Rachio

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Permissions Required

This app may request the following permissions:

• read your contacts
• approximate location (network-based)
• precise location (GPS and network-based)
• directly call phone numbers
• read the contents of your USB storage
• modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
• take pictures and videos
• view Wi-Fi connections
• view network connections
• change network connectivity
• allow Wi-Fi Multicast reception
• connect and disconnect from Wi-Fi
• full network access
• run at startup
• control vibration
• prevent device from sleeping
• modify system settings
• receive data from Internet

Recent Reviews

Brook Di Sano

3.0★

mostly app and product are fine. But after trying, using, and talking with support the smart features aren't very smart. If they are right the weather source you can change only applies to the control not hose timer. So if you use both they may behave differently. also apparently the weather skip feature is not a rolling time, it only updated at midnight. so if you are watching at 1150p and it schedule to rain at 1205a, it won't skip. hope that's not really the case. still trying to adjust.

Gene Dolan

5.0★

I love being able to test my system while walking around my property and being able to stop & start it from my phone to make adjustments. As well as being tied into my local weather to stop or run depending on my actual weather. Also being able to run the system even when you aren't home, for example if you're traveling and you see your home area may need more watering, you can activate your system from anywhere!

Ethan Parker

4.0★

Overall, an excellent app and controller. The biggest problem with my 3e is, if the controller goes offline for several days, it stops watering, even though it's supposed to keep running the last saved schedule. This is made worse because, if the controller is connected to a wifi network with both the 2.4G and 5G wifi bands enabled on the same SSID, the controller can often have trouble selecting which band to use causing it to go offline until you reboot it. I would still buy it again.

Javier Monrové

1.0★

Should've stayed with my old "dumb" controller. Rachio has had ZERO meaningful improvements over the years, now they add some basic functionality under a $30 unlock barrier? once my device stops working I'm done with them. I've stopped recommending it to anyone that asks. If you're in a hot climate, forget about this "smart" irrigation controller, it's not smart, only good thing is that you can manage stuff from your phone instead of having to walk to the controller.

Matthew Naylor

2.0★

You asked how I'm liking the app while in the middle of checking a zone without letting me skip: If the predicted rain amount is less than an a quarter of what the irrigation is scheduled to water, don't skip the watering. I live in TX. August is the hottest month of the year. Despite this, Rachio decided to do a seasonal shift, reducing the amount of water going into August. When selecting a popular nozzle, like the hunter MP rotator, you should know the rate is 0.4 in an hour, not 0.8.

Bill

2.0★

Used for a couple seasons now. Love the idea of a system tracking the weather to adjust watering patterns. It is way to conservative however, to the point where my grass will dry out due to the amount of times the watering schedule is skipped because of a small "chance" of rain. Now Rachio is adding additional subscriptions to track heatwaves for an additional $30 which is highly annoying. This should be included as it is advertised that Rachio tracks weather to adjust watering patterns.