Rachio for Home Assistant (built-in integration)

About

Rachio is a built-in integration that connects Rachio irrigation controllers to Home Assistant through the vendor's cloud. It adds binary sensors for flow and rain, switches for rain delay and standby, and calendars. Zones can also be controlled with switches, and an option sets how many minutes a zone runs when its switch is turned on. Actions cover starting a single zone, a schedule or smart hose timers, starting several zones as a custom schedule, pausing, resuming and stopping watering, and setting zone moisture percentage. Zones started together should be on the same controller to avoid issues. Setup happens in the interface with an API key, and Home Assistant can discover the device on the network and offer to add it.

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Supports

Uses the vendor's cloud Needs an internet connection and an account with the vendor.
Set up in the UI Add it in Settings, Devices and services. Nothing to download.
Found by itself Home Assistant spots it on the network and offers to add it.
Updated with Home Assistant Ships and updates with every Home Assistant release.

Provides

Switches
Calendars

Setting it up

Home Assistant usually finds it on the network and offers to add it. It can also be added by hand under Settings, Devices and services.

Connect to your Rachio device

API key

After setup

Duration in minutes to run when activating a zone switch

Texts from Home Assistant's source code, Apache License 2.0.

Entities

Binary sensorsFlow, Rain
SwitchesRain delay, Standby

Actions

Pause wateringPauses any currently running zones or schedules.Fields: Devices, Duration
Resume wateringResumes any paused zone runs or schedules.Fields: Devices
Set zone moisture percentSets the moisture percentage of a zone or list of zones.Fields: Percent
Start multiple zonesCreates a custom schedule of zones and runtimes. Note that all zones should be on the same controller to avoid issues.Fields: Duration
Start wateringStarts a single zone, a schedule or any number of smart hose timers.Fields: Duration
Stop wateringStops any currently running zones or schedules.Fields: Devices