I'm trying to create a switch to turn "All Zones On/Off" via dashboard. Any assistance is appreciated.
I don't think the Rachio controller will let you turn on more than one zone at a time.
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You wouldn't want to do that anyways unless your sprinkler system's water supply is capable of ungodly levels of water pressure.
I've got a Rachio System setup with my Hubitat Hub. When I set it up, a device switch was created called "Rachio - Rachio Sprinkler System" as well as several other switches for all of my zone valves. I believe if you flip the first switch I mentioned the Rachio system will run all of the zones in sequence.
I had a Netro controller and they didn’t publish an API until this March. Netro is a good controller but the Alexa skill is a PIA and it only supported manually running one zone at a time - meaning no way to queue requests. So I bought a Rachio 3 before I realized that the API came out. Instead of trying the Rachio Alexa skill I built an RM to do what I wanted.
I expose a bunch of dimmer switches to Alexa. If a zone dimmer is set to level 20 it will manually run that zone for 20 minutes, then checks if any other dimmer is on it will run that zone next. So now I can set the backyard dimmer to 20, and that in turn sets the three backyard dimmers all to 20 and the RM takes over and runs the three zones sequentially.
I have a dashboard to monitor and I can toggle the dimmers via the dashboard but since it’s intended to monitor only, right now I don’t have a good way to set the value of the dimmers because I wanted to see the values as numbers - not sliders.
I initially tried naming the dimmers to “water zone 3” for example, but Alexa had issues and thinks you are telling her to water something and dimmers don’t support that. I didn’t try to switch to valves because I would not have been able set a duration the way I am using the level of the dimmer.
But this might be a start for what you want to achieve. Let me know and I can share info if you like.
Thank to JustinL , I created a virtual switch to trigger a Rule to "Set Mode / Actuate" command to "runAllZones" in Rachio
