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How a run is sized: the scheduling model, cycle-and-soak pacing, and the seasonal water budget. The thresholds that skip a run live on Skip rules.

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How the engine sizes and shapes the runs it dispatches: the scheduling model, cycle-and-soak pacing and the seasonal water budget. Skip thresholds live on the Skip rules page.

Scheduling model

Which model sizes and schedules smart-morning runs. Weekly splits each zone's weekly target into sessions spaced across the week. Soil waters each zone when its own soil deficit crosses the trigger and refills it, so cadence follows soil texture and roots instead of a session count.

How runs are sized for zones with no pin of their own. Soil follows each zone's own deficit; Weekly splits a fixed target into sessions.

Every zone waters by its own soil deficit unless it pins the weekly model.

Cycle and soak

When a zone's sprinklers apply water faster than the soil absorbs it, the run is split into short cycles with soak pauses between them so the water sinks in instead of running off.

Shortest pause between a zone's cycles. LocalSky already sets each from how fast the soil drains; raise it only if your surface needs longer. 5-120 minutes.
5 min

Water budget

The trust dial. Scales every zone's run depth up or down without touching the per-zone math, like the seasonal-adjust on a commercial controller. 100% is the computed amount; dial down in a wet, cool stretch and up in a heat wave.

Percent of the computed depth, 50-150%. Applied before the per-zone cap.
100%

Every run waters the computed depth.