After reading all these responses I can't believe all the manual work people are doing to irregate their lawns.
The easiest way to "set it and forget it" is to get a Rachio smart controller and replace your hard wired rain sensor with a new one. You can get the Orbit one from Lowes or Amazon.
The reason for Rachio is they have a feature where you can sync your controller to a weather station near your house and use that to determine how much rain you actually got. You would be surprised just how many local weather stations set up by homeowners there are here in the Villages.
I'm sure other smart controllers have a similar function but once you set this all up you don't have to be aware of how much rain you are getting, just let the Rachio take care of everything. You will have to check the Rachio from time to time to make sure it's doing everything correctly but they recently changed there rain anticipating algorithm and it works very well.
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