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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38.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 46/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanySmart HomeIoTIrrigationHome AutomationWater ManagementWebhooks

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 38.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 5.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 13.5 / 20

Commercial Clarity 6.3 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.8 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 9.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 46/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 12 / 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

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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.yml

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: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- 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
  - 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