Rainmachine lack of feature to use Netatmo rain gauge to manage watering instead of hardware rain sensor!
FYI, II do not use hardware rain sensor to manage sprinklers but Netatmo rain gauge.
I Found out despite the fact that Rainmachine can use Netatmo devices as a link to gather data to adjust its functions but cannot manage to stop watering when Netatmo Rain gauge signals that is raining or rained already enough, and Rainmachine continue waste water, (and this lack of feature to me for my home has a exorbitant cost)
The fact that Rainmachine doesn't use Netatmo rain gauge information (input) as "hardware rain sensor" is disappointing.
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RainMachine can get weather data from NetAtmo and use this data to calculate and correct future irrigation. Using NetAtmo as a rain sensor is possible using IFTTT (see this link: https://ifttt.com/connect/netatmo/rain_machine).
I personally don't use rain sensor to stop irrigation, even on the low probability event that irrigation would start when raining, I choose to let RainMachine correct this on the next scheduled irrigation which in the long run you get similar water savings.
Of course some locations have micro-climates that never really hit the spot with weather forecast for which this rain sensor rule might make sense, but even with these locations in the long run the savings are similar.
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RainMachine should implement these features within it's firmware rather than relying on an outside service (IFTTT) that may not be around in the future. This use of IFTTT just adds more work and another layer of complexity to setting up an irrigation system controller. In addition, IFTTT appears to be gradually moving to a paid service model. Most of us are not going to be happy if that happens.
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