Suggestion: Maintenance Mode

So in reference to Is there a way to manually advance to the next station? of how to advance to the next zone during closing of the system, I think there would be a great feature for a ‘System Maintenance’ area added to the slide in left menu under Custom Nozzles, Help, etc.

If you could add the ‘System Maintenance’ and this screen shows all 8 (or 16) zones in a tile view. All zones should show on the same screen with no scrolling required.

  • Click on a zone and it starts watering. (Zone becomes highlighted so you know it’s selected/running)
  • Click another zone and it switches to that zone. (Highlights new zone and unhighlights the first zone)
  • Click the same (highlighted zone) and it turns off the zone.
  • Leave the maintenance area and if a zone is running it turns off.

Not only does this help in the closing of a system but also for replacing nozzles, testing, etc. No timing, advancing, etc. built in to this area. It’s a straight on/off of each selected zone.

When I’m shutting down my system, I like to loop through all the zones a few times so that they have time to cool off the lines between blowing and I can go back to the zones that seem to have more water remaining in them. This would be a much easier way to run through that process.

Hopefully this could be something you could sprint through quickly for the end of this watering season. :wink:

Thanks for your hard work and consideration.

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Thanks for this great suggestion, I know we want to build a winterization feature and these all make sense. I’ll make sure the product team is aware of these suggestions and if we are able to incorporate.

:cheers:

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Hello @franz,

Hope all is going well there at Rachio. I moved to Alaska a few years ago now and unfortunately do not have enough water pressure available to run a full sprinkler system. As a result, I no longer have a Rachio or the app available.

Has any of these features been added to the app to allow easier winterization?

I no longer wish to continue paying for the domain / hosting of the winterizinator site. Would Rachio like to assume control of the domain for your users to continue utilizing? It could continue to run on my web server as that won’t likely be decommissioned for decades, but could easily be added to something that Rachio would host.

Let me know your thoughts. The domain is set to expire in a couple of months.

We have added support to make hibernating the controller easier, but nothing around these features.

We do not have any desire to assume control of the domain. Very much appreciate you building this and passionate around this issue.

I hope you are enjoying Alaska!

:cheers: