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Rachio WiFi Smart Lawn Sprinkler Controller, 16-Zone 2nd Generation, Alexa and Apple HomeKit Compatible with Rain, Freeze and Wind Skip

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  • MOST 5-STAR RATINGS. Amazon’s most- and highest-rated WiFi sprinkler controller is the Rachio Generation 2 Smart Sprinkler Controller.
  • UNBEATABLE USABILITY. Download the Rachio app to care for your lawn remotely with your smartphone, tablet or laptop, use a connected home system or run zones directly from the controller itself. Wifi connection is 2.4 GHz required. Supports dedicated 2.4GHz and dual-band networks. Cannot operate on 5 GHz only networks. Compatible with master valve, pump relay, or indexing valve
  • ADAPTS TO YOUR LAWN. Set your own schedules or input details like plant type and sun exposure to let Rachio automatically water your lawn with exactly what it needs to thrive, and not a drop more.
  • ONLY WITH RACHIO - RAIN AND WIND SKIPS. Rachio Weather Intelligence uses comprehensive weather data to automatically adjust your irrigation schedule based on the latest local forecasts.
  • SAVE WATER, SAVE MONEY. Reduce your water bill by up to 50% while keeping your garden healthy. EPA WaterSense certified - eligible for utility rebates of up to 100% off (check your local water provider).
  • MOST-CONNECTED CONTROLLER. Works with top smart-home platforms, including Amazon Alexa and Google Home - more than any other smart sprinkler controller.
  • EASY INSTALLATION. Install it yourself - no special tools or expertise required. Operating temperature: -4°F to 140°F

Customer ratings by feature

Smart Features
4.5 4.5
WiFi signal
4.5 4.5
User interface
4.4 4.4
Alexa integration
4.4 4.4

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Take control of your watering.
More control. More savings. A Smart Sprinkler Controller you can control from anywhere.
Easy to install and customized to your yard.

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The Rachio Generation 2 Smart Sprinkler Controller automatically creates watering schedules that lower your water bill and ensure a beautiful yard, while the mobile app lets you manage your sprinkler system from anywhere. Transformer Power Input - 120V AC / 60Hz

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4.6 out of 5 stars
4.6 out of 5
1,357 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the ease of installation using the Rachio Smart Irrigation System. They mention that the setup is intuitive and quick, and the wiring is pretty straight forward. They also appreciate the performance, adjustability, and control of the system. They say that it operates well, makes changes to your watering schedule, and can set separate watering times for different zones based on soil, plant, and weather. They like that the app allows them to control everything from their phone, PC, tablet, and so on. Customers also appreciate that the system uses water more efficiently, and that the weather forecasting feature is a big plus.

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534 customers mention508 positive26 negative

Customers find the installation of the outdoor living product to be easy. They mention that the product is easy to navigate, set up zones is intuitive and quick, and the wiring is pretty straight forward. They appreciate the amount of detail on set up, the well written instructions, and that it's easy to test and verify it'll work.

"...very neatly into zones and schedules that makes configuring and tweaking the system easy once you get the hang of it...." Read more

"...The application is straightforward-- you enter the type of plants that are in each zone-- the app provides appropriate choices including several..." Read more

"...slope, soil type... pretty simple...." Read more

"You can use the easy settings to set-up and it will create a great schedule for your lawn, trees, garden, pots and raised bed...." Read more

358 customers mention322 positive36 negative

Customers like the performance of the outdoor living product. They say it operates well, has satisfactory results, and performs flawlessly. Some customers say they were satisfied with the performance within days. Overall, most are happy with their purchase and recommend it to others.

"...I have chosen to use the defaults in most cases and the results have been satisfactory...." Read more

"...Bottom line: Advanced, internet-connected technology that works. The more different things you want to do, the more you will like it...." Read more

"...My controller is working as expected. I was curious how the algorithm results would match my refined Rainbird settings howled after 16 years...." Read more

"...Once I was able to install it, it has worked very well.The ad said 30 minutes to install. That may be true for an experienced installer...." Read more

155 customers mention152 positive3 negative

Customers like the adjustability of the outdoor living product. They mention that it can anticipate and make changes to your watering schedule, set separate schedules for different zones based on soil, plant, and weather conditions. They also appreciate that the program divides the watering time and can set it up to automatically skip watering if you get rain. Customers say the product is easy to install and set up your zone schedules. They appreciate the predicted run schedule for the next two weeks and the automatic setting really is incredible.

