Rain Bird ESP-ME3 Basic Programming

Learn how to set the date and time, set watering start times, set station run times, and set watering days on the Rain Bird ESP-ME3 irrigation controller.

[thankyoujesus]

It looks like other people might be having the same problem I am...After it goes through a whole cycle of all zones it runs through it again. How can we stop that?

[garkhanon]

This would be better without the music.

[BarbaraPoteet]

How do you CLEAR ALL previous schedules?

[donkleinhans]

What would cause our new timer control box to restart cycles a second time on the same day hours later. We have checked and confirmed all settings are correct?

[debraearl]

It's not clear how to use the different start times and exactly how you can connect them with different zones to have some zones start at different times then others. Or is that even possible - I'm trying unsuccessfully to figure that out.

[thomasjacques]

How do I an EVERY OTHER DAY schedule? Or even EVERY THIRD DAY?

[kangsusuh]

Question for the watering day setting, do we have to pick one or the other between specific calendar days vs cyclic days? Or, do both apply? So if I have Mon-Sun on “on” for all of the days and cyclic set to water every three days, I thought it’d cycle every three days through the days I have enabled but since my sprinkler went off this morning... I’m guessing this is not the case?

[robertvelazquez]

Is it possible to run a zone with 3 valves running once a day and another zone to run 4 times a day where I reseeded a specific area?

[smathers]

what happens if you have 12 stations. Do you do station 1-6 on program A then station 7-12 on program B?
Say you want each station to run 15 minutes does that mean when in Run Times for Program A you set 1-6 for 15 and 7-8 for 0 and when in program B you set Run Times for 1-6 to be 0 mins and 7-8 for 15 mins?
Your demo only deals with one program or 6 or less stations and the printed user guide is no better at explaining what happens if you have more than 6 stations. Advice is greatly appreciated as stations 1 through to 13 are not running in sequence even though start times have been entered so that they should.

[billjames]

I can not clear the manual watering ICON. why ? Is it suppose to go away when not needed ? It has locked my unit to only run in manual. WTF

[bernarditadelacarrera]

Aparece un dibujo en el lado derecho inferior del progranador como de rulos horizontales....que es?
No he podido alguna conexion mala?

[orainemckoy]

How do u get all stations to work at the same time?

[nporpes]

Hallo mein Bester,
ich habe mir RAIN BIRD ESP -TM2 (Mit Knopf) gekauft.
Ich habe nur zwei wasser ventiele. benutze ich nur den A und B.
Wie mache ich das in Program A ein mal am tag Gießen solte in Blumen feld 1, 45 min . und an den gleichen Tag in Feld 2 Beume Gießen solte in Program B 45 min.
Aber am nächsten Tag die selbe Spiel aber pro feld 30 min.
Danke

[PeterTraver]

what is a program? This tutorial is much too vague to be helpful. You start right off by talking about a program, what is a program? Terrible tutorial.