I know it doesn’t tie into ST, but I also know this community is into things like this so thought I would ask anyway. Wasn’t sure the best place to post this. I have a Skydrop and have had it for 2 years. It has done a decent job (not terribly thrilled though) until this year. I now find it isn’t tr…

Happy with my Ranchio on my vegetable gardens…I have so many vegetables I cannot eat them all. Drip irrigation on everything so a drop of water is not wasted. I do wish I could be more specific about what kind of vegetables are in the garden but it works great as it is.

I have ST integration with Rachio and I never used it, actually Rachio works pretty well by itself. I used Blossom and Lono smart watering controllers but Rachio won the battle.

It has weather integration right? Looking at the Wirecutter review it notes you can’t pick your own station right? Sounds like with the Rachio you can. Thinking about it, I think that may be important for me as I think my house gets some substantially different weather than the north half of town. W…

Thanks for the offer. Doing my research on options and want to sort that out before I grab a discount as I imagine they are not unlimited. When I email, does it have to be from the address I will register with? I have an account I use for personal stuff and one I use for online account type stuff.

For what it’s worth, I use a RainMachine and I’ve been really happy with it. I like that it can be controlled on device for startup/shutdown. The web ui is quite good and it supports personal weather stations on Weather Underground. I don’t have it integrated with ST because I can’t think of a reas…

When you say can control Startup/Shutdown, you don’t mean like seasonal right? You just mean halt/resume all scheduling right? Which one are you using? I assume the 12 or 16 zone?

[image] Dianoga: what it’s worth, I use a RainMachine I used the first version and it worked ok. I switched to Rachio for one thing only. RainMachine v2 came out with cloud based features that they refused to make available to v1 users. Rachio is on v3 and v1 customers still get the same lov…

I spent some time over on the Rachio forums and I think I am sold. The atmosphere and exchanges between users seem very similar to ST, and there is a lot of Staff interaction (I assume Franz there is the same as here), both of which are a HUGE plus in my book. I think I am looking at the Gen 2 from …

[image] farlicimo: Gen 2 controls seems sufficient There is one major difference in v3 worth considering. And that is, the 5ghz band. It’s not available on previous models. [image] Will Gen 2 allow a dual-band router? Archive …

[image] farlicimo: When you say can control Startup/Shutdown, you don’t mean like seasonal right You can control everything from on the device, but I usually use the web UI. The on device control is super useful for the seasonal startup and shutdown as we have a company do that for us (I know…

Skydrop, time to move on?

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Terminal (Mike) February 19, 2020, 3:29pm 27

You should check out this thread. Sounds like it is basically a dead product.

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Skydrop Going Subscription Connected Things iotindustry	45	10787	October 16, 2019
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Rachio Vs. Rain Machine Devices & Integrations	25	19744	August 31, 2017
[OBSOLETE] Rachio Manager Devices & Integrations irrigation , dth_irrigation	85	9111	November 9, 2022

Skydrop, time to move on?

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