Ratings & Reviews for Orbit 1 Output Port Smart Compatible Stationary Hose end water timer

tech is bad

Not worth the money for the bluetooth portion of the device. Stayed connected for half a day, now it won’t recomnect and seemingly a waste of time and effort. Coming from someone who is cery tech-savvy. Heading back to get a regular timer for less money out of Pocket.

Solved my watering problems

After a June of heavy construction outside our house resulting in a badly torn up yard, it was clear we were going to be trying to grow grass in the heat of July. It was equally clear I needed help to keep the grasslings properly moist. I started small with 2 B-Hyve XD timers and one hub to see if the system worked, and if I’d like it. It did, and I did! Easy to program and oversee from my iPhone (iOS 14.6) and connections have worked flawlessly so far. The hub allows you to redirect all bluet...

Battery Waster

Put new batteries in day 1. I was wondering why the sprinkler was not continuing the watering schedule on day 2 to realize the batteries had already died. Thinking it was maybe poor battery quality, I replaced the batteries and the timer would not even turn on! Very disappointed.

Great vacation waterer

Went on a 9 day vacation and needed to water my deck plants. Came home and they were all happily flowering. Liked that it was Bluetooth. Worked as expected. Only wish would be that it was WiFi capable so I could have more control while gone.

A step above the regular dial timers.

WiFi is great. I can adjust my drip system very easily.

Easy to program and install

Easy to program and we are on our second year with this product.

Randomly changes timezones

I was away for 2 weeks and needed this device synced up with my rainbird sprinkler system to prevent a leak from wasting my water. The setup was easy and I tested it to make sure everything was running smoothly before I left. 2 weeks later I get back and wonder why my sprinkler system isn't running on time. I take a look at the thing and it somehow switched itself to another timezone. Meaning my sprinkler system has been leaking all over the place and wasting water for potentially the entire las...

Works as expected - easy to program!

Relatively easy setup with a smartphone, took a little while to update the firmware. The range of the bluetooth connection is pretty great and as far as I can tell is working as expected.

Not impressed

I tugged on my hose and where it connects to the spicket, it broke. I barely tugged on it. Not impressed with the cheap plastics.

Zero Water Pressure

I was excited about using it until i discovered it has absolutely no water pressure. Had to return.

Garden watering timer. Battery operated.

This works great especially with the optional Wi-Fi. Can control with an app on your phone.

Solid upgrade to standard timer

Bought this when having to do a ton of troubleshooting on a deck irrigation system that was acting up. Works great for my needs, and here’s my thoughts on some of the negative reviews: 1. Range and battery: this is a low-power Bluetooth device. So, no wifi and limited range are tradeoffs on keeping battery life solid. Heck, it only needs 2xAA. 2. Connectivity: it does take a few seconds to reconnect each time you use the app, but see above for why. I find that I can connect from on my deck or...

Throughly enjoy

Cellphone must be within range to utilize app efficiently

Vanished from Orbit website

This is a tricky device. I was able to connect it to my android phone, and got it set up. A new model is coming, or maybe not, since the Orbit website has nothing like this or the promised next generation, called the B-hyve XD Hose Faucet Timer. It is supposed to handle Bluetooth out to 500 ft line-of-sight. I can't connect to my version at 20 ft line-of-sight. Nonetheless, I am happy with it. It is easy to set up by hand and has been reliable. I would buy it again. Other timers have been ma...

Can't see where it does wifi

So I originally bought the other model hose timer that comes with the wifi hub. All that works well. Despite pairing this (different model) timer several times, it never offers wifi as a connection, only bluetooth. So I can only control this one at home (almost unusable because it rarely connects via BT) and the others are controllable anywhere. I question whether this device has wifi at all. Very unsatisfied, will probably return this model. BTW Orbit, getting any info or manual re this device ...

Shady company. Would not recommend

Good idea in theory, but in practice the company does not stand behind their products. They advertise that it can do certain things, but the software/app doesn't yet support it. There's no real support. If you search their forums you see that people have been asking the same questions for years and gotten answers that basically say "that is something we want the software to support one day". What did it for me is the app is so counter intuitive you have to learn it. And even then you have t...