Yes, in the OtO Lawn app you can control the maximum amount of water your OtO device applies to each zone each time it waters in a schedule.
Navigate to the Schedules page, open the schedule you'd like to configure, and tap Zones. Select the zone you'd like to adjust from the list.
Once you've selected a zone, you can either use the Suggested amount slider, or if those options aren't granular enough, enter a Custom amount.
Suggested amount can be set with a slider - these preset values vary depending on the type of zone.
If you find that the suggested amounts don't include the amount of water you're looking for, you can enter a Custom amount. Here you can adjust the watering amount to whatever value you'd like (up to a maximum/minimum value) by either using the +/- keys or by tapping on the value and entering a number with your smartphone keyboard.
Notes on Weekly Watering Depth
The amount of water applied is defined on a per event basis. Therefore, the amount of water applied during each watering event is equally multiplied by the number of events scheduled per week.
Example:
| Water Applied in each event | Number of waterings in schedule per week | Weekly Watering amount |
| 0.5 in | 4 | 2 in |
What if I change my schedule?
The amount of water to be applied in the following watering events will be updated if the number of events scheduled per week has changed.
What if I use the 'Water Manually' option?
When you use the 'Water Manually' option to water your lawn outside of the regular schedule, the amount of water applied in these manual sessions do not count towards the weekly watering limit.
How do I check how much my zone waters in a week?
- Go to the Zones tab
- Select the zone you want to check the total weekly watering amount for
The weekly watering amount adds up weekly watering amounts from all schedules the zone is a part of.
Note: Any watering you did using water on demand isn't included in the Weekly watering amount
It would be useful to be able to adjust the amount of water delivered to each spot zone - different plants require different amounts of water.
Adding to David Fox's comment:
Currently (as it is at the time of this writing) each unit is allotted a specific "watering limit". This is great for 'general' use (grass, average plants, etc.) but does not cover any corner cases. Examples:
- Filling or topping off ponds
- Filing bird baths
- Soaking hanging plants
If I were to top off my pond,, suddenly my grass will die from lack of water. Does that make sense?
I suggest a simple fix (that I do not believe would change much on the dev side for Oto), being this:
--- Create a (per-device, watering limit) override.
--- UI looks like this:
Show average gallons per week delivered next to what is currently displayed. Might look like:
> Currently looks like: "NORMAL", "1¼ in", "About 15 gallons"
> After change looks like: "OVERRRIDE ON", "12 ½ in", "About 150 gallons"
Functionally all that is going on above is allowing the user the ability to adjust the maximum water allowance.
*In my example I used 10x the current maximum to illustrate topping off a pond.
*To top off a pond right now,, I would have to have ten OtO units side-by-side. :(
I hope you see what I mean. ;)
Thanks for reading.
I love OtO enough that I currently have 6 units, all working great...
But it is frustrating to still have to hand water plants and fill pools even after purchasing six units,, as OtO's purpose seems to be the simplicity of "set it and forget it,, which is what gives it its huge edge over traditional watering systems.
Hope to see this in an update sometime. :D
Thanks again. Keep up the great work!
What Jeremiah said! I have 3 units, but with potted plants in different sizes and a container garden, we need better control over how much water to apply for the spot watering. I was really looking forward to covering everything in the yard, but after I started setting them up, I was disappointed I'll end up overwatering items using the spot option.
Related to the ability to do Spots vs Area. I think 5 gal/spot/week for a spot is bit excessive for "Minimal". Would need something significantly less tbh, and of course different limit per spot, but I guess we can use multiple Zones as a workaround.
I have a smart prinkler system control (Rachio) and having the ability to override and set my watering by time is an essential feature. Besides a front planter area, I want to deep water my large trees for 30-60 minutes as needed. Your app restricts me to just a couple minutes for a spot or line watering which renders the system unusable to me. Please update or I will have to return the system.