I have 15 zones, and Rachio’s recommendations came to about 15 total hours across all zones. Aside from the well-known annoyance of end-by scheduling always starting at a time assuming all zones will run, our watering restrictions would not permit watering across an entire 15 hour potential window (nor would I even want to!). We do not have strict watering restrictions on a per-day basis however (only one day a week is off-limits).
It would be great if that 15 hour window was at least split in half across 2 days. So I could break the zones into two different schedules, and assign each 3 out of the 6 available days. But Rachio doesn’t recommend running a flex daily schedule with less than 4 available days. The reasoning isn’t totally clear, but is it strong enough that going to a fixed schedule is actually better?
Anyways, has anyone in a similar boat found an ideal way of handling this?
To be honest I’m pretty disappointed so far with the Flex Daily scheduling intelligence. It’s pretty crazy to me that a feature that should just-work, and has been requested for years, is still not considered a priority. That is, end-by schedules actually ending at said time.