I’ve been using Netafim subsurface drip lines with my turf for 14 seasons and this is my first try with Rachio. Unfortunately I’m finding I will need to manually tweak a lot of settings for the unique watering pattern of subsurface drip. The drip works better with multiple shorter waterings (e.g. if 30 min total required, 3 runs of 10 minutes to allow for percolation).
The flexible daily schedule with Smart Cycle looks like it has great potential - but is there any way to see exactly what the planned total duration and individual run times between cycles will be (or were in the past)? I have the general pattern pretty well set from years with a traditional controller so would be nice to start there and then let the Rachio adjust based on conditions.
If you select the calendar on your dashboard, then select any given watering day on that calendar, you can see the run times and soaking times for that day! I hope that helps!
If I click on the day on the calendar, below that I see:
Is that what you mean? (If I click on either of those schedules it just brings up the schedule edit page.)
What I’m looking for (and could swear I pulled up somehow before) is detail exact run duration for each zone.
If I click on a day in the calendar all that happens is that the watering schedules below the calendar expands. I seem to recall clicking on a day on the calendar brought up a detailed schedule for that day, but I’m not seeing that now. (Tried in Opera and Firefox.)
Are those durations in the edit schedule window “generic” or specific to that day? And how do I see potential breaks between the durations? (I have Smart Cycle on.)
No problem, I thought I had seen it on the webpage. I use the app far more frequently so works for me. So far the Rachio is working well, but I expect to need to do some tweaking later this summer to adjust for my turf subsurface drip so need to keep a close eye on the automation.
Thanks!