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Greg S

See the last paragraph of my response to Heiko for clarification

RainMachine is too conservative about not shutting off my watering. We're five days since the rain and my soil is still wet enough to not need watering. So I have to manually "Snooze". But once I do that, I may forget to go back and change it. For example it's likely to rain in two or three days, so my preference would be to snooze for another five days. But if it doesn't rain, I'd like to be reminded. No solution jumps out as the best, but here goes:

If I snooze for ten days, send me a reminder in five days that I've done so.

Also when I go to the device page, I see a "1" in a circle. Makes me think it's snoozed/paused for one day. 

PS Two different words are used for the same thing: snooze and paused. Please pick one or the other, by using two words for the same thing, you're suggesting they are different things. Paused is probably the better choice. Snooze has the connotation of putting off until later making a decision.

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    RainMachine Support

    Hi, Greg, Heiko
    Thank you for your interest and for sharing your experience with our RainMachine devices.

    In the coming days (already on internal testings) we will release the RainMachine mobile apps Push Notifications options for all our users and you will have the possibility to choose which one to get. Between them is the Snooze push notification that trigger when it's started and when it's stopped. So it will be helpful to be reminded when the Snooze restriction has finished at what time of the day, right on your mobile phone.

    The "RainMachine is paused" is the general message for the RainMachine restrictions "on screen" notification. If you tap it will open the active restrictions list and you'll see how much Snooze time has left. The restriction name is called: "Snooze" and the restrictions action is to "pause" the RainMachine device watering activity.
    The "1" in the circle represents the number of active restrictions on that moment. Let's say you have selected Thursday and Friday as Weekdays restriction, but you also have the Freeze Protect restriction selected. If today or tomorrow it will be freezing outside you will have "2" active restrictions on your RainMachine device.

    Thank you.
    RainMachine Team

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    Heiko

    Well, I use Weekdays or Month restrictions for that, never used Snooze more than 1 day:)

    Thanks

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    Greg S (Edited )

    Heiko

    How do you use Weekdays or Month restrictions to shut off the water for a number of days? 

    I just realized I left out an important word in the first sentence of my OP. I should have said. RainMachine is too conservative about not shutting off my watering, which I have now changed.

    And maybe I wasn't clear on what I want. First I'd like RM to be more accurate, but assuming for the time being that's not going to happen, I'd like to may a long estimate on how long I don't need to water and then be reminded part way in about who many days are left on snooze. (I guess I could set a reminder somewhere else, but that means invoking another app.) Or it could be the other way around, I'd set a shorter snooze and get a reminder that it's about to end.

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    Heiko

    Oh, Greg, my misunderstanding, sorry
    As I said I do not use Snoozed on my system, but I don't mind using Weekday restriction for a number of days let's say Thursday to next Tuesday.
    From where I am I did not have any issues with the RainMachine not shutting off my watering, as you say. I would probably check the weather services status and see if they are giving the right info. I realized that using two weather services, somehow can be less accurate, I am using NOAA and I'm good.

    Thanks and sorry again. 

    Heiko

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    Greg S

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    The improvements sound good. Knowing when the pause is about to stop is what I was looking for. 

    Thank you for the snooze/pause clarification although I'm not sure I'll remember that, but maybe I'll remember they are the same thing.

    And if RM continues to work as I think it is (I've only had it a few months, so haven't been through a full season). We live in a somewhat unusual environment. Before I had two basic programs—less watering between Nov and April, and shutting the whole system off (snoozing/pausing) manually around rain events and my assessment of the need. But that meant watering was left on when we weren't going to be around to monitor it. 

    We've had a lot of rain this year (Southern California—previous two years about 30% of normal rain). But the soil doesn't dry out as fast as RM expects, but I haven't studied how much watering would happen if I didn't snooze. For example we had heavy rain two weeks ago, cool weather in between, and rain expected today (which is happening although I'm not there for it). So I've been pausing RM since the rain, and before leaving yesterday set it to pause for five days. The kicker is that we can get very warm weather in the winter (80-90F).

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