Weather event driven scheduling (vineyard heat protection)

Ability to create a watering schedule that runs if:

  • Set weather criteria is forecasted (e.g. run schedule before 12pm if afternoon temp is forecasted above 100F)
  • Set weather criteria is met (e.g. run schedule at 5pm if daytime temp exceeded 100F).

Use case: I’m managing a home vineyard with Rachio (117 vines, 2 zones) and am using a fixed schedule every other day and quick runs (when I remember) to give the vineyard extra water before and after a really hot day. Unfortunately, we had a lot of 100F+ days and I didn’t remember on enough of them to avoid significant heat damage (raisins). Automating the extra watering that I’m doing today via quick runs into a weather based schedule would be 100x better than relying on my memory and would save me a lot of time on manual watering.

Have you considered using IFTTT?

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