RAINPOINT Sprinkler Timer WiFi Water Timer, Smart Hose Timer, WiFi Sprinkler Controller Automatic Watering System Irrigation Water Valve, APP & Voice Control, Weather-based Auto Rain Delay, For Garden

Original Review: This is a good product with excellent technical support. Jane even answered my email on a Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately, it is quite restrictive in its watering cycles. I wanted to water 10 minutes every hour. The RainPoint app cannot do this. On the mist setting the maximum it can water is 59 seconds with a maximum interval (time between misting) of 15 minutes and 59 seconds. On irrigation mode you can water for a maximum of 11 hours and 59 minutes, so I could have set 10 minutes but there are only 3 programs, so I could only do it for 3 hours per day. I don't understand why the app is so restricted. Surely the app programmer can write a more comprehensive set of choices. A nice product but unfortunately it will not work for me.Updated Review: I am increasing my rating from 3 to 5 stars. RainPoint has an upgraded app called HomGar that comes with some of their newer models. When I swapped my original model (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GC1BSG8) for a newer model (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C332DJ2F), I was able to do everything I wanted with the upgraded HomGar app.The HomGar app is far more flexible than the RainPoint app that came with the original unit I purchased. The misting time (how long it mists for) and the interval (time between mists) are both from 0 to 60 minutes (e.g. you can mist for 16 minutes and 34 seconds, then wait for 58 minutes and 27 seconds before misting again). You can run the misting program (duration) for up to 12 hours per day (in one-minute increments) or you can stop watering by water usage. You can repeat every day, odd days, even days or customize (e.g. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday). Irrigation mode allows you to set the start time, watering duration time (or water usage amount with maximum watering time) and repeat schedule. You can have up to 6 plans total (e.g. 2 mist and 4 irrigation plans). Just slide to the left to delete any previously installed plan. You can also use the app to set alerts for specific values of temperature and humidity.The hub display that comes with the new unit is excellent (see the photo). It displays weather forecast (you need to set your location in the app and if you want just today's weather or alternating between today's and tomorrow's), current UV level, time, date, inside and outside temperature and humidity, next water time, and last water usage amount. It also has a very useful automatic backlight setting, so you can have it brighter (a sliding brightness scale) during the day and darker at night (set by time of day). It does need to be plugged in at all times - the batteries are just for backup.I believe the hub's outside temperature and humidity are captured from the internet (along with the weather forecast and UV level), so there is less need for a thermo-hygrometer sensor, but you can add one if you want one (HCS014ARF), as well as a soil moisture sensor (HCS021FRF) and a water flow meter (HCS008FRF). Everything can be connected through the HomGar app.Videos are available for installing each of the sensors as well as the main units (hub and timer). I didn’t need any of them as the Wi-Fi connected easily and the HomGar app is fairly easy to use. The app did warn me that my phone was connected to a 5 GHz network and only 2.4 GHz was supported (I have a dual band router) but I just told it to continue, and it connected to the 2.4 GHz network without issue.I particularly liked the quality of the main units. The hub is bright, clear and colorful. The faucet timer is sturdy and connected without leaking (see the photo). Brass would have been nicer than plastic but that would just raise the price of the unit and the plastic is working fine. The faucet timer does reduce water pressure, but this seems to be an issue with every timer that I’ve read about or used. The manual says the unit comes with a 3 year warranty but my package had an insert with a 5 year warranty card if you emailed your order number to RainPoint. As I said in my original review, their technical/customer support is excellent.I found the charting features (called charts on the hub page but statistics on the timer page) that come with the HomGar app somewhat helpful. The hub charts indoor temperature, humidity and air pressure in 24-hour, 10 day, or max increments. The timer charts water usage in daily or monthly increments.There were a few minor issues with the manuals (grammatical and other) but I did not find it distracted from the ability to operate the product. For example, the water timer manual talks about a "Cycle & Soak" mode on the home page that doesn't exist. Apparently, it is now called "Mist".Overall, I couldn’t be more pleased with the new unit and the HomGar app. I fully recommend this product to anyone needing an automatic, Wi-Fi enabled water timer.

This was only a little more expensive than a non-wifi timer from Home Depot, and is well worth it in my books. I used this for a vacation property that we sometimes rent out as an airbnb, so we might not be there for several weeks, and we just had new privacy trees planted so we need to keep those babies watered.Why did I feel the need to switch from a regular timer and find a wifi solution? Last year we had a normal (non-wifi timer) but it rained a lot so it was really a waste of water and $$ on our water bill. Being able to both check the weather and manually delay watering and/or set an automatic rain delay when rain is detected in the zip code is very cool, and I get peace of mind that it IS working when I get the notifications to my phone each time the irrigation turns on and off, so I don't need to be concerned about my trees or second guess that something has gone wrong while I am out of town and have nightmares that my new trees are slowly withering away... It is obviously also a win environmentally.Following the instructions, it was super easy to set up and get on the wifi. Less than 5 minutes. The app itself is not perfect but pretty clean and easy to use overall. Setting up the auto rain delay was a little more complicated (and I think it helps if you understand if/then logic - it was clearly designed by programmers and I think could be a little more user friendly, but just READ THE INSTRUCTIONS [unlike my other half] and you'll be ok.)The unit itself seems to have a good seal with no leaks when it's screwed on the spigot and can withstand the pressure of the water from the spigot (with one note - see below).We've had it attached and going three times a week for 3 months and the battery still shows full, so this should last us the full summer at least.The product also came with a free 5-year warranty if you register it. I don't think it says this in the product description on Amazon, but when it arrived the box included a card with an extended 5-year warranty. (In contrast, the non-wifi timer I got from Home Depot for $40 last summer has already had half the screen already stop working...)Overall, a really good experience with this product and would highly recommend! Just just three things worth noting for potential users:1. I have this attached to a splitter -- one half of the splitter feeds this timer (and it's open all the time), and the other half of the splitter can be turned on if someone needs the hose. When we first bought this, after a few weeks, the pressure of the hose blew the timer off the splitter so the spigot was going full blast with nothing attached! We are grateful our neighbor turned it off. I replaced the original plastic splitter with a brass splitter that has a deeper thread and we were back in business with no issues since.2. I sometimes get random alerts to my phone which don't relate to actual activity on the timer. I contacted customer service and they were very responsive and came back to me within hours. They suggested offloading the app and dis/reconnecting the timer hub from my account which should debug it. Waiting to see if this does the trick, but it's not the worst thing in the world in the scheme of things. Not worth NOT buying this product if this is the worst trouble I've had.3. There is no option to set the timer for every second day, only specific days of the week. This means that there will be at least one time a week when the trees get watered two days in a row or have two days with no water. Again, a bit annoying, but not the worst. Based on feedback from the customer service people, it sounds like this is being addressed in future versions of the product/app updates, but again I wouldn't consider this enough of a reason not to buy this product.I rarely write reviews, but after doing quite a lot of research on wifi timers and relying heavily on the reviews, I thought I should add my experience so I hope this helps others!