b-hyve

Name: b-hyve
Rating: 4.56742 (75026 reviews)

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b-hyve

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Orbit Irrigation Products Inc.

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User Reviews for b-hyve

Better than my Rachio

I have a Rachio from my backyard and I installed this one for my front yard. The b-hyve is less than half the price has more fine-grained control over the watering once it’s tuned up it’s more effective than the Rachio and it’s every bit as good from the Software side. About six months after upgrading to this unit Iro updated the Rachio software to make it more like this one. With the latest updates on the version to Rachio controller I still have better calibration option in this system. Setting up the Wi-Fi is a little hokey considering there is no way to discern between the 2.4 GHz band and the 5 GHz band on a dual band Wi-Fi network. I did notice that every time you scan the come back in the same order, so I picked one and intermittent connectivity issues reset the Wi-Fi , Take the other Wi-Fi bad, and everything has been flawless sense. I highly recommend this family of smart irrigation controllers to anyone looking. With their low price, they come in well under almost all smart irrigation controller rebate program limits.

ArmandWelsh, Oct 29, 2018

Latest Release Flawed?

I have 3 B-hyve controllers - the newer generation irrigation controller, and two smart hose timers. The devices all worked flawlessly for the last couple of years, but here lately I’m having problems. For one, the scheduled programs are not running. I’ve checked and double checked all of the settings, and can’t find any problems there. Also, when I manually initiate irrigation, it doesn’t show in the display. I’ve tried deleting and reinstalling the app, and re-connecting the devices, all to no avail. I tried contacting technical support, and have never received a call back. I’m very disappointed in Orbit at this moment. I have quite a bit of money invested in this line of products.Update: I did receive messaging from customer support the day after I left for vacation. They were very nice, but the final recommendation was to wait for software updates to fix my issues. An update has since dropped, and nothing is fixed. There should be a law against selling products with these kind of problems, and no remedy to the customer. I paid for this technology so that I didn’t have to worry about losing my garden while on vacation, but these devices are essentially useless without a functioning app.

Catawba_Mike, Jun 14, 2022

Easy to Use and Intuitive Interface Deign

The app is well designed, logical and easy to quickly set up. I was able to understand the basic as well as the advanced features right away. I like the ability to manually set watering or use the Smart feature. I like being able to adjust using the App as well as outside, directly at the station using the buttons on the box.You can keep it simple and let the system automatically make adjustments based on weather and lawn features or you can easily get into the many advanced features available for people who like to be able to adjust the multitude of advanced in-depth watering features. Great to be able to turn on stations to test standing in the yard using the phone App and not have to run back and forth to box. *In the “Zone Smart Watering Details” -> WATERING SCHEDULE ADJUSTMENTS. I Would like to see - the exact Days and Times it will Water and Duration - AFTER I ADJUST sliders like “runtime adjustment” and “Interval Adjustments” to get a user friendly view of what the automated system is doing. When I turn on Smart Water I’m not confident as I can’t “see” the actual Schedule (Date/RunTime)

Concierge2000, Mar 22, 2020

Read the whole instructions

This is a pretty darn good product for the money. I have a unique situation where I needed to increase the moisture in my warehouse and this little baby allowed me to do just that. I have it set up with 100 foot of LDPE pipe and 10 fogger nozzles. I am using two zones (4x start times each) to effectively fog my area for 12 seconds every three hours. This allows me to introduce moisture into the atmosphere over time, but not so much as to wet the floor, or the equipment in the immediate area.I did have one issue when I was originally setting the system up, in that I did not have my full system laid out and so my initial test did not reflect what the total systems pressure rating needed to be and because it took me a while to get back to the set up, I lost connectivity with the device. You need to make sure that if you cannot connect back to the device that you hit the on button five times rapidly so it will go back into Bluetooth mode. Once I reread all of the directions it became obvious what I missed. Again system works like a champ or an application it was never designed for.

