Smart water valve (hose spigot connection) - Sonoff or LinkTap?

[jlv]

I just set up a SONOFF SWV, paired to my C7. It works pretty well. I've got it set up to water a new patch of grass I planted 3 weeks ago, going 11 minutes x 4 times a day. It's been working pretty well for me.

Zigbee Smart Water Valve | SWV - SONOFF Official

Amazon.com: SONOFF Sprinkler Timer Zigbee 3.0, Smart Sprinkler Controller...

It was easy to pair and set up. I'm using lithium batteries (I've given up on alkaline). I'm pretty happy with it so far.

I'm using this app to trigger the value:

[Release] Sprinkler Schedule Manager App

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It in turn uses this app to decide if there will be enough rain to skip watering:

[RELEASE] Precipitation and Weather Monitor for National Weather Service Data (USA Only)

I was unable to find a good source of precipitation data within Hubitat that did not require a subscription or a key of some kind so I wrote my own. This driver uses the hourly reports from the thousands of airports around the US (link) collated by the NWS to extract precipitation and other weather related data for a specified location. So, for those that live close enough to an airport where that precipitation number is generally a reasonable estimate for the rainfall at your home and you wan…