What we upgrade
Services & bundles.
Two entry tiers, two add-ons, one bundled all-in-one. The
intelligence layer — the policy packages that make the hardware
actually decide things — is the same across the family. We just
light up the modules you bought.
These bundles assume you already have a working HVAC system, a
functional sprinkler system with valves and wiring, and (for the pool
add-on) an existing pool. We swap cloud-locked
controllers and thermostats for local-control alternatives — or keep
what you already have if it's already Home Assistant-compatible.
We don't install the underlying systems.
Before you request an audit — two quick checks
- · Your sprinkler valves and wiring are functional. We're replacing the controller, not the field irrigation. If valves are stuck or wiring is corroded, that work happens before we arrive.
- · You have an existing sprinkler system — or you don't care about the irrigation parts of the bundle. We don't trench, lay pipe, or install new systems.
If any of these are unknowns, the audit sorts them out — free, no obligation.
Yard-Aware
$1,800 – $2,800
Entry tier — irrigation only, no HVAC. The water-bill answer for
Texas drought + watering restrictions. Available now.
- ·Raspberry Pi (HA OS) + Ecowitt GW2000B gateway.
- ·OpenSprinkler controller (replaces your Rachio / Hunter / Rain Bird).
- ·WH51 soil-moisture sensors placed by zone (typical: 3–6 sensors).
- ·Irrigation policy: water only when soil is dry, skip if rain forecast within 24h, hard-stop during city stage restrictions.
- ·Rain-skip is forecast-only without the outdoor weather station — upgrade to Core for real-time rain-rate triggers.
- ·Half-day install. Requires functional sprinkler valves + wiring.
Start with irrigation only — HVAC and pool can come later. The
Pi is already installed.
Backyard-Aware Core
$3,000 – $5,000
Intelligence on top of your existing HVAC. We replace your thermostat;
the rest of your HVAC system stays untouched.
- ·Raspberry Pi 5 with Home Assistant OS, Aeotec Z-Stick 10 Pro, UPS-friendly power setup.
- ·Honeywell T6 Pro Z-Wave thermostat — S2-paired, all stock schedules disabled.
- ·Ecowitt GW2000B gateway + WS90 outdoor station (haptic rain, no moving parts) + WH57 lightning detector + indoor multi-room sensors.
- ·HVAC policy package: room-delta compensation, dewpoint-driven dehumidification bias, lightning compressor-hold.
- ·Wall-tablet kiosk dashboard + mobile dashboard + HomePod severe-weather TTS.
- ·Walkthrough + 30 days of policy tuning included.
+ Irrigation Add-on
$900 – $2,200
Bolts onto Core. Replaces your existing sprinkler controller — requires functional valves and wiring.
- ·OpenSprinkler controller (replaces existing zone controller, reuses your valves and wiring).
- ·WH51 soil-moisture sensors placed by zone (typical: 3–6 sensors depending on yard topology).
- ·Full policy with real-time rain-rate triggers from your Core outdoor station, soil + forecast logic, and city-stage hard-stops.
- ·Per-zone budget targets and consumption tracking. Every override is logged.
+ Pool Temp Add-on
$299 at Core install · $449 standalone
Your pool talks to the rest of the house. A floating wireless
sensor in the water feeds live temperature into every dashboard
and arms a suite of automations.
- ·Ecowitt WN36 floating wireless sensor, paired to your Core gateway. No pool plumbing tap, no wiring — drop it in.
- ·Custom TTS alerts on threshold crossings — heater on, ready-to-swim, morning swim-readiness report.
- ·Storm-mode hold ties pool safety into the same lightning-aware logic that manages HVAC.
- ·Dashboard card with current temp + trend graph. All local — no pool-automation cloud account.
- ·Requires Backyard-Aware Core (uses its gateway).
Full Property-Aware Bundle
$4,500 – $8,500
Core + Irrigation + Pool, installed together in one visit.
A-la-carte across three separate visits adds up to roughly
$7,650 at the top of each
range — the bundle isn't a rounding-error discount. Most
full-bundle installs in Plano land between
$5,500 – $7,000 depending on
yard size, zone count, and existing wiring.
- ·Everything in Core, Irrigation, and Pool.
- ·Cross-module rules: lightning → HVAC mode-hold → irrigation pause → pool cover alert (when available).
- ·Per-property tuning of dewpoint thresholds, soil-moisture setpoints, and forecast trust.
- ·Roadmap upsells (IAQ, lights, security, solar-load HVAC bias) priced à la carte.
What the wall-tablet dashboard actually looks like
Live local data. Not a cloud API in the loop.
The Weather tab on the kiosk dashboard. Local-station conditions on
the left, animated RainViewer radar centered on your property,
hourly forecast for the next five hours, daily for the next five
days. Every current-conditions value comes from a sensor on your
property — temperature, humidity, dewpoint, wind, rain rate,
lightning strike count and distance. The radar layer and forecast
come from public NWS / met.no data, the only outside pulls the
system makes.
Our scope, plainly stated.
We swap cloud-locked thermostats and sprinkler controllers for
local-control alternatives, configure them, and add sensors. If
you already have hardware that's compatible with Home Assistant,
we'll work with what you have rather than make you buy a new one.
What we don't do: HVAC mechanical work (no refrigerant, no
ductwork, no equipment replacement), irrigation construction
(no trenching, no pipe, no valve installation), or pool equipment
installation. If you have a broken system that needs a contractor
first, we'll tell you at the audit — and we can usually point you
to someone.
Annual maintenance.
$180 – $400 / year
We come out once a year whether you ask or not.
Covers HA core + integration updates as the ecosystem moves, policy
tuning as seasons change, battery swaps, sensor replacements on
failure, and remote support when something is acting strange.
This is what keeps a $5,000 system from turning into a $5,000
doorstop when a dependency breaks eighteen months from now.
How an install actually goes.
- 01 Free audit. 30–45 minutes. We walk the property, check your HVAC + sprinkler system, ask what's annoying about your current setup. You get a written scope + fixed quote. No pressure.
- 02 Sign + 30% deposit. Texas-compliant scope-of-work contract. Hardware ordered same week.
- 03 Physical install (40%). Licensed handyman / irrigation tech handles the physical controller swap and sensor mounting. Scope is strictly replacement and mounting — no new construction, no surprises.
- 04 Configuration + testing (25%). Founder-owned. Policy packages tuned to your property. We test storm scenarios, dewpoint scenarios, soil-dry scenarios, and a full power-cut recovery.
- 05 Walkthrough + 5% retainage. Held 30 days. If anything misbehaves in the first month, we fix it before that payment lands.
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