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Originally Posted by rsmurano
What a waste of water. Every house should be using a smart sprinkler controller and not the dumb Hunter controllers they put in each house.
For $60, you can swap out the hunter controller in 5 mins, install the new smart controller, and then take 15-30 mins programming your new smart controller.
While you are programming your new smart controller, you can point it to the many homes that have personal weather stations near you to get the most reliable data for the controller to use when calculating when it should run the sprinklers and for how long.
Many other benefits too, like turning on a station from your phone from anywhere in the world or inside your house. No more running to the garage to start and stop a station.
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The external rain sensors typically last about 5 years or so and most have no idea if it's working or not or even what and where the rain sensor is. This is why you see people watering after we have significant rain. It's because their rain sensor has failed.
The smart controllers do a good job but the weather forcast here in Florida is so random that I have my external rain sensor connected to my Rachio. This makes sure that if we do get 1/4 inch of rain or more and the forecast shows none that the Rachio knows and doesn't water.