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

I used 3 of these on a 4 way hose splitter for a summer so far and they worked well for me. In the bhyve app each one is listed as another system. You don’t have the option to group multiples together into a system with multiple zones like the more permanent installed systems but once I figured that out they were a pleasure to use.

We have an underground sprinkler system, but there are still areas not served well by that system, like a hose-fed drip line in our raised vegetable beds. I also hate walking halfway around the house to turn on the faucets.I added two of these timers to each of two faucets. The faucets are on opposite corners of the house. Although the wi-fi signal is strong at both faucets, I had to buy an additional wi-fi hub (Part #: 21027 $39.99) to get the coverage needed. I placed each hub in an indoor location, as close as possible to the faucet it would control. After adding the second hub, all is working well.

This is perfect for the DIY Gardner, I was able to creat my own above ground sprinkler system that I can control from my phone.

Does the job but the app is terrible.It will skip watering when it rain but I can't figure out how to tune that properly or adjust watering based on humidity and temperature. Another non sense is that it skip watering when its windy... why?1 year update:This thing is good enough that I can trust it to keep my plants alive when I'm away. I've gave up on using any of their smart feature. The app is just incomprensible. Is it possible that the app got worst since last summer? Hard to tell.At the beginning of the season I had to delete the device and the hub from the app and re-pair everything to get them to work. I got stuck into a loop updating the firmware at some point and almost give up assuming the device was dead but it finally worked. It was a good 45 minutes of tinkering to get it to work again.

Constantly traveling and therefore have to always ask neighbors or others to fill my pool periodically. Especially during the summer when the water evaporates quicker than usual. I have to make sure the pumps don't burn out on low water and the pool companies won't fill it either.This device works great for that purpose. I am already a user of the Bhyve sprinkler system which is fantastic and saves me money on watering. This new Orbit device/timer works great and integrates easily into the Bhyve app.Combined with a video camera I purchased online to watch the water levels, I can now water from anywhere in the world with an internet connection or put it on a timer with the app to do it automatically. I choose to do it manually with the app for now. You have to configure it with a watering Zone and put a timer on the refill if you wish or you can use the app to water for a specific amount of time. In addition, if you review the history on the device through the app, you will see how much water it uses and the gallons per minutes as the water flows. I now know that to top off my pool it uses 256 gallons.I included a picture and I bought a sturdy short metal hose (since in the hot sun all day, I don't trust rubber hoses or those cheap plastic pool refillers) and strapped it to a scrap wood I got from a hardware store that had a groove on it that the hose fit easily into. I screwed the wood down into a space where the caulking is on the side of the pool. I connected the device to my outdoor spigot that already has a watering timer on it for my shrubs so had to get a Y connector to add this device as you can see on the picture.But it's easy, I set the timer for 50 minutes when my water is low and hit start and it goes and even alerts me when it is done. I also intend to set it up on a zone/timer within the app to automatically fill the pool once a week. With my plants now on a water timer and my pool, I can now travel worry free and don't have to bug anybody to help with watering anything.Thank you Orbit, this is a great product! I have some suggestions though:1. Please integrate your products with Smartthings or the smart homes standards like Zigbee or others. It's too late for you to have your own home standard and your niche is to small so please do right by your customers so they can control your products optionally without using your app. Because of the control your app is needed, but make so we can work with other standards like Matter or Zigbee, please.2. Please make an indoor watering system for indoor plants and tie it to your app. It's right up your alley, re water and such and maybe a low margin item but you can sell thousands and thousands of them. You have outdoor irrigation products, make them for indoor as well.3. Long term I plan to hire a plumber and put a permanent wireless timer on my built in water refill in place of this but this works great in the meantime. I wish there was a device that alerted me wirelessly when the water was too low in the pool.Thanks for reading this review, this product is great! Good luck doing your project.Update: Finally placed one of these on my main line that goes into my pool. Makes it better since nothing external to go wrong. I also put it on the app for timed watering, so set it and forget it. Just have to be aware of when it rains because you can set this so that it doesn't open when it rains but you need to know how much it rains and impacts filling you pool, so you still have to keep an eye on it periodically. Video cameras work great for this if you travel.