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.
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API Evangelist profiles Rachio the way a machine reads it — 36 machine-readable artifacts across 10 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Rachio scores 57.8/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 30/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Rachio
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Rachio. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 8
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
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...
Rachio Lighting Service API
The LightingService API from Rachio — 28 operation(s) for lightingservice.
Rachio Program Service API
The ProgramService API from Rachio — 11 operation(s) for programservice.
Rachio Property Service API
The PropertyService API from Rachio — 3 operation(s) for propertyservice.
Rachio Public API
The Public API from Rachio — 21 operation(s) for public.
Rachio Summary Service API
The SummaryService API from Rachio — 1 operation(s) for summaryservice.
Rachio Valve Service API
The ValveService API from Rachio — 7 operation(s) for valveservice.
Rachio Webhook Service API
The WebhookService API from Rachio — 7 operation(s) for webhookservice.
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Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Rachio Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSEvent Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Rachio Webhooks
ASYNCAPISemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Rachio Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Rachio API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 21
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
CreateLightingProgramRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateLightingSceneRequest
JSON SCHEMACreatePlannedRunSkipOverridesResponse
JSON SCHEMACreateProgramV2Request
JSON SCHEMACreateSkipOverridesResponse
JSON SCHEMACreateWebhookRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateWebhookResponse
JSON SCHEMADeleteSkipOverridesRequest
JSON SCHEMAFindPropertyByEntityResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetPropertyResponse
JSON SCHEMAGetValveDayViewsRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetWebhookResponse
JSON SCHEMAListPropertiesResponse
JSON SCHEMAListWebhookEventTypesResponse
JSON SCHEMAListWebhooksResponse
JSON SCHEMAUpdateLightingProgramRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateLightingSceneRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateLightingZoneGroupRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateLightingZoneRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateProgramV2Request
JSON SCHEMAUpdateWebhookRequest
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 21 ·
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Rachio — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 9
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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