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Brief · Water and garden
The garden and the pool, with the rest.
Irrigation and pool run on their own. In Lenou they know what the weather station saw and what the roof leaves over.
What it is
The garden's irrigation and the pool's controller usually run on their own, with an app of their own. They do not know it rained last night, nor when the sun on the roof gives a surplus.
In Lenou they sit next to the rest, with the house's weather station alongside.
What Lenou reads and controls
Rain Bird
A Rain Bird controller with an LNK or LNK2 Wi-Fi module, over the local network. No account.
- Reads
- Which zone runs, how long for, and a rain delay.
- Controls
- Start a zone for so many minutes, stop, and set a rain delay.
- Safe
- A zone is always started with its duration, so the controller ends it itself. A box that fails never leaves a zone open.
Hunter Hydrawise
Through Hunter's own cloud; this controller has no local API.
- Reads and controls
- Start and stop zones, and a rain delay.
- Limit
- Without internet Lenou can neither water nor stop here. The controller keeps to its own schedule. For a new installation, Rain Bird is the local choice.
Aseko ASIN AQUA
The pool controller sends its readings to a server of its choice; that server is Lenou.
- Reads
- Water temperature, pH, redox or free chlorine with their setpoints, flow, and whether it is dosing.
- Together
- Lenou can pass the raw data on unchanged to whoever else needs it, such as the Aseko cloud or a Home Assistant.
Pool controllers on MQTT
Controllers that speak MQTT themselves, such as a CCEI Tild, are read directly — and their light switched.
What that means in the app
- If the weather station on the roof saw rain, the irrigation knows.
- A pool pump is a device that can wait: the energy plan can put its hours in the sun.
- Garden and pool sit in the same app as the lights and the screens outside.
Honest limits
- Aseko is only read.
- Rain Bird does not know the zones' names; the installer gives them.
- Hydrawise depends on the internet.