RAINPOINT WiFi Sprinkler Timer 2 Zone, Smart Water Hose Timer 2 Outlet Only, Without WiFi Hub, Must Use with 2.4Ghz WiFi and TWG004WRF WiFi Hub (Lot Number After 202108)

Let me start by saying I have the Rainpoint sprinkler timer, too.It uses the same app, which is convenient. The strange thing is that the app is a little better for this water timer than for the sprinkler timer.Set-up is easy. There's step-by-step instructions to follow. Install the app on your phone and create a log in. Then plug in the WiFi hub. The hub will start blinking and you use the app to connect a new device, choose the hub (everything is represented graphically, so you choose the item that looks like the hub), enter your 2-g Wi-Fi password, and blam-o, it connects.Then put batteries into the water timer and repeat the process. The app automatically connects the water timer to the Wi-Fi hub. Now you're set to start watering.My hose spigot is already pretty crowded. I have a 1-4 expander, so I have hoses that go to the driveway, the backyard hose reel, the soaker hose, and the raised garden bed. Because of this setup, I did not want to hang the somewhat heavy water timer from the expander, so I made a short piece of hose so I could mount the water timer somewhere unobtrusively.Connecting the hoses to the water timer is much as you'd expect. Hand tighten, watch your threads, and use the provided Teflon tape. Before I connected my outlet hoses, I tested the on-off of the water timer, both manually and on the app. This also helped me look for leaks.Because nothing is a manual switch, both the manual buttons and the app have a slight delay to open and close the water, but it isn't more than a few seconds.Then I connected the outlet hoses and tested it again. Good to go!Much like the sprinkler timer, you can go into the app and set up a schedule for the water timer to run. You can set start time (and end time), days to water, and whether you want a rain delay of 24, 48, or 72 hours. You can set up to 3 schedules for each side. If you'd prefer, rather than an end time, you can choose a water amount. Once it reaches the specified output, it'll shut off. I never tested for accuracy, because I'm used to turning on the hose for the garden and setting a timer for 30 minutes, so that's what I did here.The rain delay is a mixed blessing. If the app receives a weather forecast where rain has or is falling, it won't run for the set time. Usually, this is great, but sometimes we might have a forcast of rain and nothing reaches the ground, but the app doesn't know. When the rain delay is on, it will also prevent you from turning on the hose manually.Fortunately, you can turn off the rain delay temporarily, but I think there should simply be a rain delay over-ride. The sprinkler controller is the same way.I get alerts--zone 1 has started. Zone 1 has finished. I like these alerts because with set-and-forget things if it stops working I might not realize until my garden looks dry. Here's what's odd to me: The sprinkler controller (the same app) doesn't notify me when my sprinklers are running!One bonus that I was not expecting: The Wi-Fi hub has an outlet on it. I thought that was nice, so it doesn't take up an outlet. But no, it's better: It's a smart outlet. Plug a light or something into the Wi-Fi hub and control it remotely! You can even set up a timer in the app (not as good as the water timer).The app is not the most user-friendly, and what I mean by that is I didn't pick it up and immediately intuit how to use it. It took me a few minutes. It feels strange to navigate, the first page is all your devices. In my case, that's the Wi-Fi hub, the Wi-Fi hub outlet, the water timer, and the sprinkler timer. Click the Wi-Fi hub and the devices connected to it are presented. Clicking on them here is the same as clicking on them on the prior screen. There are four menu icons on the bottom:Parameter: Shows the two zones, how much water the prior run used (no history beyond last run), battery status (the outdoor timer takes 4 AA's), and the next scheduled run.Manual: Set a run-time up to 60 minutes and turn the zone(s) on. I do like that there's not an option to run forever.Plan: Set up Plan A, B, C for each zone (total 6 plans). Turn plans on or off. So you could have a cool-weather plan, a warm weather plan, and a heat wave plan. Set the Rain delay. This is also where you turn off the rain delay to manually override it.Sensor: The Wi-Fi hub can connect to several soil sensors (I don't have one), so you can see if you need to water or not. I don't know if there's a way to have the soil sensor trigger a run. I doubt it, but it would be awesome. Also, you can see your historic water usage here for the past 10 days.My: Instructions and Contact, as well as where you can connect the water timer to Alexa or Google Assistant. I have not done this.The Wi-Fi hub can connect to other items, so you could add additional water timers and soil meters. I think if you don't have an in-ground sprinkler, this would be a great way of using sprinklers and hoses to replicate that setup. Have a pool and add water in the hot months, I can think of many uses for a bunch of these devices, and Rainpoint seems to have a lot available.Overall, I really like this product a lot. I used to water my gardens manually and the manual timer I had would sometimes stick or I'd forget to turn the water off. Having a simple to use app to control it simplifies things a lot.The only gripes I have: I'd like the rain delay to be easier to override. I'd like the sprinkler controller to send notifications like the water timer. But I wouldn't take away a star because it's not significant enough of an issue.

I am so glad I purchased this item! I was growing tomatoes on my deck but the spigot was in the front. It was such a hassle to go down the steps, through the backyard, out the gate for the fence, turn on the water, then reverse to water the tomato plants and same thing to turn the water off - - every day! It doesn't sound bad, but it was a pain for such a simple task. At first, I just left the hose on - but the garden hose didn't last with the constant water pressure. This was the perfect solution! Now I just tell Alexa to turn on the left hose and water my plants. Added bonus - it is timed and automatically shuts off!Before purchasing, not only did I lose a garden hose because of leaving the water on, it caused a leak! I was out of town when I was alerted that I had a water leak! (Our city water company provides an app to track water usage and detect leaks). All that wasted water and money! Now I don't have to worry about that or even about forgetting to turn the water off.Finally - customer service is AMAZING! I love it when a company stands behind its product. About a year after purchased, the timer stopped working. I emailed their support team for assistance. They responded with steps to take and when they didn't work, had me send in info and sent out a replacement!I hooked up a hose, ran it next to the house, and left the nozzle on the deck. All I had to do was tell Alexa to turn on "left hose" and water my plants! Even better, it automatically turned the water off!

This was extremely easy to set up. I was a bit worried because I have an eero mesh router that doesn’t have a separate network for each band. However, I set up the hub in just a couple of minutes, no issues whatsoever with connecting, then connected two timers. One timer is fairly close to the hub but the other timer is on the other side of our 1000 SF building so through two rooms and a hallway plus an outside wall (maybe 50’). I connected both timers to the hub while I was inside, then installed them at the bibs. I expected the far timer might lose connection to the hub once I put it in place but it didn’t. I started a manual watering from the app with no noticeable delay in opening the valve. There appears to be no issue with the distance at all.Other than test cycles I haven’t put this through its paces but I’m really impressed with the ease of use so far. I wanted a timer that would allow me to schedule and monitor watering but would also have a manual watering option that didn’t require a phone if an extra watering was needed. This is perfect as I can customize the length of the manual watering for each bib in the app. I like that it can water by duration or amount of water, and I can see how much water a given cycle used.