To keep your garden blooming beautifully all summer long, your lawn lush and green, and your vegetables thriving, proper irrigation is essential. With the right irrigation controller, you can even manage watering through Apple Home. And with the right workflow and Hub Mode in Controller for HomeKit, manual watering becomes a thing of the past. In this step-by-step guide, we’ll show you how it works.
Start Event
Plants should be watered early in the morning or late in the evening, when temperatures are cooler, evaporation is lower, and there’s no risk of scorching the plants. That’s why we add a “Scheduled Time” as the start event, set the date and time to a point in the future when the workflow should run for the very first time - for example, 5:00 AM the next day. Then, tap the start event again and set a repeat interval of every two days.
Steps
Add a "Control Accessory" Step
Add a “Control Accessory” step, select your irrigation controller, and set it to turn on.
Add a "Notification" Step
Optionally, you can add a notification to let you know that watering has started.
Add a Wait Step
Add a "Wait" step with a 10-minute delay.
Add a "Control Accessory" Step
Add another “Control Accessory” step, select the irrigation controller again, and this time set it to turn off.
Add a "Notification" Step
After watering has stopped, you can optionally add another notification to let you know it’s finished.
Tip: You can duplicate individual steps by tapping the icon on the left.
Final Overview
Every other day at 5:00 AM, your garden will be automatically watered for ten minutes. To make sure everything runs smoothly, you’ll receive a notification both when watering starts and when it stops.
