Orbit 21207 B-hyve Smart Hose Watering Timer (Gen 2) 4-Pack with Wi-Fi Hub and Hose Y Splitter, Gray

I love this product! set it up and forget it! no troubles at all during installations. features are limitless. I would say even too much., I end up using only basic on/off schedule. measuring feature is excellent indicator of usage. after a while I realised that I was over watering. for my application I needed no more than 5-10 min a day. One line has 20+ flowers in pots on the deck so Im doing 5 minutes but twice a day. Notification to skip watering due to coming rain is great. make sure but a good quality batteries - you do not want to miss watering.

Really need to take your time to set up and verify that this will work how and where you and it to. Definitely test several times in the desired location as one of the controllers malfunctioned several times failing to turn off. After replacing with fresh batteries it seems to work fine now.

Arrived ahead of time but on opening all timers have a USA thread so do not fit uk threads

I purchased two Orbit B-hyve Gen 2 4-port hose timer kits, so I have over $450 invested in this system. Unfortunately, they have been one of the most frustrating smart home products I have ever owned. The timers are only about 20 feet from the hub, yet they constantly lose connectivity. Bluetooth is unreliable too. There have been plenty of times when I was standing just a couple feet away and still had trouble connecting. At this point, I honestly don't know if the problem is the timers, the hub, the cloud service, or the app. To make matters worse, my B-hyve irrigation controller also loses connection regularly and needs to be power cycled. I had excellent luck with the Gen 1 products, which is why I bought into the Gen 2 system. The Gen 1 units were reliable. These are not. The app is a mess. It frequently says devices are offline when they are actively running. Other times it can't connect, yet the watering is happening anyway. Status updates are delayed, fail to refresh, or simply don't reflect reality. You can never be sure if what you're seeing in the app is accurate. The biggest issue is trust. With a watering system, reliability is everything. I need to know that watering schedules will start when they're supposed to and stop when they're supposed to. After months of connectivity problems and app glitches, I simply don't trust this system anymore. Before anyone blames my network, I have dozens of smart devices on my property that operate without a single issue. Cameras, switches, sensors, and other Wi-Fi devices all work flawlessly. The B-hyve products are the only devices that constantly disconnect. I'm now past the return period, so I'm stuck with a very expensive system that I can't rely on. Based on my experience, I cannot recommend the Gen 2 products. Had I known the reliability would be this poor, I would have chosen a different brand or a completely different solution instead.

Returned it because one of the connectors was bad and I couldn’t attach hose. Only had it for a couple weeks Apart from that it seemed fine. I got the linktap instead because Google AI said it was much more robust, however the hose connectors seem like same material.