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Old 07-03-2024, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by rsmurano View Post
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.
TV has programs to educate us and preach about conserving water, yet (without spending $$ for additional systems) I gave to waste so much water waiting for hot water for every shower, no matter what time of year. I'm just glad I'm not in AZ where water is a scarce commodity.