Rachio sprinkler controller

I can’t speak for anything other than Rachio, but I’ve had mine since 2016 and haven’t had one moment’s problem with it. Proprietary or not, it is one is the most reliable, carefree, dependable gadgets I’ve ever owned.

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Stable Any luton Caseta Envisalink (patches into the alarm system) Rachio sprinkler system Any Hue device (98% of the time) ismartgate pro Middle of the road Kasa devices (95% of the time) Sonos (97% of the time.. some drops) Unstable Any apple product Nest mini and nest audio Heos devices Most TVs: Sony, LG, Roku, etc.

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I use Rachio controller. Great even without HA. Flexible. Also has a HASS plugin. I use ecowitt sensors, and have it setup so that if the soil moisture rises above certain % (that differs between seasons) it enables or disables the Rachio channel by channel.

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The problem When using the Rachio Actions "rachio.start_watering" or "rachio.start_multiple_zone_schedule" the individual switch states are not being reflected by the action call. As an example when I tell Zone 1 to start watering by using the call below, "switch.zone_1" does not show as "on" unless I reload the integration. `action: rachio.start_watering target: entity_id: switch.zone_1 data: duration: 5` This is confusing when trying to integrate these switches into a dashboard interface. I know I can add additional code to circumvent this inability but I shouldn't have to. When I turn …

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