okay this is one of my favorite little toys that i got when our sprinkler system the original one
that came with the house bro i wanted to get one of these wireless types wi-fi sprinklers timers
that i could program from the phone and and turn on this the zones whenever i feel like it instead
of having to deal with the wired one that you're stuck with their programming so this beehive one
it's eight zone or eight station um sprinkle a timer it costs 74 dollars right now at um
home depot i don't think i paid that much i probably paid like 50 or something at one point
so um but it's still even though it's more expensive it's a good deal
it's really easy to set up takes your probably less than an hour to set up and that's like
if you're having trouble pulling wires out of the old one but it doesn't take that long so
after you set it up you have to connect it to the beehive software which is pretty easy to do
it's just like everything else that you set up but you could actually set up
different watering times like i put am pm i have a special one there and you could keep adding
um it looks like four programming slots so you could you pro you could probably water
four times a day um so there there you have the um actual slots that you could program
if you click on one of them and you can edit it it'll tell you which zones in that schedule for
that time will be ordered and they cut they start out at the top and then work their way down so you
do two minutes you know like i have for example two minutes then one minute one minute one minute
or whatever you know you could set up whatever you want you could say the times of the day
the odd or even interview intervals um you could set it up so that it figures out somehow that
how much water you have in your um your your grass it also can connect via like your
zip code and determine if it's going to rain and then it won't water that day i actually
disabled that because i don't believe in any of that ai stuff working properly
if you want to keep it enabled you could actually set it up to a zip code that say never rains
um like um like someplace out in the desert or something and then it will
just ignore that feature i don't think you can take turn that feature off you have to
pretty much do a hundred percent to ten percent um i just don't use that feature i don't like the a
i portion of any of these things and then you have your zones
and in the zones you could actually set off a quick um run if you want or you could you
could shut it off at the same time here but you could um move this to whatever you want to run it
it it takes the base number that you it gives you five minutes and then
you could adjust it you could make it like two minutes 38 you know it's pretty easy to do
but this thing's been really good it hasn't screwed up at all see i have smart bordering off
which means it's not going to look at my zip code and determine if it's going to rain or not
if you don't want it to as i said you could change the zip code you don't have to use
your own zip code if you don't want you could take a zip code of a place that doesn't rain
all that much if you want to still use the smart watering but in my area it always says
it's going to rain every day so it's kind of useless and it doesn't rain every day so
so that's about it you could set up a calendar
see it tells you i'm advanced warning what it's going to look like for the next um in a schedule
where if it's going to rain or not it uses those features to do the smart programming that's why
look at it says it's going to rain just about every day and it's not going to rain every day so
but yeah this device has been pretty good i've had it for over a year it hasn't um broken or anything
and hasn't disconnected the wi-fi is pretty good i think it only connects to one wi-fi like
2.4 it won't connect to it the other type of wi-fi let me look at it really quick here
it'll connect to
your wi-fi system though doesn't have wired connection so you have to depend on the wi-fi
but yeah it will only connect to 2.4 gigahertz on your wi-fi it doesn't see the 5 gigahertz
for some reason i i guess that's the way they designed it um it works with alexa and google
devices as well so you could actually control it with alexa or google i i don't have either device
i just use their app and it also looks like it has a pump valve terminal so you can control like um
if you have like a well you can control the well that's pretty cool so works really well though
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