Fixed Schedules
Last Update:Jun 12 2024 4:57pm • Est. Read Time:Est. Read Time: 2 MINSummary
Simply put, Fixed Schedules allow you to select which days you wish to water. More specifically, a Fixed Schedule will be permitted to run on only the days or intervals you set. If you have your schedule set to run on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, it will always run (Weather Skips permitting) on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Using the previous example, say you do have Weather Skips enabled on your Fixed schedule, and it's skipped on Monday; the next scheduled watering day will still be Wednesday.
Note
While Fixed schedules will not change their interval (the days of the week you've programmed them to run), changing your zone settings does have the potential to affect the watering duration of any Fixed schedules that have Seasonal Shift enabled.
Video Overview - Fixed Schedule
Water when you like!
With a Fixed Schedule, you can decide precisely when you would like to water. This is very useful if you have watering restrictions or a new seed.
When-to-water options include:
- Specific days (for example, every Monday and Thursday)
- Even or odd intervals (such as watering every even or every odd day)
- Daily interval (every day, every 2 days, every 3 days, every 4 days, etc.)
- Hourly interval(every hour, every 2 hours, every 4 hours, or every 6 hours).
- Hourly schedules run all day based on your selected interval and are timed off of your selected start or end time.
When is a Fixed Schedule a good choice for my lawn?
A Fixed Schedule can be ideal for a user who wants the most manual control over their Rachio (similar to an older non-smart controller), or for a user who has more than 3 restricted days a week. Weather Intelligence features such as Saturation Skip, Rain Skip, Freeze Skip, Wind Skip, and Seasonal Shift are still supported with Fixed Schedules.
Note
This is different than our Flex Monthly Schedule, which creates a schedule for you at the beginning of each month based on seasonality and historical data. These could run your schedule on any day it decides (with restrictions not supported).
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