Authenticate to the Rachio public API with a personal API token and retrieve a person's devices and zone list
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Steps
In the Rachio mobile app, open the profile icon, then select "API key -> Copy" to obtain a personal bearer token; Rachio has no separate self-serve developer portal for this token.
Call GET https://api.rach.io/1/public/person/info with header Authorization: Bearer <token> to get your person id.
Call GET https://api.rach.io/1/public/person/{id} to retrieve the full Person object, which embeds each Device, and each Device embeds its Zone and ScheduleRule arrays.
Parse each Device's zones[] entries for zoneNumber, id (the unique zone id used by ZoneService calls), name, and enabled.
Cache the returned ids locally instead of re-fetching the whole person/device tree before every zone action, since the account-wide call budget is limited.
Known gotchas
The personal token is obtained only through the mobile app UI, not an OAuth flow; Rachio notes commercial integrations should instead request its separate oAuth API via support.
The public API is rate limited to about 1,700 calls per account per day (just over 1/minute average) — aggressive polling returns errors.
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