Crystal_Guy, Feb 17, 2022

Excellent Controller

My previous controller stopped providing free remote access in favor of a $2 per month charge. Then the power supply failed so I made the switch to the B-Hyve 6 station. Despite what some reviewers have stated I found the set up using the app on my phone to be simple. The program walks you through the process which only takes a few minutes. Adding the photographs for each zone is a nice touch. Smart watering is very effective based on local weather and evapotranspiration. I wasn’t clear on how to manual water, but the FAQ had it all spelled out. There are collection cups that can be purchased and added to the system to enhance water management, but I haven’t put any on my system. The transformer for the power cord is in the control box which is a nice touch, but there is only one place to hang the box from, a center screw slot. The weight of the transformer makes the controller tilt on the wall unless you add the second crew (provided) to the lower right inside the box (this is not pre-punched out I used a 1/4” drill bit through the plastic). I would have appreciated a bubble level in the box and a full set of paper instructions, as opposed to the quick start/mounting leaflet provided. Otherwise, this unit is awesome for the price! Great job Orbit.

Embers_Glow, Sep 21, 2019

Product is great... App/Website is feces

Here’s an interesting dichotomy of a product. The timer and it’s features, ROCK. Well made, reliable and mostly easy to use. Until you need to need uninstall the main unit. It doesn’t matter for what reason... there’s no “uninstall” unit (insert Mac here). When I look up the problem, the only reference I see is to have someone at Orbit remove it from my account. NO. That’s not how it works, and it’s stupid. It shouldn’t matter if I changed to another brand, replaced the unit or sold my house... It’s my account, and that is so short sighted on Orbit’s part. It’s like selling a fire extinguisher... with no handles or nozzle. Oh, AND when I try to log into my account, I go straight to the device information and my settings, zone etc... cool. However, I cannot sign into the main Orbit website to even ASK for someone to remove the device from my account. Guys... get it together, you have WONDERFUL products... get your applications and customer service together, which includes your API from desktop to mobile applications straight. C’mon, I love you but... I cannot rate this any higher than a one. Customer service will make or break you. You have people that know this. You fix these shortcomings and I will change to a Five Star ALL DAY LONG. (Whispers) Fix it, please.

Jrblaster, May 03, 2020

Water water everywhere!

It’s been about a year now since we installed our b-hyve water timer. It sure does beat having to be at the box to change programs, test drip lines and heads, and just keep up with the changing weather here in Phoenix, AZ. BUT, the interface is a bit awkward, and it’s more difficult to use than it should be. Too many screens, and too few bells and whistles. So, even though I can be in East Kishnev when I want to turn a zone on or off, make changes to the programs for each zone, or just turn it all off because a storm just soaked the whole state. I’d like to see drip heads that have an individual soil monitor, so that each drip head could be individually programmed. The one that’s under the shade tree should be turned on, say, half the times that the full sun bushes are watered. Or, the newly planted small flowers or bushes should be watered twice as often but only half as long as the established plants are. Or, bush A gets four times as much rain water as bush B. Program for that!!Anyway, I can’t really complain too much, because my city rebated the full price of my b-hyve when I submitted my receipt and paperwork. Free for nothing! What a deal.

MitchKlein, Jul 19, 2018

Unable to use Interval settings

I use this app on the Orbit B-Hyve XR and it works as it should for daily watering but the interval watering does not work. I set the unit up to water my trees every two weeks and when the time to water comes, nothing happens. I contacted Ortbit customer service and they said I needed to set the “interval start date.” Well in the app that I have, there is no interval start date. There is a “program start date” but apparently that’s not the same thing. So then they directed me to my online account where I could set the interval start date. The online account is not easy to navigate and I feel turned off at this point anyway because this should be in the app, but I digress. Once I set the start date and go back to the app to finish setup and try to set enter start time, the app crashes (every time). So I think maybe I can put the start time in the online account, makes sense right? Well there is no place in the online account to enter the start time. At this point, I am ready to pull my hair out. I have 32 trees in my yard and because I can’t do interval watering, this unit is useless to me. The customer service person said they would submit a bug report but how long is that going to take to fix? Unless I can do interval watering I am going to have to return this unit. App developers, please fix this problem!!