"...even with weather information from the NWS, it is still a very good irrigation timer and will do a great job." Read more

"...Other features that seem to just make sense are the cycle approach to watering and the newly added manual controls on the Rachio Iro...." Read more

"You can use the easy settings to set-up and it will create a great schedule for your lawn, trees, garden, pots and raised bed...." Read more

"...Armed with this info I have noticed how variable the watering now is and love how Rachio only waters the zones that need it - so now even the nights..." Read more

146 customers mention140 positive6 negative

Customers are satisfied with the control of the product. They mention that it's awesome to be able to remotely control their irrigation zones, and that the app allows them to have complete control and remote monitoring capability. They also love the ability to manage the system on the fly when needed. The Raschio Smart Sprinkler Controller is smart and provides a great deal of water usage data.

"...You can have multiple controllers in multiple locations and even provide access to them for your gardener to control via his or her smartphone app...." Read more

"...I also love how I have the ability to manage the system on the fly when needed...." Read more

"...This is a great feature for picking the best spray heads for a zone and even for adjusting the flow/spread per nozzle.-..." Read more

"...The downloaded apps are easy to understand and there is a web based interface you can use in lieu of a Windows App...." Read more

120 customers mention101 positive19 negative

Customers like the water saving features of the product. For example, they mention it keeps their yard perfectly hydrated, uses water more efficiently, and minimizes oversaturation and runoff. That said, some say they experience about a 25% savings in water usage.

"...many times the cost of the device in water bills, while keeping my grass and plants healthy...." Read more

"...This minimizes oversaturation and runoff, allowing the water that you are spraying to soak in, using less total water for the same impact...." Read more

"...(Optional): If you want extremely accurate watering and savings with water conservation, you can set things up using the advanced settings but you..." Read more

"...with a deep soaking and the Rachio unit is so smart, it can break up the long soaking period into many cycles to eliminate as much water runoff as..." Read more

117 customers mention89 positive28 negative

Customers like the ease of use of the outdoor living product. They say the app is intuitive and simple to configure. They also say the improvements made the app even better. Customers say the online monitoring and programming capability is fantastic. They mention that the app allows them to take pictures and customize the name of each station. They can also use the app to connect remotely and operate the product.

"...The Rachio is very intuitive, and has great online support (company execs respond to many of the reviews & questions here on Amazon.)..." Read more

"...There are quite a few settings in the app to play with and the app is really quite good...." Read more

"...ingenious and invaluable piece of this system is the ability to run zones manually from the app...." Read more

"...The also include a newish calculator to help you - but it is not as straight forward as you might hope - and we are still waiting for help to..." Read more

99 customers mention69 positive30 negative

Customers are mixed about the connectivity of the product. Some mention that they have no problems connecting to WiFi, while others say that it wouldn't connect and register. The WiFi connection is the easiest of any connected device they've installed to date. However, some customers report issues with the start up of this unit as it wouldn’t connect to the WiFi and register, and the signal was not strong enough to reach the basement.

"...I had no issue at all with wifi connection. It worked on the first try...." Read more

"...I have never had any issues with wireless connectivity, or a failure of the unit since day 1...." Read more

"...The Rachio will not connect to these weather stations...." Read more

"...What makes the system innovative is that the hardware links to your router via WiFi which makes communication reliable...." Read more

96 customers mention93 positive3 negative

Customers are satisfied with the appearance of the product. They mention that the Rachio app is well designed and provides complete control with some pretty cool features. They also appreciate the elegant simplicity of the hardware. Overall, customers are impressed with the product's appearance and functionality.

"...The app (and browser version) is modern in its thorough but simple approach and even allows you to take photos of each zone to make it easy to..." Read more

"...The Android interface is quite good, easy to use and is fully functional...." Read more

"...Still a very cool system - and no-brainer upgrade from an older dumb-controller - just keep in mind that auto watering feature may not work for..." Read more

"...Pretty cool. I've gone in and tweaked a few settings after a couple weeks of monitoring its progress...." Read more

