Stop all watering on a Rachio device, or pause and resume a single in-progress zone run
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Steps
To halt everything immediately, send PUT /public/device/stop_water with body {"id": "<deviceId>"} (the device's id, not a zone id).
To temporarily hold one running zone without cancelling its remaining runtime, send PUT /public/device/pause_zone_run with the device id and a duration in seconds (0-3600, up to 1 hour).
Resume the paused run with PUT /public/device/resume_zone_run using the same device id before the pause duration elapses; Rachio auto-resumes once the pause window lapses.
Verify state via GET /public/device/{id}/current_schedule, which reports whether a zone is actively running, paused, or idle.
If you only want to skip an upcoming scheduled run rather than stop something already running, use PUT /public/schedulerule/skip with the schedule rule's id instead.
Known gotchas
pause_zone_run/resume_zone_run act on the device's whole active queue, not an arbitrary zone id — you cannot selectively pause one zone while a second keeps running.
stop_water cancels the entire device's run, including manually started zones; there is no partial/selective stop scoped to a single zone id.
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