Hello,
This post applies to more than just the sprinkler controller; it’s an app-wide issue when creating schedules. Last night I finally got around to setting up a sprinkler schedule, where I wanted to water the lawn Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday. When I selected the days of the week, the icons changed color from their default state. Much to my surprise, this morning (Wednesday) the lawn and sidewalk were wet.
I showed the app to my wife and she pointed out that the icons are green (with white text) or gray (with dark ?? text), and that the days I wanted the lawn watered had icons with gray backgrounds. So because the schedule comes up with all days enabled, I was disabling the days I wanted watering to occur.
I’m some kind of red-green color blind and usually I can figure things out, but this is pushing the limits for me. It would be awesome if the person responsible for Wyze’s UX and color scheme could take a few minutes and change how the “days of the week” schedule appears in the app.
Options:
- Either include a summary with the schedule that spells out exactly which days are active in the schedule.
- Use higher contrast between selected/deselected days of the week (really fade out the de-activated days)
- Use check mark boxes next to the days.
- Underline or put a box around the days that are active.
The colorblind community would great appreciate this.