RainPoint-Tuya

After buying several timers, and being able to connect them to the hub, now all attempts to add the 5th FAIL, the app fails to discover or add manually anything. Already returned back ti amazon 2 of the 1 valve smart timers.

At least 6-10 times the app freezes during use. The back button doesn’t work at all even after deleting the app and reinstalling. I have to force quit the app in order to continue using it. Rain delay doesn’t work. I click the 24 hour rain delay, but it rains and the sprinkler still turns on. Other than the app I am happy with the purchase.

It’s worked well, one thing happened is that the duration time that I had set changed randomly from 7min to 15mins which drove my water bill up majorly. I may go back to hand watering if it happens again.

Not Ready for PrimeTime This is the second Rainpoint watering timer that I’ve bought. The first one—I had to discard—was mistakenly advertised as Wifi compatible but which turned to be Bluetooth-only, in terms of the control and operation of its watering programs. in other words. unless the APP on your iPhone was in earshot of the watering timer, the system was inoperable. The current device’s programming features seem to be fully Wifi compatible. However, its Wifi connectivity is spotty and unreliable at best. In addition, the hard copy Manual, not to mention its on-line version, is virtually illegible either due to its faint print or the accompanying programming instructions taken from the APP which are completely blurred, ie: not in focus. But most urgently, the Chinese maufacturer Tula’s iphone APP as well as the manual itself are in desparate need of native English language vetting in order to be fully understood. The iPhone APP needs to be rewitten and its drop-down windows presented in a more coherent and logical fashion with particular attention given to the selection of idiomatic English keyword commands and other programing instructions. For example, three programming “plans” are offered but nowhere is it explained how the plans relate to one another as a whole operationally. In addition,operational notifications are entirely opaque in their purpose and effect, so that depending on which window in the APP you’re in, one is constantly confused by dates/times which may be past, present or future. The result is that the user is never quite sure which plan, if any, is currently in operation and whether the attached watering devices/misters are actually running and according which plan.

This app is trash when you click on “contact us” it’s written in Chinese and the grammar in the support manual is laughable and doesn’t really separate IOS to Android features. If you have a problem it just redirects you to YouTube, should I go on? This water timer worked great for the first 2 years but now 1 of 2 timers will send a 48H rain delay alert just to go head and keeping watering. THATS THE WHOLE REASON FOR THE PURCHASE OF THIS PRODUCT!!! I’m going back to my B-hyve.

I am using it with a RainPoint 2 hose smart timer. It works well enough. One small improvement I would like to see: on the “parameter” tab I would like to know when the *last* irrigation occurred, not just the next one. This is because the rain delay may have moved the irrigation day.

Had a small problem recently. Called them. They walked me through getting it reconnected. It was a dead battery

New app seems DOA. Can’t click on sign in or sign up, no response.

Bought this system to replace an Orbit B-hyve smart water system. After using it a year, I’m not sure I’m any better off. The devices like the WiFi Hub and irrigation timer work as expected. Once I had it setup, I have not had any connectivity issues. So, those components are okay. The app is one of the worst I’ve seen. The interface is bizarrely confusing with a lot of odd features to connect to other home network devices. The navigation is not intuitive. It’s easy to get lost or unable to find your way back to a screen. The app automations based on weather don’t work properly because the app weather forecast is not accurate. For example, I set up a rain delay if it starts to rain. It’s cloudy and raining right now, the app says it’s sunny outside. Not even close. The app “help” page just tells me to wait for the weather to update, which should happen every ten minutes. For the record, it does NOT update regularly and it’s certainly longer than 10 minutes. This shortcoming is a dealbreaker for me. The watering schedule works well enough for when you finally figure out how to use it. It’s full of components that don’t even seem usable or functional. As if the developers intended to build it one way, changed the plan midway, and left all the disabled components from the original plan. Very sloppy. Overall, I guess I prefer it to my old Orbit system, but just barely.

Does not work with Deco mesh system