Home Screen - Zones and stats not weather
The main reason I use the RainMachine (which I am loving, BTW), is as an irrigation controller, not a weather machine.
Therefore, I suggest the home screen on the physical device should be more like the "Zones" view in the app. I never want to see the weather when I activate the Rain Machine, I always want to do something related to the primary purpose of the device - irrigation controller! Don't bury the lede....
One other topic would be history of watering cycles. The most useful information, at a quick glance, should be:
* By zone, using my picture and zone name
* What has recently occurred (last few waterings, date, time, and duration)
* Next watering (you have part of this, but include upcoming duration)
* Modifiers currently applied to the schedule based upon weather or whatever.
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Hi Kevin,
This is good feedback, we are considering a more zone centric UI which should also be easier to use for home users. With the next update the local interface on device was changed so the home screen now list all programs not just some weather/simulation percentage.
Although this is not what you propose it's closer to show what actually the device will do. We also want to overlay the duration information beside day percentages. Right now Web UI can show per zone information (on mouse over the zone circles for each program) but we want something better and more information on each zone (which schedule it's in, when it will run and how much etc).
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Isn't RainMachine just "user rain" device?
Irrigation controller way of thinking shows watering times on main page (production times), but not water used (product?).
Many depends on (local) weather, ie no rain conditions in CA can give different device expectations than rainy weather in NY ;-)
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