[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Gpsma

How do you “waste” water?

Well can waste money letting run down street drains for 30 mins each station.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by vintageogauge

What's to save it's re-claimed waste water and that is why it was re-claimed.

Money if letting run down street drain with double charge.

[midiwiz]

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.

Seriously????? WHO CARES!

[ChicagoNative]

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.

Start a rain watchers club and get that number up to 3001!

[jimdecastro]

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.

What brand goes in in five minutes? Everybody I know who bought one says they loved theirs, but the installation was a bear. I had a Hunter in New York so when I got here, I was happy. But the Wi-Fi adapter does not work for many people. Including me.

[RAHBM]

I am retired. Toooo much unwanted Tech Info for me!

[La lamy]

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.

Totally agree. Better yet, try turning off your sprinkler system altogether. Mine has been off for years and the lawn is fine. It's Florida, things grow easily!!!

[Mrmean58]

Originally Posted by asianthree

It’s probably hard to except the concept, that TV is not just your village. We definitely didn’t get the 2.5” that rained on you. I have seen it rain across the prairie but not at our house.
Maybe you could stick with your small area, have a neighbor meeting, about helping your neighbors, instead of criticizing.

You could offer to switch their controller to a smart one. Which you posted is only 5 minutes to change. You could save the water usage for your neighbors. Then could educate on use, and do follow up monthly on how their system works. Because not everyone is going to understand the concept.

We have a smart irrigation system, that ran last week, my pool needs a top off, could you just send down the clouds, to take care of that? Oh and a rainbow would be a nice ending

Oh sure. Let's confuse the issue with some facts.

[frayedends]

Originally Posted by jimdecastro

What brand goes in in five minutes? Everybody I know who bought one says they loved theirs, but the installation was a bear. I had a Hunter in New York so when I got here, I was happy. But the Wi-Fi adapter does not work for many people. Including me.

I'm sure the 5 minutes was an exaggeration. My Rachio took almost 10 minutes to install and another 10 to program.

[Sunrise Beach]

We just overseeded our lawn with particular interest in some bare spots. We have been instructed to keep the seed moist until germination so need to water more frequently.

[banjobob]

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.

I suppose most of us are not that concerned
if rain and sprinklers combine to water.

[TheWatcher]

Originally Posted by Miboater

If you have a Rachio controller there is a setting to change the weather source. If you go into settings, controller settings, weather source, select station and then personal. You will see a list of Rachio users that have their own backyard weather stations and you should see a list of weather stations that are in your area and how far away they are located. I am connected to one that is 0.1 mile away but there are five as close as 0.5 miles away. I find this a lot more accurate and they also have rain gauges that you can see if you are wondering how much rain we received. It works well being north for my last summer before being full time this September.

The personal weather station that works with the Rachio is the Tempest unit:

Tempest Weather System

You can then set your Rachio to suspend irrigation depending on the amount of actual rainfall at the weather station on your property.

Get it if you are a gadget junkie or just connect to a nearby unit. Amazon Prime days coming up...

There are personal weather stations all over TV. Just look at Weather Undergound.

Here is my station:

Tempest

[Shipping up to Boston]

Originally Posted by frayedends

I'm sure the 5 minutes was an exaggeration. My Rachio took almost 10 minutes to install and another 10 to program.

Where do you go to get that 20 minutes of your life back!

[Altavia]

Originally Posted by TheWatcher

The personal weather station that works with the Rachio is the Tempest unit:

Tempest Weather System

You can then set your Rachio to suspend irrigation depending on the amount of actual rainfall at the weather station on your property.

Get it if you are a gadget junkie or just connect to a nearby unit. Amazon Prime days coming up...

There are personal weather stations all over TV. Just look at Weather Undergound.

Here is my station:

Tempest

How accurate have your rainfall measurements been?

[capecoralbill]

Originally Posted by frayedends

The rain sensors with the leather pads inside are useless. I’ve had 2 homes with those and they never worked.

my house is 24 years old, my Hunter with the leather pads rain sensor it's still working.
I have Xfinity Wi-Fi at my house, and it does not reach all the way into the garage, so there's that.