Ability to turn Master Valve off before Zone Valve
Gathering FeedbackThe current implementation only allows for the master valve to be turned off so many seconds AFTER the program has ended. I have some areas that have automatic drains after the master valve and need a pressure drop to be able to open.
I would like the ability to be able to close the master valve so many seconds BEFORE the zone valve is closed to allow a pressure drop to occur between the master valve and sprinkler heads.
This could be implemented as simply as allowing for the option of negative time (say up to -60sec) before the cycle ends to have the master valve close.
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FYI to RainMachine: see same or similar requests:
https://support.rainmachine.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/220715808-Master-Valve-Controll
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It seems that the easiest method would be to tie it to the schedule. So when the schedule is going to start, it opens the master vale X amount of time before the schedule starts (the RainMachine knows when the schedule is going to start and how long it will run) and then starts watering when the schedule time starts. When the schedule is set to end, it closes the main valve when the schedule ends and then closes the last zone being used X amount of time after the schedule ended. This would mean that the RainMachine doesn't need to worry about the other zones.
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