3: 8 Zone Smart Sprinkler Controller (Simple Automated Scheduling + Local Weather Intelligence. Save Water w/Rain, Freeze & Wind Skip), App Enabled, Works w/Alexa, Fast & Easy Install

Unusable device in UAE based on our power standards. Avoid!!

Very easy to use, a lot of modofications available, really good device. The only problem if you don't have US socket, but you can solve it using another adaptor.

Where do I start? If you have a smart home integration setup -get this. If you want to save water - get this. If you want frustration free irrigation - get this. If you want a rebate - get this. So take $99.00 off from the price if you live in Central Texas because there's a rebate by LCRA, that's right just for purchasing and installing this product you get a $99 check from LCRA. Nothing to send in, just go to their website and fill out a form. This sprinkler system uses super accurate weather forecasts to determine rain hold days. You can set it up to be dynamic based on soil conditions or program a static schedule. You can start your sprinklers from your phone - from another state if you want. Tracks water usage, schedules, rain hold days and you can add other people from your household to your account so they can control it also. If you are like most people out there, your rain sensor doesn't work anyway. Ever run to the controller when it's raining to shut the sprinklers off? I have, I don't anymore, this thing is smart enough to activate rain hold based on the forecast. The forecast could be wrong you say.... well this is not your average forecast. The weather is provided from a network of 300,000 weather stations and other sources to provide hyper-local weather forecasts. It's never wrong. Installation: takes about 10 mins 5 mins to remove the old one 5 mins to install this one. It will take you another 10 mins to setup zones where you tell the application what type of irrigation, vegetation and soil composition you have. You can actually take pictures of your actual zones to put into the app. (see pic above). You can set it to notify you when zones start and stop, or tell it to leave you alone and just do it's thing. I have it integrated with Home Assist - An open source home automation server that ties my Alexa, smart-things, cameras, nest, august locks, network devices and now my lawn sprinkler system together. You can even tell Alexa - "water backyard" and presto - your sprinklers start running. The wiring is so easy a caveman could do it - M=Master pump, +/- 24volt power and one wire for each zone. I even used the screws that were in my old control panel. If you're on the fence about this purchase, pull the trigger. It will save you time, money and frustration over time and pay for itself. I can not speak to the durability of the product, however since you never actually touch the controller to operate, I suspect that it will last a long time. I would recommend this product 100% without reservation and they make an 8 and 16 zone version. I am reviewing the 8 zone version, however the 16 has all the same features. No jinky setups, everything was straight forward and easy, the software (phone app) is really intuitive and makes it easy to schedule and manually water. It will take care of the lawn for you. Set it, and forget it. No more running to shut off the sprinklers in the rain, no more brown grass because you forgot to set the schedule to run.

It's only been two weeks but I will give you my first impression and it's a good one. The reason I was looking for a new controller was my old Rainbird always had issues with connecting to my wifi. It was ok feature wise but felt it was falling short. This new Rachio was super easy to install. I loved that fact the bottom of the control was left open so you don't have to pull wires through any holes. Face is held on with magnets, another nice feature. Connecting wise, Are you kidding me! I blinked and I missed it. I thought for sure I did something wrong as it should not be this easy but no! I was wrong and it was connected and it really was that fast! The rest of the set up was just as easy. I'm a guy, who has time for instructions, not me!!!! And you truly do not need them. It walks you through everything step by step. I found everything easy to understand and to navigate through. It has some great features in my opinion zone wise. Asks about your area you live, asks what kind of watering you are doing (Grass, bushes etc) what type of irrigation heads you are using. What slope the area is on. It then gives you the option to name the zone and add a picture. All this is to optimise your watering. So cool! Timer wise, again super easy. I asked to end my watering cycles at sunrise and it figured out the start times. Because you entered all the information about the zone it automatically calculates how long each zone waters for. Keeping in mind you have full control over all of these settings if you wish. It watches your local forecast and it has only watered once so far. Its early spring here and it has been cloudy and sometimes raining. It is pausing my schedule automatically for me. Such A nice feature. I was a little hesitant on giving it full control but since you can easily go into the app and monitor your past watering cycles I feel comfortable knowing I can monitor it and see what is going on. Another very cool feature. It's not the cheapest unit on the market but due to all the features, the care free operation it's worth every penny. For anyone that has never used an App based watering system its pretty cool. My cell phone notified me someone was in my yard (Security camera system). When I looked someone was walking their HUGE wolf dog and it decided it didn't want to go any farther and layed down on my lawn. She was pulling and pulling. No way she was moving him. So I decided to help her out..... I opened up my Rachio app and flicked the zone on. Wanna see how fast a Wolf dog can move!!!! She literally said out loud laughing. THANK YOU WHOEVER YOU ARE !!!!! LOL!

Muy buen servicio, entrega muy rápido, buen precio

Great unit, easy to set up and works well. For those in Australia, if you buy from the AU Amazon site the package includes 240v Australian transformer which is nice.