Customer Ratings & Reviews

I purchased this to replace an old analog sprinkler control that was very hard to program. I hesitated on installing this because I was not sure that I would be able to get it to work. After looking at the box for over a month, last weekend I decided to do the install. I couldn't believe how easy it was to install. Then once it was hooked up to my wifi, it was even easier to program. I realize that the unit I installed was the 1st generation of the product, but it really does everything I need to do. I like that I receive text messages after the sprinklers have gone off, or alerting me to the sprinkler skipping a watering because of local rain. All in all, this is an easy to install and use sprinkler control.

Very nice, smart irrigation controller. This irrigation controller does a really nice job of providing a good UI on top of the mundane task of programming your irrigation controller. It also does a good job of monitoring rainfall and not watering when the lawn and flowers already have enough water. However, now that it is getting extremely hot in Northern California, I'm not so sure it's doing as good of a job watering when it's hot.

We tried this and couldn't be happier. At first I bought it just to have a way to control the sprinklers from my cell phone but it has turned into a far more useful tool. This unit is cloud based and receives weather updates including forecast. Your conventional rain sensor will only turn off your sprinklers after the rain has fallen and tend to be less effective with time. This unit will monitor that sensor as well as the weather forecast for your area. In the past two weeks I have received both text and emails letting me know that my sprinkler schedule is going to skip a day based on the weather forecast saying that rain fall would exceed my scheduled watering levels. If the rain forecast is determined to be wrong the unit will make up the difference once the rain event has passed. You also have the ability to override the schedule skip if you prefer. This unit will definitely save you water. My only feedback to Rachio would be to update the included documentation to mention that 5Ghz wireless is not possible. I attempted to connect 3 times before realizing it may only work on 2.4Ghz. Other than that love it.

I actually like and own this product. What I dislike is the overall attitude of the company and its staff. Numerous people have asked for and expected a very simple and trivial enhancement to be able to NOT turn on the pump for certain zones. As a software developer with my own software company, and more that 30 years of experience with automation and industrial process controls, their weak excuses that the "Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease" would indicate they have selective listening, and would much rather work on much more elaborate features with a high "Nifty" value rather than getting the basic feature set compete. This was such a basic request, it almost should have been treated as a oversight or even a bug. Maybe try Rain Machine instead.