.
It’s a pain to set up, but I like it now. You have control over individual waterings.