Does the Rainbird ARC6 Irrigation Controller work with HA? (lemmy.ca)

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Does anyone know if the ARC6 and Arc8 rainbird irrigation controllers work with home assistant? The Integration mentions that it works via the LNK Wifi module which is an add on module for older devices. The ARC6 and ARC8 have wifi built in and use the same phone app. It sounds like Rainbird did a firmware update to add a bunch of cloud stuff and changed the API, there was recently a fix for the new firmware but I'm still not sure if I buy an ARC6 or ARC8 today if it will work with HA.

Does anyone have an ARC6/8 that is working with HA?

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[-] Lem453@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

For anyone else that happens upon this thread, don't bother buying anything other that this if you want to go with HA: https://opensprinkler.com/

The only reason to use any other system is if you already have it installed and don't want to get new hardware

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