Plus de 4h pour le brancher et le configurer.Comme le disent les autres commentaires:- conçu pour fuir, plusieurs problèmes différents à plusieurs endroits variés qui causent des fuites; faut se casser la tête pour avoir un truc correcte.- chargeur en prise US, donc, j'ai utilisé un autre chargeur en stock perso- ENORMES difficultés pour détecter, connecter, synchroniser, mettre à jour, reconnecter les deux appareils.Après plus de 4h de guerre, ça fait semblant de marcher. Reste à voir la fiabilité dans le temps.Au final, j'ai enfin réussi:- branchement sans fuite d'eau- alimentation du hub- implantation à des endroits ou ça capte- calibrage du débit- configuration des zones- configuration des programmes- configuration des calendriersQuand vous n'arrivez pas à connecter au début, n'hésitez pas à faire un réset usine, ou, power cycle. Après la mise à jour firmware, il faut aussi faire un power cycle.Le programme SMART fait l'arrosage à 6AM, ce que je trouve étrange, car les plantes préfèrent un arrosage le soir que le matin. C'est la nuit que les plantes pompent dans le sol et grandissent. C'est la nuit que les plantes vivent.Quand tout fonctionne en wifi, et que vous n'êtes pas chez vous, l'appli se plaindra que le bluetooth ne fonctionne pas; faites annuler le message, et ça marchera par internet.Et la grosse inconnue: est-ce qu'il sera capable de se couper quand il détecte une fuite, ou casse de tuyau ??? il est censé le faire d'après le site du constructeur.J'aurais aimé une sonde qui mesure la sécheresse du sol, à plusieurs profondeur (tous les 5 cm sur 30 de profond). Un machin qui se rentre dans le sol à 30cm, sur piles ... c'était pas compliqué à concevoir. Avec une mesure 4 ou 6 fois par jour, la consommation serait microscopique, les piles pourraient durer des années.Nombreux bugs et erreurs de traduction dans l'application.

I purchased this to replace the Orbit 58911 Complete Yard Watering Kits I was using at the time. I was going on an extended vacation and wanted to reduce the workload for my house sitter and control and monitor watering remotely. I started out with one unit for testing and quickly realized this was an ideal solution.Make sure you update all your devices to the most current software version.The hub which connects your Bluetooth valves to your wifi needs to be in relative proximity on the inside of your house to the exterior location of your valves. Signal connection between the two had no issues even through 2’ stone walls. The valves communicate with each other creating a mesh which increases stability.Figure out where your valves will be to calculate how many hubs you need for larger systems. I needed 8 more valves and 2 more hubs so I purchased 2 Orbit 21044 b-hyve Smart Hose Watering Timer 4-Packs each included a hub and a 4 way Hose Manifold. There are different b-hyve packages on Amazon so figure out the most economical way to get what you need.Although the b-hyve software isn’t great, (at times it can be downright frustrating) setup is easy. Download the app, add your hubs and valves (this part is a little frustrating as there are redundancies that could be avoided even with having an auto fill option). Regardless setup process is worth it, as this system gives you great flexibility and functionality with your watering schedules.I set up multiple watering schedules for each zone each day in order to supply water to each plant when they need it most while maintaining water pressure to the house for high usage times.You can setup your own watering schedules or use the WeatherSense® feature for watering based on live weather feeds through wifi connection. I was hesitant to try the smart watering feature while I was away but upon my return I found it was very useful and reliable.OverviewI like being able to easily change schedules remotely especially useful when you are figuring out the water requirements for new situations. The app lets you attach a photo of the actual zone for easy reference of each zone.Smart watering saves water, as well as adjusting watering to specific soil and seasonal weather conditions preventing overwatering and allowing you to fine tune each zone to its specific needs.Overall this is by far the best system I have used.

I love having these faucet timers for my yard. I have 3 now (one purchased with this hub and 2 additional 21005 units). The majority of the negative reviews are due to frustrations working with the poorly designed app from Orbit. The documentation is not very clear either, so hopefully the following explains how it works.The Orbit B-hyve smart device app is used to control multiple devices. You can purchase this item which includes a WiFi hub, the model without that is Bluetooth only (but which can be upgraded to use WiFi with this included hub), another timer that will control other Orbit B-hyve products, etc. While using the same app for multiple devices in theory shouldn't be an issue, in this case it can be confusing because some options are not relevant for the product you may have purchased, but are still visible even if you don't want to or can't use the feature.Things to note:Each device is separate from the other. You control and schedule them separately.Programs - This is where you "program" the faucet timers. You can create multiple sets of schedules for each device. You can have a device come on each day of the week (you can select the days individually), at an interval (every 1, 2, 3 etc days), even or odd days. You can specify multiple start times throughout the day (come on at 8am, 12pm, 3pm). You will pick the default zone and select for how long the faucet will remain open for the days/times you picked. You can also specify a watering budget (which admittedly i have no clue what that does because i couldn't find documentation on it, it may not even be relevant to this device...so i left it alone at 100%)Zones - Although completely irrelevant and not meaningful for these devices, a Zone is the area that the device will water. They each only control 1 zone, but despite that possibly obvious fact, you still have to select that 1 zone when setting up the schedule. You will see prompts and warnings that you haven't configured a schedule for the zones on the device. From reading others complaints, I think a lot of the struggles would be eliminated if they just defaulted to the only zone available, but once you realize that they sell other devices that control 6 or 12 zones and they happen to use the same interface for our single zone devices, it makes a little more sense.So how do you actually program these timers?1. Once you download the app on your phone/tablet, you will need to create a Orbit B-hyve account.2. The app will attempt to enable Bluetooth on your phone for the initial pairing of the devices.3. You should then plugin the hub (choose an inside wall that is closet to where your faucet timers will be installed and where you have a WiFi signal). This device will connect on a 2.4GHz signal only. The signal doesn't need to be very strong from my experience (mine is pretty far from my WiFi router).4. You will then add the hub to your account via the app (it should default to pairing mode).5. Next you install 2 double A batteries in the faucet timer (you will hear it click twice as it opens and shuts the valve to confirm it is functioning correctly).6. You will add a new device in the app and you should see the icon that looks like the timer with the MAC of device. You will need to tell it the location (which is annoying because you do it for each device you add...or it seems like you do. It remembers what you previously provided, but seems to keep prompted on each new device. I assume this is for people who will use the same account to control devices in multiple zip codes, but why that would be on for most people i can't understand).7. You should get prompted to update the device (one of the 3 I installed did not prompt me at first so i went into Settings - Devices - select the device - scroll down to Update Firmware). This took about 2 to 3 minutes for me.8. Here is where the fun / confusion / frustration begins..9. You should be prompted to program a schedule for the new device now. You have the option of using their smart watering or to do a manual schedule. Regardless of which you want to do, it tells you that it wants to test the water flow. For me i wanted to do the manual schedule so that honestly threw me off because I was doing this on my couch and I also didn't want to use the smart watering option so I didn't know if I needed to do that to proceed...you don't need to by the way :)10. If you go through the wizard and do manual setup it will walk you through the options I listed above regarding the "programming"11. Once you save it, you are all set. Hook it up to your faucet and click the icon that looks like a remote and test it out.Once you have it programmed it seems reasonably straight forward to use. Providing the zip code means that if it rains, it will / can automatically set a rain delay on (it happened to be raining when i was setting it up and it applied a rain delay automatically). But of course, you can always clear that or adjust it as you see fit which I think is pretty cool.There are more features and options but this should be enough to get someone started. The app does suck, but the product is totally worth it form what i can tell so far.

Very simple to setup it works perfectly