THIRDREALITYZigbee Smart Watering Kit for Potted Plants, Indoor Plant Watering System, Hub Required, Compatible with Echo Devices with Zigbee Hub Built-in, Home Assistant, SmartThings, Hubitat, Homey

Works as expected. Not sure if I have the nozzles installed properly because the product photos show them differently from the instruction manual. I tried adjusting them to work as a dripper but it just created leaks so I loosened the threaded caps to prevent water from spraying everywhere but it creates a stream of water instead of gentle drip. Will take some fine tuning to get it dialed in, I think. Set up automations in HomeKit and I like that it’s a stateless switch that only runs the pump for the amount of time that you set locally on the machine then automatically turns off.Not sure how I feel about running it on batteries. Might wire up an adapter plug once I run down this set of AAs.

Zigbee powered, very simple. Its a indoor water system. Not much to say about it but nicer then the ones you have to flash ESPHome onto.

As many have noted here, this watering system, while functional, lacks a few features that would make it far more useful: namely AC adapter support and more full featured programming capabilities. I got this basically to water a single plant while I am away on vacation. For that purpose it seems to work OK.First off let me say that I'm using this device purely standalone. I have no other Zigbee devices, don't have a Zigbee hub, and don't have any current plans to add one. I understand that many of the more advanced features are unavailable in that configuration, but for something so basic as scheduling an electric pump I just don't see a need for an app. That said, the device does support standalone operation, or at least that's what I am assuming since it allows me to set up scheduling directly on the device. However, standalone operation is not detailed in the included instructions so I have had to make some assumptions on exactly how it works.As many have noted, the lack of support for an AC power adapter is probably the most glaring omission. Not wanting to rely on batteries to power it I made some modifications to allow it to run on AC power. This really shouldn't have been necessary but having the knowledge and a spare adapter it was a pretty quick hack.The kit itself includes a length of hose and enough connectors to supply one large or two smaller plants. I don't know how many plants this would ultimately support watering but since that's all I needed I have not experimented further.

The biggest issue with this machine: it doesn't have an option to be plugged in. For something like this I'd really like to not have to change out batteries.Unfortunately I wasn't able to get this to correctly pair with my Conbee II Zigbee adapter, so I wasn't able to do anything more than the basic onboard programming.I do wish it mentioned how much water it pumps, because without testing it out you really have no clue, which is a bummer since it makes setup a little more difficult.Currently I'm using this for my snake plant, which only gets water once every other week, and it's been happy with that.

This THIRDREALITY Smart Watering Kit is described as smart. When I saw it was Zigbee and compatible with Echo Devices with Zigbee and SmartThings I got excited. I currently have other Zigbee devices controlled with Alexa routines through my Samsung SmartThings Hub. So I thought this Alexa controlled automated watering system was a no brainer.When I received the kit, and read the quick start guide, I discovered that it is compatible but not advanced. Basically the only control available through standard Zigbee and an Alexa routine is on and off. Alexa sees the watering pump only as a switch. There is no battery level feedback, logging, error reporting, etc. So I stared to wonder if this thing would even work the way I wanted.With the buttons on the unit, the controller/pump will water at a preset watering duration (10sec-16.5min) and at a preset frequency (0-30 days). So I left the settings at default – ten seconds watering and zero days.Connection to the Samsung SmartThings Hub was a breeze and Alexa saw it immediately as a switch. In the Alexa app I pressed the on button and the pump started right up but then turned itself off after 10 seconds. Alexa showed the switch was now off. I tried it again and the pump turned itself off after 10 seconds. I then set the watering duration on the physical pump to 30 seconds and tried it again. The pump turned itself off after 30 seconds. This turned out to be is a good thing. I could use the Alexa app to turn on and off the pump before the 30 seconds had passed. So if you set the watering duration on the physical pump to a longer run time than the on/off switch routine time in the Alexa app, then the set time on the physical pump will act as a fail-safe and turn off the pump if the pump does not get the off command from Alexa. Great!YES, as long as you have a Zigbee connection, you can use an Alexa or a SmartThings routine to schedule watering.To water base on soil moisture levels is another thing. Apparently you would need the THIRDREALITY Smart Soil Moisture Sensor. But THIRDREALITY says that Alexa does not support humidity and they don’t recommend using the Smart Soil Moisture Sensor with Alexa. It then looks like you would also need the THIRDREALITY Smart Bridge MZ1. With the bridge then you could link THIRDREALITY Zigbee end devices to the Matter protocol they use to achieve easy control and monitoring. This was too involved for me.So as a simple indoor plant watering on, watering off pump Zigbee controller this thing is pretty good.