Orbit 21006 B-hyve Wi-Fi Hub, GrayWaterSense

Works perfect but you need to make sure what you are using is the correct Generation that will pair with this. Easy set up and has worked without any issues. Would recommend for anyone that has a existing system or a stand alone.

These hubs are a bit confusing to program, especially if you are far away from tour wifi. The older valves, which is what i have, require one hub each, a fact i had nit realized until recently. The confusing part is that the setup asks whether you want to use a wifi hub or control the valve directly. Note that controlling directly means that you are asking to only use bluetooth.

Tried to use this with the Orbit 24639 B-hyve XD 4-Port Smart Hose Watering Timer,and FAILED miserably and repeatedly. I am a computer support guy so I usually find a way to make things work, this Orbit product is very "IFFY".Unit is sold as a BLUETOOTH timer with WiFi capability ONLY if you add this HUB. Unit worked as advertised but ONLY on Bluetooth which doesn't have the range to connect in my yard. The WiFi hub did connect to my home WiFi but never would connect to the Bluetooth timer to add the WiFi functionality. I TRIED several times to contact what Orbit laughingly calls "support". Be aware, You will NEVER contact a human being on their phone line no matter when or how often you call. The recording states they will contact you within 1 business day. 30+ hours later I got a text msg from Orbit. I explained the problem about WIFI not connecting. Agent texted "let me check something, be right back..", Never heard from him again. Next evening around 5:30 CST I get another text. Told to look at something and ..GONE, never heard from him or anyone again. So let me state this as plainly as possible, ORBIT SUPPORT SUCKS! I concur with many other reviews, you are pretty much on your own if you have any problems. In the end I never did hear from anyone else (after numerous calls) so I just returned everything for refund. Without WIFI you can't use their timer very well as Bluetooth didn't work at the gigantic 50 foot distance to my yard. IF it works I gather it is a nice unit but it's a gamble if it will work as shown by numerous reviews. That's my .02 cents.

PROs :1). The device itself seems solid from a manufacturing point of view.2). Relatively easy to get connected to with a fairly intuitive guided setup for which defaults can be accepted.3). "Smart Watering", that by itself is easily the best feature of the WiFi hub.4). App driven functionality capable, i.e. the device is only limited by the functions and features provided be the app.5). One can get up and running in minutes accepting all defaults, which one can then tweak as one learns more about the hub.CONs :1). App driven functionality capable, i.e. the device is only limited by the functions and features provided be the app it pairs with. The issue in this case is that the functionality provided by the current app is pretty limited. The primary limitation is that it is not possible to control more than one faucet end timer at the same time which means that whatever program is active, the single active faucet end timer will operate and to operate a different timer, one has to manually do so in the app. But, the potential is there.Were it to reach its potential, it will become a 5-star review.2). It would be nice to be able to download and print a text based step-by-steps for the various processes one may need to go through to perform or use a given function or configuration. Much of the help system being in video takes forever to figure out what one can do and what doing so affects the watering. Not only is a reliance on video content a problem from a time perspective, having to watch 5 minutes of content that one could have scanned in seconds but also, having to switch between video and the app or doing so while having to scan for just that ONE spot where you think you maybe might possible perhaps seen mention of something similar yet not totally unlike what one might need to do whatever it is one is trying to do.

I have spent hundreds of dollars on beautiful plants, but never kept it growing for more than a month. When it was time to tear up my construction grade flower bed, I was anxious. But adding this to my home made it easy to manage. It has a timer to set off the sprinklers when I want to, from wherever I am! This piece gives the other piece the capability to be controlled from the app (WHICH IS AWESOME). It always detect weather; so when it rains - it doesn’t waste your water bill and skips the watering automatically!

I have a ranch home and two of the timers on either side. Even with the hub in the center of the home under my covered porch, it didn’t connect to both devices. Really unfortunate.

We cannot get the hub to connect to our phone. We will not be able to monitor the system and hopes it waters the grass and shrubs. Set up was fairly easy to use manually/timer, but the reason we bought this was to monitor on our cell. Very disappointed.

I bought this unit after I bought the timers. Getting it all the timers paired with this hub is very easy. It took me a few tries but I think it was me and not the units. Wish the instructions were more complete. Since I already had the timers I had to add the hub to devices then what I did was add the timers to the group of the hub. I did had to reboot my routers also. Just pressing the buttons on the units 5 times didn't seem to do it for me. Like I said, I added the timers to the hub's group then they were all paired and using WIFI. Now hopefully I can control from another state since that is the main reason I bought this hub.