Not exactly. Unless you have a rain sensor hooked up to a Rachio you need the Wi-Fi connectivity to obtain the actual rainfall for the soil model. Whether it turns on the irrigation is based partly on obtaining the forecast for future rain but the soil model, which needs the actual rain that has fallen, is what primarily drives the irrigation scheduling.
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Originally Posted by jrref
The wifi part is mainly for the controller to get the weather information so it knows not to water when there is a high probablity of rain coming. Other than that, you are right. I only use the remote when I'm checking my system.
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