b-hyve - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

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
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4.54 out of 5

271 ratings in United Kingdom

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I would give zero stars if I could

System has been bricked since app issues months ago caused massive issues to previously working system. European “help desk” is worse than useless taking weeks to respond if they bother at all

A Square Peg Made To Fit Round Hole

The app was disappointing because it quickly became apparent it had been designed for the indoor Orbit control panel driving solenoid valves. By adapting it to work with the hose faucet timer a lot of functionality does not exist. It appears that whoever adapted the software has no knowledge of running an irrigation system. As with the control panel unit multiple zones are needed for complete garden/greenhouse watering. The app only handles one zone at a time which makes it complicated to program. There is no overall view of the watering schedule so you have to be carful not to get overlapping times. You can only view or change a zone parameters by activating it. With multiple zones this can be a slow process. Once running though it performs OK. The Wi-fi setup was easy to setup and it works much better than the Hozelock wireless system I have been using. The water flow metering does not function. Battery life is good. In my first season batteries lasted most of the season which given the faucet only uses 2xAA batteries is exceptional. The battery level indicator does function but with multiple zones it is a real pain having to activate each zone one at a time to see the battery level. Recent updates have introduced nasty bugs that are a real concern. Now a change to a program results in the faucet not functioning to the revised program. Only solution seems to be deleting the program and inputting a new program. This is not what you expect from one of the leading suppliers of irrigation systems in the USA. I downgraded to 2 stars as a result of issuing faulty program updates.

Broken

Can no longer log-in. Fails to recognise email address as belonging to an account but then says account exists if you try to set it up again. Useless.

Great, just one question

How can I change the order of the sequence once I have selected the areas for a specific program?

One persistent problem

The app is great, but I’ve had this controller for a couple of months now and discovered a problem. I have 6 watering zones. They are all lawn except for zone 6. Zones 1-5 are using smart watering. Zone 6 is a flower bed. I have zone 6 programmed to water every day at the moment and every time I look at the app, the program is disabled. I enable it, close the app, reopen it and it’s disabled again. So I have to remember to do it manually. Was hoping it would get fixed in an update, but nothing yet

Clear, unambiguous irrigation programming!

So much better than complicated wall timers with dials and lcd displays. Easy and clear to programme, worked first time! Tip for buyers in UK/Europe who buy from Amazon/eBay in USA... power supply is 110v input so can’t use here - the existing 240v one for my old timer has same 24v output and works fine.

Nosy and awe full

Requires.personal information and a ‘lack of privacy’ policy agreement to switch on a hose pipe. Also programming very limited. Buy a dumb device.

Amazing

It is pretty good. I have just installed it. Impressive!😊👍

Great app

Easy to set up, easy to use, great features. Means I won’t come home to a dead garden! really pleased.

Fantastic

In seconds I can control our holiday home irrigation system from thousands of miles away

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Chart	Category	Rank
Top Free	Canada Lifestyle	242
Top Free	United States Lifestyle	257
Top Free	Poland Lifestyle	311

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