Changing From Fixed to Flex Daily

post by mckinneydeb on Aug 11, 2022

Hi there! I’m a brand new user. I’ve only had the system for 2 days! When I set the system up yesterday, I set my Flower Beds (2 Zones) to fixed schedule to water every day. The beds are only about 2 weeks old, new plantings. Both zones are Drip.

Today, my city notified me that my Watering Exemption Certificate is being suspended due to the severe drought here in Texas. I went to my Schedule to change from Fixed to Flex Daily and I can’t change it. Both Flex Monthly and Flex Daily are “grayed out”.

I’ve done some searches here, but I can’t see anything pertaining to my issue,

Help!

post by Lars on Aug 12, 2022

Just create a new flex schedule with those zones and delete the fixed one.

post by mckinneydeb on Aug 12, 2022

Now why didn’t I think of that? Thank you.

post by JBTexas on Aug 13, 2022

You can keep the fixed schedule if you wish - just disable it. You can also have more than one flex daily schedule as long as they’re not configured with ANY conflicts (I have “half the zones” alternate day flexes - in Texas).

post by Sammy2 on Mar 2, 2023

I’ve often wondered why Rachio chose to make this the only way to change it. It’s been like this for all the years I’ve used Rachio and seems like a simple fix on the coding side but never fixed. If you have a lot of zones it is more time consuming than just simply being able to change it in the app for an existing schedule.

post by Lars on Mar 3, 2023

You don’t have to set up the zones again. Just add them all to a flex schedule. Can only be a few minutes work and then disable the monthly schedule. Feels like this is a non issue.