I'm doing some homework on replacement sprinkler controllers that can monitor
the weather locally in one way or another (to reduce water consumption among
other reasons).. I currently am not interested in any of the brands that
monitor via a subscription service from satellites/radio/internet (~$50/year).
The three I've narrowed down my interest in are as follows (all use their own
hardware to determine "weather") :

1. Aqua Conserve's Controller (ET-6 or higher)
2. Weatherset's Controller - (www.weatherset.com)
3. Smartline controller by Weathermatic - (www.smartline.com)

I've found some review material (see link below) for the first two that was
dated about 2 years ago and I realize that while neither review was overly
great, I suspect that firmware/software upgrades may have been done since
then to update their algorithms to work better. I spoke w/ Andy at the
Weatherset company and he seemed helpful/knowledgeable but it's a pretty
small shop from what I can tell and that controller got a bum review in the
above mentioned report for keeping the lawn/garden too dry (at that time)
but am willing to find out if that issue has been resolved (but haven't
asked yet).

Anyway, I really like the featureset on the Smartline controller, but can't
would prefer some feedback from real users of any of these items and how they
perform.

So -- have any of you here used any of the above controllers?

Here the link to the review mentioned above :
http://www.plantbiology.ucr.edu/docu...management.pdf

Here's another review that seems to have better comments :
http://www.usbr.gov/waterconservatio...r%20report.pdf

TIA!