One fixed schedule stopped watering starting June. Why?

Schedules & Zones
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I have Gen2 controller with a schedule to water vegetable garden every day for 30 minutes. It is a drip tape that takes awhile to water the garden. It is by design.
I found today that the garden didn’t get any watering in the month of June. This is fixed schedule. I have Flex and Fixed schedules. They all seem to be working fine. It is this one schedule that decided not to water.

Wondering what the next steps to address this issue.

Thanks

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I found why. The fixed schedule has an end date of May 31st 2025. I moved it to 2029. That should fix it I guess.

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I’d recreate the schedule and not put an end date (you don’t have to have one…). Otherwise you’ll be cursing Rachio in 4 years for the same thing. :rofl:

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Thanks @tmcgahey!

I just wanted to say too that with some relatively newer scheduling options you could adjust this a few different ways. In your schedule settings in the “Start/end dates” section, you can change the schedule to never end. I find an ending schedule useful for grow new seed grow in, but otherwise like to just have my schedule run while my system is active.

Another option if you want the schedule to end and start again yearly is an option in that “Start/end dates” to repeat yearly. This allows you to have the schedule start on a Month/Day and end on a Month/Day and repeat that each year. This can be useful if you don’t hibernate your system.

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I’ve use end dates for seed before, but honestly, since I overseed every winter, I just enable/disable my fixed seeding schedules as needed. That way they are there and ready for me next year! Just re-enable them and I’m good to go!