Orbit B-hyve Gen 2 Smart Hose Watering Timer - 90205Z

Wow, i love this thing. So easy to set up and program on the app. I made the mistake of buying a much cheaper one with physical buttons and a knob, which i wanted, and then found out that you can only set one program on that one and there was no end time! Made it completely useless. This one has such great functionality and the programming is so flexible and easily customizable!

I currently have four of these B-hyve timers and have been very happy with them. They make managing multiple hose-based watering areas much easier, and I can set and adjust the schedules through the app without having to go out to each faucet. They've been reliable and have operated as programmed. One important thing to know before buying is that these require a B-hyve hub, and the hub is NOT included with this particular timer. I already had a compatible hub, so adding additional timers was easy, but if you don't already have a hub you'll need to purchase one separately to use the smart features. Having four of these running from the same system has worked very well for my watering setup. They're easy to manage, convenient, and reliable. I'd definitely buy them again.

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.

Great for timing water supply. I use for plants at our 2nd home. Once set up, can be controlled by phone. Do not let freeze or you will need a new unit. Take inside, because disconnecting hose will not drain water inside unit which will freeze.

I converted all my faucet end timers to Gen 2 to give me accurate flow rates on my drip systems. Some of the supply lines are longer than 100 ft. The flow calibration time is 30 seconds. That is not enough time for the flow rate to stabilize and I can see the flow rate drop as the lines fill and pressure starts to rise, giving me flow rates that are too high for hour long watering durations. I have crutched the software by running multiple tests back to back, sometimes up to three tests before the flow stabilizes. Orbit should allow the user to customize the test time to allow verified steady state flow. I have experienced the Wi-Fi connection problems, but the timers seem to still work. Could be buggy hardware or software. Flow monitoring has helped me reduce my water use, which was the point of installing these six timers. One star down for the poor software and the connection issues.

I have a bunch of these now for several seasons of use. Still working great!

We have a secondary home in a warm location. With droughts ongoing across our nation, this automatically times our hose sprinkler saving water even when we’re away. Very easy to use! A real boon to us!

3rd UPDATE: new bhyve lasted 2 months. Went to replace batteries and found that battery compartment NOT WATERPROOF!!! batteries severely corroded (yes compartment fully closed, not user error). Past return window and Orbit website only offers canned tips as "support", no actual way to contact them. Not happy. 2nd UPDATE: back down to 2 stars because with gen 2 they still haven't solved the battery drain problems. Batteries only lasting a few weeks. UPDATE: I upgraded from 2 stars to 3 after receiving my new gen 2 wifi hub and reading up on why I couldn't use the gen1 hub. The initial setup process is drastically better than what I remembered from the gen1 setup a couple years ago. Now we shall see whether or not they improved the constant glitches and bugs and battery life issues of gen1 that frustrated me constantly, and whether this gen2 will last more than 2 seasons. ORIGINAL REVIEW: After nonstop frustration with the gen1 version of this, this gen2 isn't off to a good start ... They need to warn gen1 owners that their hub IS NOT COMPATIBLE with gen2 hose timers. You have to spend even more money to replace your gen1 hub with a gen2 hub. I thought I wouldn't need a new hub and only picked this gen2 timer because it was half the price of the competition. If I had known that the forced hub upgrade would equalize the prices, I would have bought the competition's device to see if it can last longer than 2 seasons without all the connectivity frustrations and errors. Ends up beeing bad value. Hope they actually tried to fix gen1 problems... So tired of companies releasing half-baked products that have to constantly be replaced.

Very good

Works good, setup is OK, easy if you familiar with B-Hyve equipment

Very temperamental connection to the water source. I put pressure restrictions devices on my taps to no avail. They leaked constantly. Gave up in the end and moved to taplink which worked first time. The app is better too.

Doesn’t fir Australian taps, watch out

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.