I am interested in hearing if there is something in particular that is preventing you from using the two systems at the same time without intercommunication between them. I do not have Flume (personally waiting for a model, with power over Ethernet support, I can leave berried in the yard) so I do not know the challenges you are otherwise left with regarding irrigation controllers. My advice? Buy a $100 flow meter and dedicate it to your irrigation controller, let Flume worry about your whole house and rachio about your yard.
Points of failure is thereby doubled, whereas if anything goes wrong in this chain you may end up with a large water bill regardless of protection you’ve expected. Integration with something like Flume is that even though both devices are local to you, they cannot talk directly to each-other. Let me emphasize this, leak detection is performed by your controller locally (unless something has changed that I’m not aware of), in case a leak is detected, your controller tells the server about it, rather than the other way around. If something goes wrong with local wifi, ISP, Rachio servers, etc, your controller will still be able to run a scheduled watering and monitor for leaks when combined with a supported flow meter. Rachio was always careful not to make internet connectivity a must for normal operation. Big issue with supporting online connected sensors is that leak detection will not work offline.
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