Second beta of the 2026.7.0 line, still a pre-release for testing before the stable. It builds on v2026.7.0-beta0 with closed-loop watering, direct valve control, per-zone devices, and a batch of fixes.
Highlights
- 🪣 Closed-loop watering (#458, #626): the bucket can be credited from what was actually delivered, using a linked valve runtime or a cumulative volume meter, so missed or partial watering rolls over correctly.
- 🚰 Optional direct valve control: Smart Irrigation can open and close your valves itself (sequential or parallel), with valve-open confirmation and resilience across restarts.
- 📣 Irrigation events for reporting:
irrigation_started,irrigation_finishedandzone_problemevents, so you can build clean end-to-end notifications and reports. - ⏰ Start triggers and their events reworked and repaired: a single active start trigger, a clearer UI, and the start event fires reliably again.
- 🧩 Per-zone devices: each zone is now its own device with child entities (bucket, applied ET, ET deficiency, drainage, multiplier, last irrigation, water used), per-zone action buttons (calculate, reset bucket, irrigate now, reset usage), status binary sensors, and global hub buttons.
- 🎨 New Smart Irrigation logo and icon, self-served.
Fixes
- The reconfigured weather API key is now applied, stopping the 401 after a reconfigure.
- Pirate Weather precipitation converted from cm to mm.
- The bucket uses actual measured rain instead of the forecast daily total (#694).
- Entities are kept in the registry on unload, stopping duplicate sensors.
- The duration unique_id migration is now collision-proof.
- Unit annotations added to zone sensor attributes (#716), IU entity prefix corrected (#690), raw daily ET deficiency exposed per zone (#576).
Internal
- The coordinator was refactored into focused mixins (calculation, watering calendar, triggers, service handlers, skip conditions).
Trying the beta
This is a pre-release. In HACS, enable "show beta versions" on Smart Irrigation to receive it, then restart Home Assistant.
Acknowledgement
The closed-loop and observed-watering design is based on work from @JustChr's fork. Thank you for the idea and the groundwork.