Ok, so I get the spirit behind the Wind Skip and I’m all for not having precious water just blown into the street or air. However, if it’s windy (unless it’s ALSO rainy and/or cooler) then plants/soil are going to dry out faster and need MORE water.
Might I humbly suggest the concept of “Wind Delay” - i.e., the same water gets delivered as it should, it just gets postponed to a more favorable time.
If this is how it works already, then well done…just at least change the name to be more descriptive and intuitive.
Best, J
P.S. - in the case of a prolonged delay into the next day, I’m pretty certain that any municipality with watering restrictions would cut some slack if it can be demonstrated that the same water was used, but to better effect
Nope. It is a skip. Depending on what type of schedule you have, will dictate when it will “resume”. Fixed schedule will pick back up on the next scheduled watering date, Flex Daily will more than likely run the following day, assuming no rain…
If you are utilizing a Flex Daily Schedule, then Rachio will most likely water the next day after a Wind Skip, as the soil moisture will continue to drop.
Flex daily isn’t reasonable if you live in an area with restrictions. I am allowed to water the lawn on two specific days a week or risk getting fined.
I agree, I have a problem in that I miss watering in the morning and have to come back to water manually in the late afternoon. My municipality doesn’t give any slack – if you water on a different day, you get fined.
First off don’t get me started on the stupidity of thing water restrictions to only water on certain days and for everyone to water in the same two days.
Second you can still use flex daily, you just set it to only be able to water on those two days. I’ve always restricted it from water the night/morning the yard gets mowed…. It won’t be quite as effective as if it can water any day but it will still be effective.
I’d also call your council man and have a discussion with him about limiting times to water each week to twice rather than specific days and to exempt smart controllers even….
Maybe I am assuming the wrong thing, but don’t you mean watering will pick up on the next “scheduled” watering day? My watering days are required to be Wed, Fri, and Sun. I am using the Flex daily schedule as you recommended (works great). Thus, am I assuming correctly that if watering is skipped on Wed due to wind, that the next cycle will be on Fri (as scheduled) instead of the next day as you said? If it is on the next day, then my water utility isn’t going to like that.
While I am on the topic, I really wish the controller would allow the wind feature to be set up by ZONE instead of for all zones on the controller. My reason is that I would not want watering to stop for a drip line zone since the wind isn’t going to blow away any water from those drippers.
Hmmm, perhaps our situations are somehow different. I have the same type day restrictions and the flex daily schedule is working fine for me. Am I misunderstanding something? Can you explain why you think it is unreasonable?
I also see that some folks may think it is stupid to have restrictions for some days, yet after taking a tour of the water utility company, I can see why they do it and actually quite smart: not stupid at all. YET I am just talking about where I live it makes great sense. Perhaps in other areas it is not effective. Just speaking for ourselves.
Yes, it will resume on your next watering cycle, whenever that is.
Set your drip on one schedule, and your grass on another. Allow wind skips on the grass zones, and deselect it on the drip zones. I have wind and freeze skip off on my drip zones, because it frankly doesn’t affect those schedules.
