Zone Stops Watering Despite No Rainfall
I have had a Rain Machine for several months. I have one zone programmed (Landscape). Things worked well for a week or two but eventually stopped watering per the schedule. I thought it could be to rainfall on a prior day but this continued for several days. I deleted and recreated the program and everything started working again...for another week or two. And then the same thing happened. I’ve tried this four or five times now and it always happens. Am thinking it could be some setting or perhaps a bug. Here are some screenshots and graphs of rainfall and watering history.
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I believe it's the available water in soil. Could you look at Field Capacity graph on that zone, using Web interface ? Also Web interface should also tell you the reason this zone didn't start in Settings > Water log.
Also a screenshot of zone settings from Web interface would be good for further debugging. I'm mentioning Web interface since it has much more space to show detailed information.
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Hi Nicholas - thanks for the quick response. It doesn't look like it is due to the available water in the soil (screenshot below). I logged in to the Web interface and went to Settings ->Watering History but don't see any details (screenshot below). Am I looking in the right place? Am also including a screenshot of Zone settings.
Chris
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Yes, you are correct you still have a little water in soil left. As for the missing reason on water log, do you have by chance "Adaptive Frequency" set in program ? There is a bug that we fixed in current beta that prevent showing this flag on interfaces.
P.S. If you feel that available water is not correct on your zone you can lower the field capacity (using the +/- buttons on zone settings). But even if soil surface looks dry it still might hold water at plant root depth.
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