Madskier, I’d like to hear your review of the Rachio. What you say is very true – the yard investment is much higher.
1) Does the Rachio support rotator heads? I have 2 stations with them.
2) A concern I have (in addition to the ones listed above) is that all my stations water about the same amount of time. Before the current version a station with 1/2 GPH drippers ran the same time as my rotary heads. I even tried faking the soil, sun and spray head types in order to improve run times. It made little difference. Actually my drip lines are running less time now!

TIA,
tsp