jay (support) wrote:If you want to use the built-in "smarts" then the Rachio plugin doesn't really do much for you though you would get status (slowish given the poll throttling).
I forked the Rachio plugin with the intention of playing around with using the "smarts" and still having a useful Indigo plugin but haven't had time to mess with it yet. I'm on the fence about the ETo functionality of the Rachio, which is 100% of the reason I bought it.
My lawn is doing fine but there isn't anything smart about having to put in every ETo parameter yourself. I wrote an ETo sprinkler wrapper plugin to use ETo and it was a lot of work to get dialed in, I could have saved $200 and just kept using that honestly.
If I had to do all over again I would not choose the Rachio probably, unless I can get the smarts working perfectly. Too much latency between the cloud service and my house for my taste. Nest would be 50/50 for me for the same reason, but I'm willing to put up with Nest a bit more because of the aesthetics, I don't care what the old EZ-Flora looked like . I still have the EZ-Flora, time will tell if it will grace my wall again in the spot that Rachio occupies.