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DominikHoffmann

Dominik

Indianapolis, Indiana, area

I live in a suburban neighborhood. Our HOA covenant makes irrigation systems in the front yard mandatory. Previous owners upgraded to a whole-yard eight-zone irrigation system. As of the spring of 2021 I am new to smart irrigation controllers, particularly the Rachio 3.

I have a fair amount of experience with networking and other areas of IT. My home network is rather complex, comprised of a pfSense router/Internet gateway and a Velop constellation configured as Wi-Fi access points.

Catching up after grass has turned yellow

Depending on what is causing the yellow spots. I am guessing from what you said, needed water. Other things might be too much nitrogen (such as dog urine or nitrogen burn), pests (grubs), soil compaction, or nutrient deficiencies. Things I have had to do: For water deficiencies, water and maybe Revi...

My lawn is brown—what to do?

Wow 9 minutes. My grass zones run for 37 minutes. I have a different soil type, my roots are set to 5.9 inches and my nozzle inches per hour is 0.7. Are you sure your soil type is accurate? You can determine nozzle inches per hour in several ways - a cup test, using your water meter. Do a search h...

As said above, please post a screenshot of your zone settings and schedule. Once you have your zone settings dialed in correctly, there are a couple of settings you can adjust if you need to fine tune your system.
(1) To increase the frequency of watering, increase the crop coefficient.
(2) To inc...

If you provide the details, such as a screen print, of your zone settings people here can probably offer better suggestions. One question, how did you determine your nozzle inches per hour? If you just used the default then perhaps that isn’t close to what your sprinklers actually put out. If that’s...

If you give the system crap data, it will give you crap in return. In all cases, there must be something wrong with the data you have given it for your zones - be it the sizes, the wrong soil, the wrong crop coefficient, or wrong nozzle inches / cm’s per hour I suggest you post the details of one...

You’ve answered your own question here. Rachio waters a third as often, but 3 times as much. Grass should not be watered more than 2-3 times a week at most. Watering every day promotes shallow roots and weak grass.

If you want to water daily for 15 to 20 minutes you will need to use a Fixed Schedule. If you research lawn watering everything tells you to water more deeply but less often to encourage root growth. A Flex Monthly schedule calculates how much water is required and uses the historical weather averages.