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6 Reasons You Need a Smart Sprinkler!! If you haven’t upgraded your old sprinkler controller, you really should.
December 2020 • Castle Rock “AreaNewsletters”
And Winter is a good time to make that happen!
Smart sprinklers belong in the no-brainer category of smart home upgrades. Seriously. Smart sprinklers might not be anywhere near the top of your list when you think of connected devices, and if you have an in-ground sprinkler system, you need one. Here are six reasons why.
This part’s obvious. Like most connected devices, you can control smart sprinklers with an app. Smart sprinklers are designed to replace the existing sprinkler controller for your in-ground sprinkler system. You’ll get the most bene t from a smart sprinkler if it’s powering the existing watering system that covers your yard. Replacing an existing controller is usually easy enough. Then you just need to use the app to connect your new smart sprinkler to Wi-Fi and you’re up and running.
With the apps you can set up schedules, see a watering calendar, and turn your sprinklers on or off with the push of a button. All of these app-enabled features are a signi cant upgrade from walking to the shed and fussing with the tedious buttons and knobs of old-school controllers.
2) Weather awareness
1) App controls
The app’s an even bigger upgrade when it’s raining. Instead of heading to your control box to ip off your sprinkler, or deciding you don’t want to bother and letting the water go to waste, you can quickly shut them off with the app. With the best smart sprinklers, you won’t even have to do that.
Most smart sprinklers monitor the weather for you, so they’ll automatically be on top of the fact that it’s raining and you won’t see your sprinklers start running in the rst place. They’re generally aware of rain in the forecast, and they’ll adapt your watering schedule accordingly.
In fact, not only will your smart sprinkler adapt your schedule to the weather before you even need to think about it, but they can also set up your whole watering schedule for you from scratch.
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You might want to listen to your smart sprinkler’s advice, even if you do traditionally like to set your sprinkler
3) Auto scheduling
Many of the best smart sprinklers offer a variety of scheduling options. You can tell the app about your yard, and then you can let it decide when it’s best to water and for how long. Even with these fully
autonomous schedules, you can block off days if you have local watering restrictions, and the app will work the schedule around those limits. You don’t have to think about when it would be best to water and how often. The app will handle it all and water when necessary.
4) Smarter than you
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