It really does save a lot of water!
5 Stars
It really does save a lot of water!
This really does save water. And it does what you program it to do. This is all the more important because I am in South East Florida and we water 52 weeks a year down here.First, things to consider:If you expect to just connect the low voltage wires to your sprinkler valves to this device, plug in the AC power unit, spend a few minutes setting up the WiFi, zones and schedules (which is easy to do), and be done with it you will probably be unhappy. I have spent many hours tweaking the settings on this device, but for me it is worth spending the time to make this thing really work.Also, it does rely on Internet access, but if your Internet goes down, I have read it will continue to run the "last saved schedule", but I have not tested that. The Rachio server(s) run on Amazon's AWS servers so they should be reliable.Be sure you have a decent WiFi signal at the location you intend to install the controller.If you install outdoors, be sure and purchase the outdoor enclosure. When using the outdoor enclosure, you do not use the cover that comes with the controller. Only use the cover that comes with the controller for indoor installations.Last, if Rachio goes out of business, and the server(s) are no longer functional, the Rachio controller will be of no use. However, should that ever happen, I know I will have saved many times the cost of the Rachio device in water bills, and really do not find that a concern.Now on to the benefits of using this controller.......Coming from another WiFi controller that kept making changes to my schedules on its own (it would add extra start times, running the same schedule twice, three times, even four times in one day), I find the Rachio is highly advanced.Rachio knows the past rainfall and looks ahead at the weather and so far has not been wrong. So it knows the exact amount of rain that has fallen, which is much more accurate than those rain sensors. I could never get mine to work very well, even after a torrential rain, the rain sensor would dry out after about 12 hours, and often my system would run even though the ground was saturated. This has completely eliminated the system running when it is not necessary.The way this works is the Rachio can be configured to look at the closest weather station. In my case I have had a Davis Vantage Vue weather station at my house since 2011, and it was not too complicated to make it report to pwsweather which once done became a weather station that was on the list of stations available to my Rachio (see attached photo). (This weather station is on the roof of my house, but I have purposely set its location slightly off to protect the anonymity of my house.)I am told by Rachio that besides the information reported by my weather station, it uses 30 years of weather history in making the forecasts it uses to determine if it should run a schedule or not.Another thing I like is that the Rachio can be configured to skip a schedule if it is too windy. In the past I have seen my water just blown away and wasted when it is too windy to water.Besides the above features, the Rachio allows configuration of each zone for the type of plants or grass, spray head type, soil type, sun exposure, slope, and other details, and can be set for the Rachio to completely determine when it should water a zone.You can set the usual schedule to water for a certain length of time on certain days, and the Rachio will do that, and will skip if you have had rain or high winds.Or you can use what Rachio calls Flex Daily Schedules, which will only water once Rachio determines it is necessary to do this by calculating the moisture remaining in the ground. It does this by knowing the type of soil, plant type root depth, sprinkler head type, sun exposure, temperature, evaporation, rainfall, and probably several other things, and it determines when a zone should water. Depending on all this, different zones can run on different days.At this time I have a lot of new sod and a new a new podocarpus hedge that is watered with a drip line that need more frequent watering than established landscape and am running fixed schedules on the 4 zones that water these areas -- that is schedules that run my zones at specific times on specific days. But I am allowing the Rachio to skip these schedules due to rain or wind.The rest of my zones are being watered with the Flex Daily schedule. Rachio knows my rainfall, irrigation, evaporation, and based on all the attributes I mentioned above calculates when a zone should run.For fixed schedules Rachio also looks 7 days in the past at the actual rainfall, and 7 days into the future for forecast rain, then takes into consideration the soil type, sun exposure, vegetation type, temperature, and determines if there is enough water in the soil to justify skipping a schedule. This is called a "saturation skip". It can take some work to properly configure a system to have the correct soil types, and other data that the system needs to correctly make these calculations and saturation skip can be turned off if you do not have the necessary data, such as you are too far from a weather station for this to work correctly, but if the data is available this can also save a considerable amount of water.For Flex Daily Schedules, Rachio basically relies on similar information to keep track of how much water is in the soil and used that information alone to determine when a zone should water.It does other good things to. One thing I like is it has a feature called "Smart Cycle" which will pause the watering of a zone after so long (depending on a number of factors such as soil type) to allow the water to soak in, then after the pause resume watering that zone.Besides the iPhone app, you can access your Rachio from your PC or Mac using a browser. In my case, I use Safari on my iMac when I am in my home office. And once you poke around the various screens, Rachio has organized everything very neatly into zones and schedules that makes configuring and tweaking the system easy once you get the hang of it. It also contains help screens which go into considerable depth explaining how each setting works. The app (and browser version) is modern in its thorough but simple approach and even allows you to take photos of each zone to make it easy to remember which zone controls which area of your yard.All in all I highly recommend Rachio and believe it will save many times the cost of the device in water bills, while keeping my grass and plants healthy. Obviously, the more accurate the weather data that Rachio has available to it, the better it will work at saving water, and having your own personal weather station (accurately calibrated and properly installed) is the ultimate way to do this. But even with weather information from the NWS, it is still a very good irrigation timer and will do a great job.
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5.0 out of 5 stars It really does save a lot of water!
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2018
This really does save water. And it does what you program it to do. This is all the more important because I am in South East Florida and we water 52 weeks a year down here.

First, things to consider:

If you expect to just connect the low voltage wires to your sprinkler valves to this device, plug in the AC power unit, spend a few minutes setting up the WiFi, zones and schedules (which is easy to do), and be done with it you will probably be unhappy. I have spent many hours tweaking the settings on this device, but for me it is worth spending the time to make this thing really work.

