I live in Denver, and the forecasts are notoriously unreliable. Rain is forcasted every single day, and we rarely see any. It is very localized here; I can be bone dry and a mile away someone is getting clobbered. That is likely the problem. So my system wants to skip most every run due to forecasted precipitation that never occurs. It would be great if it were based on actual precipitation only and never took these fake, incorrect forecasts into account. It doesn’t look like there is a way to turn that portion off unfortunately.
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Obviously if the skip is based on actual precipitation only then it will not skip if your scheduled watering is before the rain, assuming it has been correctly forecasted.
But if the forecast is totally unreliable, maybe you should consider adding a rain sensor and allow skip based only on the sensor. Alternatively, you could consider turning off the rain skip?
@psartoris We support this functionality on our platform and are looking to expose it in the mobile app as a flag that can be set on schedules. The product team is looking to get this on our roadmap.
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Yeah, the inaccurate forecasting is basically the problem. For instance there’s rain in the forecast for Denver this afternoon, but it will be 2 very localized storms moving around the city and most of it will be bone dry. Rain sensor is in the long-term plans, so I guess just manually handling the rain skips for now.
You could also try moving the skip threshold up. I think default is .25", which honestly is not much water at all considering that when you water your lawn or drip for your plants, you are putting down more water than that. I don’t have a huge issue here in AZ since it just never rains 
, plus I have Flex Daily schedules, so the dynamic schedule will adjust, but my threshold is 1/2".
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