90205Z B-hyve Gen 2 Smart Hose Watering Timer

Ease of use: the app connects with Bluetooth and requires a little work to figure out how to program and change the program. Once you’ve set your program you can easily change days of the week, watering minutes and time of day. You can also water manually directly from the app without changing the program. Reliability: it has never failed - it warned me when a battery replacement was necessary. I have had to replace the battery once since purchasing it. Accuracy: to the minute. Always.

Great product, I love the app very customizable. The install was super simple

I've been using 6 of these for 2 years now. If you are still here, I beg you, get something different, these are extremely unreliable, and hard and annoying to program if you have more than one in the same location. My story over the 2 years: 1. They lose connection frequently, even though they have good signal and fresh batteries. When they are disconnected, they do not run the scheduled programs (i.e. the programs need to be triggered remotely, they are not on device). 2. The scheduled programs sometimes just stop running. Manual runs work fine, but scheduled programs don't. Support will tell you to reset the connection, etc, but - I found that if you simply add a new program, the new program runs fine, the old one does not. So the programs sometimes just get into a bad state and stop running. 3. When things don't work - you do NOT get a notification. 4. Sometimes they start watering and don't stop. Ooops. And of course, no notification. 5. If you are still not deterred by the poor reliability, the app for programming is terrible. Each device is managed separately - you CANNOT have one program that runs multiple devices in sequence. You have to manage them separately - switch from one device to another to program it, view, history of watering, and most importantly, you have to carefully manage the start times, so that you don't have overlapping watering. When you get to 3 or 4 devices, it's a nightmare. I have an Orbit multi-zone in-ground timer, too, that one works great, and the app supports programs for multiple zones. But these hose end timers were slapped on to the same app with a terrible design that does not allow grouping them, with disastrous usability consequences. That was 2 years ago, and no updates to the app.

this worked great for watering our garden, i used it for the drip lines I setup. fantastic little thing! paired with my b-hyve sprinkler system.

I love the B-hyve hose timers. We have used them for the past few years. Be sure you order with a hub when adding that first Gen2 unit to your system. First and second generation systems are not compatible which is not listed in the product description. We had to order a 2nd gen hub that cost around $25 more than if we had ordered the hub and hose timer together. Great product line. App is easy to navigate. However, support for first gen units is less than desirable. Second gen appears to have been produced to correct 1st gen problems.

Not very happy with the Gen 2. I have the original orbit smart timer. Works perfectly. This one I've had problem after problem with it. It keeps disconnecting. Wants me to restart it with Bluetooth when I'm 500 mi away. When I am at the house, no problem. I set it up exactly it is instructed. Unfortunately I won't be back at the house for another 2 weeks and it will be past the time to send back. So kind of a waste of money. Not easy to use at all. Maybe it's just this unit

Wanted to get away from manual timers so bought one 4- port timer to try out. Love it bought 2-more! So easy using the app. These timers work so good I took out my whole system and started over, what great timers.

**Constantly malfunctions** I have 4 gen 2’s and 2 gen 1’s- all updated to the latest version. Both constantly disconnects, turns itself off (with 80% battery life) and disconnects, continually loses connections and on several occasions, the Gen 2’s do not stop the flow of water. I have to keep an eye when it is supposed to stop watering. On 5 occasions (since May) the gen 2 did not shut off the water and it watered for over an hour before I realized it and had to run out there and manually shut it off. I have reached out to support about the non shutting off the flow of water issue, their response: it’s supposed to stop the flow of water after the designated time regardless if it disconnects from the WiFi. The app is okay, but can be a lot better. With having 6 timers, you need to switch to each timer to see when it waters. There is no central hub to see all the watering times/ durations. It’s very annoying/ especially when having to adjust watering schedules. For the amount of money these timers are, they are not worth it. Especially if you need more than 2. Photos show it still watering after an hour and the app showing it’s not watering- even though it was.

For any Australian buyers this does have an NPT thread and needs a GHT (BSP) adapter. It does come with a quick connect fitting for the hose though. Runs well with the V2 hub and seems to have better bluetooth range than my XD (could be imagining it)

Adding this to my b-hyve ecosystem. Wanted to add another zone after the fact of running my lines under concrete. I currently have a 4 way main b-hyve and off of 1 of the zones I used this single line with another single line unit to split it into 2, programmed to have the main 4 way open the valve and the same time open only 1 single valve for the 1 existing zone and then have the other single valve open after for the new zone 2. So sometimes the most best laid out plans do not always work out but this helped address it and worked very well.

Very good

Does job, dependable. Makes life easier.

Doesn’t fir Australian taps, watch out