swchampi, Sep 06, 2021

Awesome

Works great and setup went flawlessly. Had an Orbit brand installed on this house when I bought it, but something went wrong and it needed replacing. Went to Lowe’s to pick up a new one and saw this WiFi version. Since my home is rather “connected”, i.e. we bugged ourselves with Alexa, smart plugs, smart lights, etc, I thought it appropriate to make my irrigation system smart too. Very glad I did. Once we had it wired correctly (5 zones), setup of the timer to our home network (via WiFi) was super-simple and programming the 5 zones was a breeze. Took less than 5 minutes to connect it to my network, test the zones, and program 5 zones. If you’re used to using apps, the common app interface makes it super-simple to navigate and use - way easier than programming an irrigation timer using the LCD screen and buttons on the timer itself. Plus you can do a rain delay right in the app (not necessary if you have a rain sensor...I do not). There are 4 “Programs”, so you can program the same zones on multiple programs and toggle them on/off with a slider. Useful if your zones are treated differently for different seasons, for example. The only thing that’s not 100% clear during setup is any Alexa compatibility. I’m going to research that now. So far, the timer works great and I love the easy app interface, setup, and programming. Great job, Orbit!

themonsons, Jul 27, 2019

Decent when it is not having connection issues

This is an app that controls real physical utilities - so it is pretty important that it turns on and off when you need it to. If I run a test on one of my sprinkler zones it may run correctly for the first test but all tests after that for several hours sometimes are not registered and get put in some sort of back order. The only error I am given is that there is a server connection error. I know it is not my local Internet or wireless. I reset the server connection through the app which sometimes appears to update the last server connection timestamp and sometimes it does not. Regardless, it does not seem to fix the problem. Several hours later I will get a notification on my phone saying that it has completed a watering program. This has me worried that some of the nicer dynamic watering/smart watering features will not always work if it doesn’t have a good server connection. And possibly as a worst-case scenario – maybe it won’t be able to turn off a watering… I have developed a mobile app myself and did the dev ops work. My guess is that they need to get this on AWS and have much better server uptime and clean up the codebase. Of course, I could be wrong, but my app frequently had similar issues about reaching the main server when we had backend problems. It’s unfortunate that we need to communicate with the back and in order to run a local test. Please fix!

Wimtar, Jul 20, 2018

Description

The B-hyve smart sprinkler timer app allows you to control or monitor your sprinklers from anywhere in the world with the convenience of your smart device. Smart Watering Knowing how long and how often to water your plants can be challenging. When set to smart watering mode, B-hyve takes the guesswork out of watering and utilizes Mother Nature, along with some really great technology, to determine the watering schedule for your yard.

When set and left in smart watering mode, B-hyve can save users as much as 50% more water over a traditional controller. Weather When set in smart mode, B-hyve uses local weather data to determine how much water is evaporated and transpired through your plants each day to know when it needs to water. It also accounts for any rainfall that is in the forecast, shuts off the system for rain, then looks back to see how much actually fell. That’s smart! But all yards are not the same. B-hyve also takes into account things like soil type, plant type, sun/shade and slope to determine a watering schedule that takes the water to the roots and helps avoid runoff. WeatherSense If you want to be the one in control of the schedule, that’s okay too. With B-hyve you can set custom programs to water how you want while still taking advantage of the local weather data to override watering in case of a weather event. This will shut off your system during the rain and resume your program when the rain has passed. That’s smart! Integrated Irrigation Audit Tool The B-hyve app also integrates the award-winning irrigation audit tool right to your smart device. By performing a catch cup test on your sprinkler system, you will know exactly how much water is being applied rather than relying on estimated sprinkler head water use that other timers/apps use, which can be off by as much as 50%, saving you more water and money. This is the app for the best-selling, WaterSense and SWAT certified Orbit B-hyve Smart Wifi Sprinkler Timer. This is also the companion app for homeowners with the Hydro-Rain B-hyve Pro Wifi Controller. Please let us know if you have questions or problems. ALEXA – Works with Alexa. For a list of Alexa commands visit http://help.orbitbhyve.com/Alexa-Commands/ Bhyve.orbitonline.com 800-488-6156 [email protected]