Balboa Worldwide - Spa Control

Balboa Water Group

About this app

The Balboa Worldwide App (bwa™), is an app for your Android® device that allows you to access your hot tub via a direct connection anywhere in the local proximity of your tub, anywhere in your house that you can connect to your local WiFi network, or anywhere in the World you have an internet connection to your smart device via 3G, 4G, or WiFi hot spots.

With the bwa™ app, you can ensure that your hot tub will be ready whenever you want to take a dip. Instead of going outside and pressing buttons on the topside panel, the app lets you start the tub and change settings from your smartphone or tablet.

The App provides full interface control so you can set the temperature, turn pumps on and off and even set filtration cycles.

Ratings and reviews

We installed WiFi controller version 07 (latest) ourselves under $200 on Balboa controlled tub. Initilal setup is semi smooth, just ignore the message that it did not get connected. After that both the local and cloud connections are reliable, no issues with Android 8 phone. Main complains: The Menu does not have cancel option, once you hit it you need to reconnect. The lights on/off does not work with external light controller. It is just for controlling 2 pumps and temperature remotely.

I echo the other users. This is either a poor adaptation from one Android version to another or a poor attempt to port from IOS. I have this on some apple devices and it works great. Obviously not the same effort for Android. Cloud seems slightly more dependable fire connecting. Local is unusable. I'd almost rather go back to the old version.

It works, kind of. It connects locally(when your device is connected to the same network as the spa) about 25% of the time. And connects remotely(when you're away from home) about 10% of the time. When it does connect, it's only for a few seconds, 10 seconds at most. For me, its enough time to turn the temp up or down. But I have to do it 3 or 4 times because the temp setting dial is terrible. If there is another app I can use to connect to my spa, please let me know!!!

What’s new

We updated the BWA Spa Control app as often as possible to make it faster and more reliable for you.
-Bug fixes.