Also, it does rely on Internet access, but if your Internet goes down, I have read it will continue to run the "last saved schedule", but I have not tested that. The Rachio server(s) run on Amazon's AWS servers so they should be reliable.

Be sure you have a decent WiFi signal at the location you intend to install the controller.

If you install outdoors, be sure and purchase the outdoor enclosure. When using the outdoor enclosure, you do not use the cover that comes with the controller. Only use the cover that comes with the controller for indoor installations.

Last, if Rachio goes out of business, and the server(s) are no longer functional, the Rachio controller will be of no use. However, should that ever happen, I know I will have saved many times the cost of the Rachio device in water bills, and really do not find that a concern.

Now on to the benefits of using this controller.......

Coming from another WiFi controller that kept making changes to my schedules on its own (it would add extra start times, running the same schedule twice, three times, even four times in one day), I find the Rachio is highly advanced.

Rachio knows the past rainfall and looks ahead at the weather and so far has not been wrong. So it knows the exact amount of rain that has fallen, which is much more accurate than those rain sensors. I could never get mine to work very well, even after a torrential rain, the rain sensor would dry out after about 12 hours, and often my system would run even though the ground was saturated. This has completely eliminated the system running when it is not necessary.

The way this works is the Rachio can be configured to look at the closest weather station. In my case I have had a Davis Vantage Vue weather station at my house since 2011, and it was not too complicated to make it report to pwsweather which once done became a weather station that was on the list of stations available to my Rachio (see attached photo). (This weather station is on the roof of my house, but I have purposely set its location slightly off to protect the anonymity of my house.)

I am told by Rachio that besides the information reported by my weather station, it uses 30 years of weather history in making the forecasts it uses to determine if it should run a schedule or not.

Another thing I like is that the Rachio can be configured to skip a schedule if it is too windy. In the past I have seen my water just blown away and wasted when it is too windy to water.

Besides the above features, the Rachio allows configuration of each zone for the type of plants or grass, spray head type, soil type, sun exposure, slope, and other details, and can be set for the Rachio to completely determine when it should water a zone.

You can set the usual schedule to water for a certain length of time on certain days, and the Rachio will do that, and will skip if you have had rain or high winds.

Or you can use what Rachio calls Flex Daily Schedules, which will only water once Rachio determines it is necessary to do this by calculating the moisture remaining in the ground. It does this by knowing the type of soil, plant type root depth, sprinkler head type, sun exposure, temperature, evaporation, rainfall, and probably several other things, and it determines when a zone should water. Depending on all this, different zones can run on different days.

At this time I have a lot of new sod and a new a new podocarpus hedge that is watered with a drip line that need more frequent watering than established landscape and am running fixed schedules on the 4 zones that water these areas -- that is schedules that run my zones at specific times on specific days. But I am allowing the Rachio to skip these schedules due to rain or wind.

The rest of my zones are being watered with the Flex Daily schedule. Rachio knows my rainfall, irrigation, evaporation, and based on all the attributes I mentioned above calculates when a zone should run.

For fixed schedules Rachio also looks 7 days in the past at the actual rainfall, and 7 days into the future for forecast rain, then takes into consideration the soil type, sun exposure, vegetation type, temperature, and determines if there is enough water in the soil to justify skipping a schedule. This is called a "saturation skip". It can take some work to properly configure a system to have the correct soil types, and other data that the system needs to correctly make these calculations and saturation skip can be turned off if you do not have the necessary data, such as you are too far from a weather station for this to work correctly, but if the data is available this can also save a considerable amount of water.

For Flex Daily Schedules, Rachio basically relies on similar information to keep track of how much water is in the soil and used that information alone to determine when a zone should water.

It does other good things to. One thing I like is it has a feature called "Smart Cycle" which will pause the watering of a zone after so long (depending on a number of factors such as soil type) to allow the water to soak in, then after the pause resume watering that zone.

Besides the iPhone app, you can access your Rachio from your PC or Mac using a browser. In my case, I use Safari on my iMac when I am in my home office. And once you poke around the various screens, Rachio has organized everything very neatly into zones and schedules that makes configuring and tweaking the system easy once you get the hang of it. It also contains help screens which go into considerable depth explaining how each setting works. The app (and browser version) is modern in its thorough but simple approach and even allows you to take photos of each zone to make it easy to remember which zone controls which area of your yard.

All in all I highly recommend Rachio and believe it will save many times the cost of the device in water bills, while keeping my grass and plants healthy. Obviously, the more accurate the weather data that Rachio has available to it, the better it will work at saving water, and having your own personal weather station (accurately calibrated and properly installed) is the ultimate way to do this. But even with weather information from the NWS, it is still a very good irrigation timer and will do a great job.
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