Register a Rachio webhook to receive real-time irrigation and Smart Hose Timer events, and verify the HMAC signature
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Steps
Send POST https://cloud-rest.rach.io/webhook/createWebhook (note: a different host than the api.rach.io public REST base) with body {"resourceId": {"deviceId" or "valveId": "<id>"}, "url": "<https endpoint>", "eventTypes": [...] }, choosing event types that match the resource type.
Call GET /webhook/listWebhookEventTypes first to confirm currently valid event type names for your resource, since Rachio periodically adds new types.
Each delivered event POST body includes eventId, eventType, payload, resourceId, resourceType, and timestamp; use eventId to de-duplicate retried deliveries.
Verify authenticity by recomputing HMAC-SHA256 over the exact received JSON body (minified, keys alphabetically sorted) using your Rachio API token as the shared secret, and compare it to the incoming x-signature header.
Register at most 10 webhooks per resource; a webhook that fails to receive 10 consecutive events in a row is automatically deleted by Rachio.
Known gotchas
Webhook management endpoints live on cloud-rest.rach.io while most controller/zone endpoints live on api.rach.io — mixing them up is a common integration bug.
On 5xx from your endpoint, Rachio retries the POST up to 5 times; persistent failures silently delete the webhook after 10 failed deliveries with no explicit notice.
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