Just for context, I’m a tech savvy user who is knees deep in the smart home tech world with my whole house automated via home assistant, node-red, and zigbee and zwave products. I absolutely love to tinker with tech and collect data on all aspects of my home purely for the thrill of being able to display things on a pretty graph. For someone like me, the Rachio app should be a walk in the park but it’s an over engineered, unnecessarily complicated interface that doesn’t give me the info I’m looking for not does it allow me to program things in an intuitive manner.
The OP is 100% correct. I should not have to do a cup test, use community provided spreadsheets or get a degree in agriculture just to program my Rachio. I have drip irrigation, I know exactly how many GPH each emitter puts out. I should be able to input this into the Rachio app and have it calculate for me how long to run each zone and how often.
The fact that Rachio does not do this is so disappointing and frustrating.