Rachio flow meter3/16/2024 I wonder if any powered active 900 Mhz LoRa repeaters exist…and cheap ones at that. Only Rachio team would know possibility there. Again, hopefully RF power isn’t already maxed out. Higher power would mean lower sensor battery life, but that could be trade-off for in ground sensor setups. Maybe Rachio controller and/or flow sensor antenna power is being currently being managed lower than FCC certified limits and can be tweaked by software change. If it worked, a support frame could be added and plants could help hide the setup. Some suggestions may sound dumb.Īt least for a trial, it seems you could move the sensor above ground by adding vertical sections of PVC…assuming you have water pressure to spare. The distance of your controller to sensor is certainly well within the Rachio advertised distance, so hopefully has other ideas. I’m no expert on RF, but the pictures should help the community provide additional ideas. The corresponding 900 Mhz antenna on controller is upper left as viewed on Rachio 3 FCC cert photo… side of your valve box is closest to Rachio 3 controller? I’m just wondering if earth needs to be cleared out further close to sensor and/or on the valve box side closest to the antenna (outside box)…not that I know what could be filled in in place of dirt that would cause less RF impact than dirt or Great. I also believe the flow direction arrow in this photo points from right to left). in this photo the led is shown towards bottom. I believe the photo shows the top down view rotated 180 degrees as you would normally look at controller with connection LED towards top. upside down (batteries up) made the flow meter drop the app or web interface offer this SNR info or were you looking at signal data reported to cloud that only Rachio can see? I’m wondering for other users that may want/need to run experiments on their setup.Īlso, did you happen to determine that low flow notification messages were from low signal strength?įrom the photos published on the FCC website for flow sensor cert, it appears that the antenna is close to being under the printed Rachio logo on the sensor faceplate. John’s flow meter is sitting at -9 or -10 and intermittently dropping out. We can see SNR (signal to noise ratio) of the radio which can be anywhere from -10 (worst) to +10 (best).
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