Orbit B-hyve 8-Zone Indoor Mounted Smart Wi-Fi Sprinkler Controller Expired

Dang, I've got 9 zones, and it's two of these, or $110 for the 10-zone.

nope. it has a bluetooth mode if wifi is down you can connect to it with. If you can remember how when you go to need it. Stick with a local interface unit, i'm just telling you there are conveniences but there will be times when this bites you in the !@!@ and you're in a hurry and either the app acts up, your phone acts up, you can't find your phone or you don't have it on you or it needs updating,which is pretty much constant these days (although not this particular app as i don't think it's been updated in like 5 years) if however you're not a busy person and have time to f with that stufff....

Pick your poison.....more times than not i've found these worse than the issues with non smart (and yes i had this unit).

I use it indoors to cool off after reading every sarcastic comment posted on the internet

Thanks good to know. I was looking at this to put in at my father in laws house, so I could help him remotely. But if his internet is out and I can't walk him through anything manual then it's gonna suck lol.

it can work when internet is down for several days, right?

I here ya loud and clear. I have a place an older family member stays. They couldn't remember heat/cool auto and i got tired of explaining it over phone. I put a nest in there (not my preference but just one i grabbed on whim at store that day, no time to order),

I just tossed it 7 months later. "it's offline". i go over, it's offline. i restart. offline. no wifi. Ok use 'app to setup wifi" wtf wifi ok

then It tells me something is wrong, "you must set it up from scratch". Now keep this in mind....

you have to pull it from the wall and scan the barcode each attempt to readadd it to the horrible 3rd world google home app. You also must assume you even remember your wires from 7 months ago. After readding it, app crashing and it not blowing cool (and yes wires were selected in 'app' correctly

i got tired of putzing with it, ran down to depot, installed a basic for 25 bucks, problem solved and i'm out the door.

The bhyve works ok, there are app bugs never solved, they stopped developing it i'm sure years ago. Seeing when you watered and times is not reliable. The concept doesn't work in micro climates where like in FLA it may rain across the street and not yours. Remote control does work ok. App gets really wonky when you get out of wifi range, very irritating. You also want to make sure app doesn't get off loaded. All of the password resets for these things throw that in there.

In the end i sold it with the place and at new place have plain jane hunter with remote.

You really don't want to be hands off, you gotta go out and check heads, brown spots coverage, leaks. Other things something hands off like orbit is you assume it's correct that you watered. It doesn't mean your valve is actually working. There's no valve feed back intelligence there. You can think you've been watering for a month and have a whole zone out.

Aside from the remote i didn't find it all that useful as had to double check it anyways.,..probably work just fine in some limited use cases, very small lots no micro climates,etc

nope. it has a bluetooth mode if wifi is down you can connect to it with. If you can remember how when you go to need it. Stick with a local interface unit, i'm just telling you there are conveniences but there will be times when this bites you in the !@!@ and you're in a hurry and either the app acts up, your phone acts up, you can't find your phone or you don't have it on you or it needs updating,which is pretty much constant these days (although not this particular app as i don't think it's been updated in like 5 years) if however you're not a busy person and have time to f with that stufff....

Pick your poison.....more times than not i've found these worse than the issues with non smart (and yes i had this unit).