How well does Rachio adjust for rain on a local weather station? Super frustrated with Rainbird - woke at 6am to a 2" downpour, and sprinklers were happily running. Rain has been forecast for a while and the 5 day forecast shows it for today! The “seasonal adjustment” had changed itself to 148%!! H…

As long as the weather station you have it pointed to is reporting correctly (or have your own), it does very well. It will look at both forecasted, as well as check prior to a run for active rainfall. You can set the threshold before it skips as well. And yes, you can cancel a run from the app!

@redcoat - I believe Rachio checks the weather for the next run 12 hours and 1 hour before the schedule starts. Rachio looks at actual rain 24 hours in the past and predicted rain 24 hours in the future. Below a certain probability/coverage of rain Rachio will multiple the probability times the …

I had issues using the weather intelligence network, where the controller tries to predict the weather at my location. It literally wanted to water during a hurricane. However, selecting a specific weather station near my home has worked as expected. I monitored this station before installing the R…

The recommendations I’ve read on this site is to not use WI and instead choose a local weather station. I think the begs the question, does WI work for some people? Does it just not work the way it was intended?

It worked acceptably for me from when I installed the Rachio in 2021 until around the middle of 2022 when it lost any semblance of accuracy. If I recall correctly, there was a rollout of the weather intelligence feature to all systems around this time. Before, only certain models supported the weath…

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redcoat July 19, 2023, 11:12pm 7

Great, thanks everyone!