Rachio

Rachio makes smart, WiFi-connected irrigation controllers, Smart Hose Timers and lighting controllers for homes and landscapes. The Rachio Public API lets developers read a person's account, controllers (devices) and irrigation zones, start and stop watering, manage fixed and Flex (weather-adjusted) schedules, set rain delays, and subscribe to real-time webhook events for schedule and zone activity. Requests authenticate with an OAuth2 bearer token retrieved from the Rachio mobile app; the Controller and User API is served at https://api.rach.io/1 and newer product surfaces at https://cloud-rest.rach.io, with a quota of 3,500 requests per day per token.

Rachio publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Smart Home, IoT, Irrigation, and Home Automation.

The Rachio catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Rachio’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, authentication, and 16 more developer resources.

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41.3/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 37/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanySmart HomeIoTIrrigationHome AutomationWater ManagementWebhook

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 41.3/100 · developing

Contract Quality 11.3 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 11.8 / 20

Access Clarity 6.3 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.8 / 13

Contract Governance 0.5 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 37/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rachio Public API

REST API for Rachio smart irrigation controllers, Smart Hose Timers and lighting controllers: read people, devices and zones; start/stop watering; manage schedules and rain dela...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Rachio MCP Server

Candidate MCP server tool surface derived from the documented Rachio Public API operations. Rachio does not publish an official hosted/remote MCP server; this is a governance st...

MCP SERVER

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Webhooks

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Lifecycle

Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: rachio
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/rachio.png
name: Rachio
description: Rachio makes smart, WiFi-connected irrigation controllers, Smart Hose Timers and lighting controllers for homes
  and landscapes. The Rachio Public API lets developers read a person's account, controllers (devices) and irrigation zones,
  start and stop watering, manage fixed and Flex (weather-adjusted) schedules, set rain delays, and subscribe to real-time
  webhook events for schedule and zone activity. Requests authenticate with an OAuth2 bearer token retrieved from the Rachio
  mobile app; the Controller and User API is served at https://api.rach.io/1 and newer product surfaces at https://cloud-rest.rach.io,
  with a quota of 3,500 requests per day per token.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rachio/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
- slow-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Smart Home
- IoT
- Irrigation
- Home Automation
- Water Management
- Webhook
tags_raw:
- Company
- Smart Home
- IoT
- Irrigation
- Home Automation
- Water Management
- Webhooks
apis:
- name: Rachio Public API
  description: 'REST API for Rachio smart irrigation controllers, Smart Hose Timers and lighting controllers: read people,
    devices and zones; start/stop watering; manage schedules and rain delays; subscribe to webhook events.'
  humanURL: https://rachio.readme.io/reference/getting-started
  baseURL: https://api.rach.io/1
  tags:
  - Irrigation
  - IoT
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Irrigation
  - IoT
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://rachio.readme.io/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://rachio.readme.io/reference/getting-started
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://rachio.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://rachio.readme.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://rachio.readme.io/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://rachio.readme.io/reference/getting-started
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://rachio.readme.io/reference/getting-started
- type: Support
  url: https://support.rachio.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://rachio.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://rachio.com/products
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://rachio.com/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://rachio.com/privacy-policy
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/rachio-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/rachio-conventions.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/rachio-rate-limits.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/rachio-webhooks.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/rachio-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/rachio-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/rachio-lifecycle.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/rachio-packages.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/rachio-conformance.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/rachio-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/rachio-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/rachio-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 16
  pass: local-v1