It is set for launch in March 2023 at an expected list of $99.įor all of the latest new releases in the world of tech and beyond, swing over to our CES 2023 hub and stay locked to our smart home guide. The new Rachio Smart Hose Timer will come with a valve and Wi-Fi hub when it starts shipping to leading retailers (including Amazon) and comes available on the official site in a few months time. The Smart Hose Timer joins the Rachio 3 Smart Sprinkler Controller in ensuring consumers are watering appropriately for their local environmental and weather conditions and have access to their personal water usage data. accounts for nearly 8 billion gallons of water each day, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, and as much as 50% of that water is lost due to inefficient irrigation methods and systems. Residential outdoor water use in the U.S. The Smart Hose Timer will “automatically skip an individual watering based on real-time rain, and not the entire day’s schedule, ensuring that other runs aren’t unnecessarily skipped.” Rachio allows its customers to “truly personalize their watering, showing every scheduled run in-app and letting customers easily skip or unskip any” of them.Īside from the actual convenience of a system like this that just about anyone using your typical outdoor hose for watering can enjoy, it also mitigates excess water loss as well as allowing folks to keep a close eye on their personal water usage data: The brand’s built-in Weather Intelligence and hyper-local weather tracking can “automatically adjust watering schedules based on changes in weather and seasons.”
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The new Wi-Fi connected Smart Hose Timer, according to Rachio, “can be installed in under 10 minutes and easily connects an existing hose spigot to a hose, turning it into an intelligent water delivery tool.” Working alongside the free Rachio app, users can program and schedule multiple different water schedules for each day while leveraging a series of smart features. The new Smart Hose Timer seems to be a much more universal solution, effectively adding a layer of remote smartphone control and tracking to the water flow coming out of your typical home outdoor faucet and, subsequently, your average sprinkler setup.
Simple one-dial programming allows for 2 to 90 minutes of watering. The Rachio Smart Irrigation Controller is one of the more popular and modern solutions for home owners, but it in many ways is limited to folks that already have some kind of watering system in place. An entry-level model from an impressive line of water timers produced by Orbit thats recommended for basic watering needs such as lawn care or drip irrigation.
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