Turning off a specific Rachio Zone turns off any currently running zones

[mattmelgard]

The problem

Attempting to stop the watering for a specific named zone in Rachio results in any currently running schedule or quick run, even if the zone being turned off wasn't part of the quick run or schedule that is currently running

For example, if I manually start my grass watering schedule by triggering the backyard_grass zone via quick run, and then call the switch service to turn off the watering for my vegetable_garden zone soon afterward (see example below), the quick run for the backyard_grass is canceled despite not being the zone I was intending to target with the command

service: switch.turn_off
data: {}
target:
  entity_id:
    - switch.vegetable_garden

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2024.7.3

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

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Integration causing the issue

Rachio

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https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/rachio/

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Example YAML snippet

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[brg468]

I’m confused. You have 2 zones running at the same time on the same controller?

edit: never mind, I see now what you’re doing is just to prove the point.

[brg468]

That is a limitation of the Rachio API. There is no way to turn off just one zone, the only option is to stop all watering on a controller. So every zone/schedule switch’s turn_off method calls stop_watering on the controller. I don’t think there’s any other way it can be done unless Rachio changes their API.

[mattmelgard]

Ah okay, that's unfortunate then, well, if it's a limitation of the API then I guess there's not much that can be done on this side.

Basically my use case here is that I have misters that run on my chicken coop and I'd like to be able to stop them at certain times of the day or based on temperature without interrupting any schedules happening elsewhere, and so I was running into this limitation due to that. I have a workaround though. Thanks for the assistance 👋.