I'm doing some homework on replacement sprinkler controllers that can monitor the weather locally in one way or another (to reduce water consumption among other reasons).. I currently am not interested in any of the brands that monitor via a subscription service from satellites/radio/internet (~$50/year). The three I've narrowed down my interest in are as follows (all use their own hardware to determine "weather") :
- Aqua Conserve's Controller (ET-6 or higher) 2. Weatherset's Controller - formatting link3. Smartline controller by Weathermatic -formatting link
I've found some review material (see link below) for the first two that was dated about 2 years ago and I realize that while neither review was overly great, I suspect that firmware/software upgrades may have been done since then to update their algorithms to work better. I spoke w/ Andy at the Weatherset company and he seemed helpful/knowledgeable but it's a pretty small shop from what I can tell and that controller got a bum review in the above mentioned report for keeping the lawn/garden too dry (at that time) but am willing to find out if that issue has been resolved (but haven't asked yet).
Anyway, I really like the featureset on the Smartline controller, but can't would prefer some feedback from real users of any of these items and how they perform.
So -- have any of you here used any of the above controllers?
Here the link to the review mentioned above :