Can you please tell me if Rainbird CPRSDBEX rain sensor is compatible with the Rachio2. I have one and I am trying to install on a Rachio2 and cannot seem to get it to work. I test it and I never see any notifications. This is with it wired directly into the Rachio with no wires spliced in between.
Yes, that is the exact rain sensor I bought from Amazon. From what I read if I push the spindle down in the rain sensor I should get an alert in device updates. Is that true? I even put water in the rain sensor and still did not see any notification. I just added the Rachio2 from a previous RainBird controller and had to replace a bad rain sensor that went out a year ago. I had to splice into the old wire that was in between the old sensor and the controller. To take the wire out of the equation I hooked the new rain sensor directly up to the controller and see no notification when the spindle is pushed down. Thanks for your help. .
@Flippy, thanks for confirming. Just a heads up, a rain sensor is not required on a Rachio – you get a virtual rain sensor if you enable the Rain Skip feature.
Yes, I had it enable and I know it is not required but since I live in S.E. Texas and we can have a heavy thunderstorm here and not at the closest real weather station (6 miles away) it would be just a bit of a back up to not let it water. I will try again tomorrow. Is there anyway to test this with a volt omh meter?