Customer Ratings & Reviews

This system does everything for you - monitor the weather, run cycles as needed. What more do you need. It's a great upgrade. Easy to install. Zones with Pictures! Cool. Easy to share control, too. You won't regret this box hanging on your wall.

Super easy to set up and program. Great upgrade from my 25 year old analog controller.

Great product. Uses all the current updates from wifi and sensors to determine if watering is needed or will automatically change watering cycles based on current weather info. You can also make changes directly from your phone and app is pretty easy to use.

This thing is amazing! Truly set up once with a ton of details about your lawn and system and never worry about it again. Has cut my water usage significantly and my lawn has never looked better.

We had the 2nd generation model, only upgraded to this one because of the move with a larger yard and 14 zones. Easy set up and easy to adjust from the app. No complaints on the 2nd generation or this one. Love the rain monitoring.

Bought on Earth Day at cheaper price than the older 8 zone model. Only have 8 zones on my system, but this had more features and allows for future expansion if needed. Installed myself (not an irrigation guy, but somewhat of a techy). Was a little confusing mapping the wires from my old system. Took some trial and error and referencing some online guides from Rachio. Looks a heck of alot better on my wall than the old one. Has been up and running now for almost a year. Very reliable. Easy to get basic schedules setup. Lots of advanced options available. Definitely helps keep our plants green in Dallas, TX once it is set right.

Replaced my existing sprinkler system. This is so useful. Installation is also easy if you are planning to do it by yourself. All through mobile, so easy.

My water bill went from $800 to $200, no exaggeration, even BEFORE getting the Rachio Flowmeter. The controller when I bought the house made it so difficult to figure out what zone was what, to trouble shoot, to set up a schedule, and FORGET troubleshooting! I had a Hunter controller, so installing and setting this up myself was super easy. Now, I can watch my yard respond for a couple weeks, tweak here and there, and like I said, get to a point where I'm saving $600/mo with a beautiful yard! When this season started, the Flowmeter helped alert me to two sprinkler heads that broke, and I'd never have known. Love this thing!

The Rachio works much better than a standard sprinkler controller, it was a breeze to set up and I love how it saves on water depending on current weather conditions.

Set up was a breeze and the rain skip smart feature automatically skips watering when rain is coming. Makes it much easier than remembering to turn off the old system.

Easy to install, easy to set up and easy to control the operation. Far superior in controlling what areas to water and when compared to my old sprinkler controller.

We bought this controller as we had an outdated one that wasn’t very user friendly and needed replacement. This was almost as plug and play as you can be, just some minor low voltage connections and you are good to go. I like that I can use dynamic weather to increase or decrease the water intervals to keep our landscaping hydrated. Have used the mobile app to be able to walk around and check heads without having to go to the controller every time. Unfortunately I had to buy the 16 zone to use on my 9 zone system

I'd been looking for a smart sprinkler controller for some time and with the available rebate and the high reviews it seemed to be a good choice. Being able to control the sprinklers remotely is a nice benefit especially when travelling or when the weather changes. You can also take pictures of the areas being watered giving the app a personal touch when turning on zones. The Rachio unit also adjusts for high heat or rainfall so you don't have to look foolish when your sprinklers are running during a storm. The biggest issue that I have with the unit is there is no display so turning the unit on manually is impossible if you or your gardener haven't read the manual. A display and some info on the touchpad would make life much easier in those situations. Other than that the unit has worked well with no issues.

Overall, this controller is great. Easy step by step instructions on how to replace the existing and setup the new one. This would get 5 stars if there wasn't one big issue, network connectivity. The issue is that if network connectivity is interrupted (power, loss of internet, etc), the unit attempts to connect and appears to be recycling between step 2 and 3, but won't connect back to the network. The only thing I've come up with is unplugging and plugging it back it in solves the problem every time. I thought that putting a light timer on the outlet to have it recycle daily would help, but oddly enough, it did not. Otherwise, it is a great controller, plenty of configuration options and advanced options for those that really want to fine-tune their watering needs.

Rachio is the best smart sprinkler system I've used by a wide margin. The installation was easy to do by myself and the functionality through the app is incredible. It has so many different factors that it looks at to determine the watering time for each zone, like the type of sprinkler head, the type of soil, how much sun the zone gets throughout the day, and the slope of the zone.

I have been very impressed with my new Rachio 3. It was simple to take out my old Rain Bird unit and wire in the Rachio, took less than an hour while taking my time. WiFi hasn't had any issues, and integration with my Android smart phone makes me wonder why I didn't do this sooner! Jury is still out on how much this will save me on my water bill, but regardless the grass and plants are happy and so are we with our new Rachio 3.

It was an easy replacement for my old timer-based system. The tie-in to weather forecast/data is what I was looking for and has worked well this summer. I would like a better way to tweak the watering time in the app, but it does tie to your soil type. I didn't bother adding the rain sensor because it gets data off the internet.

Very easy to use I installed this with no issue . the app is awesome too

The setup was really easy. I didn't need to hire a handyman. It works really great.

This is an upgrade from the Generation 2 that I had been running. Loved how easy it was to swap out the controller. Better yet, the app kept all of my setting and transferred them to this new Generation 3 controller. It could not have been easier. The old gen 2 had a problem dropping offline on almost a weekly basis. Very annoying. So far no similar issues with this 3rd gen controller.