[IMG_2225] We had 1.55” of rain here in the last 75 days. Forecast constantly promises rain tomorrow, or next hour, only for that to keep being pushed back as time elapses. The result is I am battling Rachio to water my lawn. It won’t water it for the next two weeks. Using the Empty feature makes …

Dude, Give up on the smart watering and just use a fixed schedule that you update as needed. You’ll go crazy otherwise. I did.

Sorry, I didn’t look at the category your post was started in - Flex Daily. My Flex Daily uses the “bucket”. My zones are set to 50% depletion. When I look at the zones page, each zone has a soil moisture %. My 5 yard zones are currently showing 4% (which isn’t actually 4%, it is 4% before getti…

Ok, now we’re speaking the same language :smiley: Yes, the actual precipitation + remaining predicted precipitation for today is added to the “bucket” in the precipitation row. If the result at the end of the day (balance + irrigation + precipitation - evapotranspiration) is high enough, watering i…

If you can only water 3 days a week, that isn’t ideal for using Flex Daily. Flex Daily works best when it can water whenever it calculates that it needs to. Here is where I’d start. Ensure your Rachio is looking at your weather station. Delete all of your schedules and create 1 Flex Daily with a…

Sure, It is using my Tempest. Same happens with national weather (it also suggests rain is coming :D) I can try that, sure - what’s different this week is that chance of precipitation is in the 50-70%, as opposed to 20% for the last week, so I hope I’m not out of time. Actually, I hope it damn rai…

Not looking promising so far, but I have to let it run for a few days. Still says next watering day is June 20th. Forecast is rain every day, which is why June 20th. [IMG_2237] [IMG_2238]

the forecast as seen by Rachio: [IMG_2239] [IMG_2240] [IMG_2241]

How about a screenshot of your zone page showing all the zones & info? I’m up in central Florida. My schedule has tomorrow & Sunday as watering days and then next is the 19th. Chance of rain between 10% and 70% on each day in-between. Documented here to see how it changes over the next week.

They are showing 110% because I manually ran them, the grass is wilting… Let me go ahead and Empty the five zones [IMG_2242]

If I empty the zones, it shows as if it will water tomorrow morning - however, come morning, it won’t. At 1am when it checks for forecast and sees “rain coming” it simply pushes back the watering, happened two nights already.

I have a theory. The problem may come from the fact that the moisture graph is capped at 0%-110%. In all reality, 0% really means 50% with my allowed depletion of 50%. The moisture level can actually go below 0%. If it did, the sum of precipitation+forecast+irrigation-evapotranspiration would provid…

Weather Forecast lying means dead grass

Schedules & Zones Flex Daily

ady624 June 7, 2024, 5:49pm 16

the forecast as seen by Rachio: