B-hyve

B-hyve

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About this app

With its advanced technology, the B-hyve Smart Sprinkler app allows you to remotely monitor and manage your irrigation system from anywhere using your smartphone or tablet. This allows you to easily adjust watering schedules, set up custom watering zones, and even receive notifications when there are any issues or changes to your system. Plus, B-hyve’s Wi-Fi enabled smart watering devices are EPA WaterSense® labeled, so you can save money on your water bills while still maintaining a lush, healthy lawn and garden. When set and left in smart watering mode, B-hyve can save users as much as 50% more water over a traditional controller.

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Ratings and reviews

The timer itself seems to work okay but my experience with the app has been negative. The device loses bluetooth connection with my phone once I go inside. This is probably why the company designed an addtional piece of equipment, called the Hub, to boost connection. you can purchase this for $30. It's the typical business model of today. Design a product with limited capabilities then up-charge for add ons. Man, consumers are stupid. Uninstalled app.

I've had nothing but problems with this device for the last few months. I have two xr 8 zone timers, which both lost connection to the network recently. after trying over and over again I finally got them reconnected which only failed 2 weeks later. I can connect to Bluetooth every time. I have to do a power Cycle to get him to wake back up. what's interesting is one of them is flashing an error code saying it can't connect to the network yet the app says it's connected to the network.

The app works great but it never sends a push notification when the batteries are running low. This led to me not noticing my flowers hadn't been watered in almost a month and they died. The rain delay also doesnt work well. Ideally, it should re-initiate the watering program as soon as it notices it didn't actually rain in my area. Instead it delays for 24-hours. This has led to multiple days of not watering my plants. If/when these gets fixed, I would update my rating to five stars.

What’s new

Bug fixes and performance optimizations.