I was looking at this last week and it was $350, down to $250 on Amazon. Integrates with Home Assistant natively.
CamelCamelCamel.
Which solenoids would you recommend?
Hunter 24v.
Depending how complex your irrigation requirements are i would not look past OpenSprinkler for a similar price. This might be perfect for households but if you happen to own a rural acreage or have complex water requirements (parallel or sequential zones, offsets for masters, concurrent solenoids) this might not do what you need
Also im a farmer FWIW
OpenSprinkler for the win. If you have a bit of diy electronics know how you can get away with it relatively cheaply
AFAIK, this uses a non-permitted frequency band to communicate.
https://community.rachio.com/t/rachio-3-and-australia-illega…
I see this has been resolved
"Good news for Australia! We have removed the LoRa module that was broadcasting on the 900Mhz channel. Any new Rachio Generation 3 units are not broadcasting on this channel anymore so are in compliance with Australian regulations."
Awesome they fixed this.
I've had the old controller for a couple years, it was a super easy mod to open, desolder and remove a tiny component to make it compliant in Australia.
Nice they have sorted it out on their end.
Awesome controller and app, highly recommended
If you're already on home assistant there's no need to waste money on this, get any that can integrate with home assistant. I haven't tried but the inkbird 6 channel goes below $100 very regularly
I'm using orbit atm. The ui sux and I'm really keen to migrate the automation to home assistant.