The best smart controller in Texas is the one that keeps time when the app is down and still obeys your utility. Features that stack weather skips will brown a lawn under a restriction and look “smart” while they do it.
What we care about on a truck
- Station count with a spare
- Physical rain sensor terminals
- A manual panel that works without a phone
- Wi-Fi that actually reaches the garage
- Seasonal adjust a human can find
What we ignore in ads
Satellite weather theater. If you cannot see the yard, a skip algorithm is a coin flip.
Install path: controller service.
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Related: How to Winterize a Sprinkler System in Texas, Sprinkler Repairs in Round Rock, TX, What a Licensed Texas Irrigator Is Allowed to Do (and What That Means on Your Invoice). Services: all services. Areas: service areas. Cities in this piece: Austin, Plano, Sugar Land.
Parent service page: Timer & Controller Repairs.
How we actually run this job
On the truck this is still isolation before dirt, a written option before extra parts, and a legal watering window after the hardware works. Texas clay, caliche, and city mains punish skipped steps. If a national checklist contradicts your utility, the utility wins.
If you are comparing cities, use the local page rather than this article alone — soil and freeze risk change at the county line. The service menu is here and the area list is here.
Need it fixed, not diagnosed over email? Call 888-427-5022 or use the contact page.
Texas context we will not skip
Gulf clay, Blackland prairie, and Edwards rock do not share a repair script. A wet spot in Houston is not a freeze crack in Dallas, and a SAWS stage day is not a MUD watering window in Katy. We write those constraints because they change the parts on the truck and the program we leave on the clock.
If this article is about a part, still run isolation before you buy a case of that part. If it is about a city, still open the valve box before you trench the first damp patch. If it is about a clock, still measure the solenoid. That order is the whole business.
Call 888-427-5022. Use the contact page if you need a gate code on the ticket. Hub pages: services, service areas, blog.