Watering times suddenly changed from 15 min to 3 hrs

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2 of my zones suddenly changed watering times from 15 minutes to 3 hours today. I know for sure I didn’t accidentally do this because you have to click the + button 165 times (or hold it down for a long time, as I just discovered). This is a Flex Daily Schedule set to End Before Sunrise on a Rachio 3. The other 3 zones in this schedule still show the correct watering times: 15 min, 15 min, and 30 min. I have 3 other schedules as well but they seem unchanged.

Thankfully I saw this before it actually ran for a total of 7 hours!

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The only thing I can think of is that I unplugged the power to the device Sunday afternoon and then plugged it back in Sunday evening. But it ran correctly on Wednesday, and today is Thursday, when I noticed that it had changed.

Firmware version: iro3-firmware-hk-5-632

Any ideas what happened?

Thanks,
Russell

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Can you post some screen shots of your schedules? Is there a chance that you are in fact seeing total “run time” which might include 30 minutes of cycle soak every 5 minutes of run time?

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Thanks for the reply. Yes, I included a photo in my original post. It’s definitely the run time of each schedule, not the total including soak cycles.

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Well, I’ve never seen Flex Daily change watering times unless there is an attribute in the zone changed, in your case, a MAJOR change.

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This just happened to me. Don’t understand how my schedule changed from ~1 hour to ~3 hours then to ~6 hours the next day. I have stopped all Weather Intelligence in my quest to outsmart the app. :0