Discounted smart yard hardware and accessories
Rachio’s Yard Sale is a clearance collection for smart watering, soil testing, weather monitoring, and outdoor lighting hardware. It’s aimed at homeowners and installers shopping Rachio and partner products at reduced prices.
Agenticness = how independently a tool can take action, scored across 9 dimensions. Scored independently by David Kooi, Skylark Creations — see full rubric → Last re-evaluated 31 July 2026.
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What's happened with Rachio lately
- Score changeRubric upgrade v3_0 → v3.1: score 1/32 → 4/361 → 4/36(+3)
Rubric upgrade: agenticness v3.0 (8 dims, /32) → v3.1 (9 dims, /36). Adds Dim 9 (Operator Sovereignty), splits Dim 6 into 6a/6b lenses, tightens Dim 4 autonomous-retry distinction. Not a product change — score shift reflects new dimension + recalibrated rubric, not a change in the tool. Fanout suppressed.
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Rachio’s Yard Sale is a clearance collection for smart home and outdoor yard products, not an AI agent or software platform. The page groups discounted hardware such as sprinkler controllers, hose timers, weather stations, soil test kits, and...
This is a retail collection rather than an autonomous system, so it does not take actions on your behalf in the way an AI agent would. The most agentic items in the collection are the connected yard devices themselves: for example, the smart hose...
Responds to prompts but takes no autonomous action.
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- Free: No free product tier is described.
- Paid: Clearance items are sold individually; examples shown include Smart Hose Timer from $99.99, MySoil Test Kit from $34.99, Tempest Weather System from $339.00, and Smart Lighting Controller (3-Pack) at $999.00.
- Enterprise: Not publicly available.
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