I recently moved from a home with a Wi-Fi-enabled Nest Learning Thermostat to a home with a very old, very basic programmable temperature controller. Maybe it's because I regularly write about ...

So we have a sprinkler system that's run by an Hunter X-Core controller (4/6 channels in-use if that matters.) Normally, I have it set up to water every MWF for about 10m per "zone". When we go into ...