Ok, everything is set up and works on my Rachio 3. One of my valves is chattering & leaking for the blue zone 2. The wire is yellow. What?! Yeah, it’s a nit. After the fix If I swap wires I have to reprogram the zones. It would be great if I could select my zone color to match my wiring.

+1 to this idea. I just set up my rachio 3 in place of old Rainbird v1 unit. Wires were smartly ordered by 1980’s installer in ROYGBIV order so super easy for this electronics nut to remember. Sadly cannot match the zone colors. It was the first thing I noticed and went looking to fix.

I agree, for them to only have 6 colors is very limiting. Why not have a dropdown like Word or Excel when changing font colors where there are multiple standard colors and you can even design your own color if you are so inclined. My landscape designer used 5 different highlighters on our plan to s…

Maybe I’m confused, but wasn’t aware that Rachio Zones had colors. Certainly Schedules have colors and having just a few doesn’t seem inconvenient. Zones have pictures, however, and you can do whatever you like with those. Like mine for Zone 3 that uses an orange wire: [IMG_0373] [IMG_0374]

You are correct schedules have colors, but not zones. I think I read the post before my initial reply incorrectly. Great idea to have the wire color, but mine repeat for every box that I have.

[image] JBTexas: Like mine for Zone 3 that uses an orange wire: Holy cow, that is brilliant!

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tmcgahey June 20, 2024, 3:42pm 7

Holy cow, that is brilliant!