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Turn them all on and the Rain Bird becomes quite chatty-I was soon inundated with notices that seasonal adjustments had been applied (several times each week), and that the Wi-Fi unit attached to the Rain Bird had disconnected and/or reset. This can be changed by delving into the settings menu, where various notifications can be turned on. None of that is ideal, but it’s at least an improvement.Įach time you launch the Rain Bird app, prepare for a wait….Īlso of note, by default the ST8I does not provide any push updates when watering runs occur. History details older than that are deleted.
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Now, the app features a more full-featured calendar that looks forward 30 days, plus offers one week of historical watering information. Previously, the app maxed out by showing just a few days of your upcoming calendar and nothing in the way of historical information.
#RAINBIRD WIFI SPRINKLER CONTROLLER UPDATE#
The ST8I offers limited reporting and calendaring features, though an app update pushed out during my testing improved this considerably. (Note that the integrated weather forecast can take up to a day to show up in the app after initial installation.) The ST8I can be set to skip watering altogether if it’s raining, but only if you have a wired rain sensor installed. This may be handy for some users, but I found the Rain Bird reducing watering times even as the temperature in my neighborhood was soaring to nearly 100 degrees and when watering should have been at its highest.
The ST8I does, however, include a limited seasonal adjustment feature, which will reduce watering if the weather forecast is cooler. Rather than making a guess about ideal run times based on your environment, it’s up to you to decide how long you want your various zones to run. Integrated weather reports are handy, but tend to run hotter than reality.Īs well, the ST8I doesn’t include the typical “smart settings” feature that most products in this space offer.
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This can be time-consuming (up to 15 seconds each time) if all you want to do is check on the watering schedule or start a manual watering run, and it isn’t the “smartest” use of a mobile app we’ve encountered in this space, though certain settings, like the time, are synced from your phone automatically.
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Every time you run the app, it has to connect to the ST8I to download the settings stored on the unit. Unlike many smart sprinkler controllers, the ST8I’s mobile app serves primarily as a way to manage its onboard controls remotely. Once all the zones have runt the watering will stop.The app isn’t the most responsive, and it took me a few days of using the ST8I to figure out exactly why.
You can use the “Skip Next” to move to the next zone in the watering program. There is one other way to start manual watering on controllers with programs, press the down arrow below the program card and select “Run”.
Some of the newer models are like the screen on the below right where there are 3 options for manual watering, a “Quick Run” where all zones will run the same scheduled time in sequence, a “Program Run”, where you can run all the zones the scheduled time for that program, or “Custom Watering”, where you can set any combination of time for different zones and press the start button at the bottom of the screen.ģ. Some are like the image on the below left where only one zone can be scheduled at a time. Different controller models have different manual watering screen options. You can get to the manual water screen by selecting the “water drop” icon on the controller card in the Rain Bird App home screen, or by pressing the controller card and then pressing on the water drop icon at the bottom of the screen.Ģ. There are a few ways to turn on your sprinklers when they are not scheduled to run, called “manual” watering.ġ. Topic(s): Programming Sprinkler Manual Watering
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