I'm a big fan of RainMachine, and have installed three so far for family 
and friends - The WeeWx integration works perfectly for hourly updates. 
It's a very clean product (hardware, web UI, iOS app). I'm normally a DIY 
guy and have lots of Pi's around the house automating various things, but 
for the home irrigation, I don't regret at all going with a turnkey 
solution.

Happy to answer any questions you have about RainMachine.


Mike Wren
Albany, NY



On Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 7:57:37 PM UTC-4, Xant wrote:
>
>
> WiFi75
>
> Your posting is REALLY timely in my case...
>
> As an early adopter of HomeAutomation, I have my lawn serviced by 
> Cyber-Rain... really "high-tech" among my neighbors at that time, but the 
> original Company sold a couple year ago and sending "end-of-life" notices - 
> as their services, depends on their cloud Hosting services to function, 
> otherwise the lawn will fry...
>
> So, what's going on with Cyber-Rain (http://www.cyber-rain.com), now 
> Galcon.
>
> 1) Microsoft Silverlight
> "Microsoft Silverlight is a deprecated application framework for writing 
> and running rich Internet applications, similar to Adobe Flash. A plugin 
> for Silverlight is still available for some browsers." As today, only IE 
> would support it.
> The requirement of Silverlight, shows that NO further development was 
> performed towards Cyber-Rain application.
>
> 2) Cyber-Rain apps
> Outdated, flawed... 
>
> There are MANY more tech difficulties just to have the Sprinkles to 
> work... but no need to mention... Cyber-Rain is gone, and I need a 
> Replacement. Unfortunately, another good hardware to go to pile... (and $).
>
> Back to "options"... as I'm researching for Stable and Most connected 
> option...
>
> A) OpenSprinkler
> Its promising... based on RPi, but still into to early call. And don't 
> want to spent more $ to hardware that would have short live....
>
> B) "Any" Sprinkler
> Current sided to Rachio 3e, for price and connectivity. with a close call 
> by RainMachine.
>
> Feedbacks are welcome, towards WeeWX and HomeAssistant connectivity.
>
> Xant
>

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