Smart Garden Hub 6 Zone Wi-Fi Irrigation Controller

I have it for 3 years now and it was working as expected. But now this product is no longer supported. The company that designed it has gone bankrupt. The internet connection does not work anymore including any cloud connection. Don't buy !!!

This product is excellent for saving water. I've only been using it for two months and my water bill has dropped by atleast 40%. Secondly, the installation was simple and took about 20 minutes. It's cool that I can finally control my garden through mobile apps without the need to actually go outside and mess around with timers and primitive solutions. Turns out this product syncs with many other sensors and products making all your smart house products more efficient. To summarize, excellent product which is definitely worth your buck. Fully recommend it!

I was very excited to finally get this product as I have been waiting for a legitimate app controlled irrigation that would be better than the poor offerings that were previously on the market. I chose GreenIQ because it could also control garden lighting whereas the other options didn't have this integration. The unit was relatively easy to install being my first job in life was an irrigation system installer and my 2nd job was a Nuclear reactor electrician. To get the system setup for wireless use (which will probably be 99% of the installs because I doubt anyone has a cat-5 plug near where their current irrigation timer is installed) you have to hard plug into a network that is near enough to your wifi access point so you can get the inital wireless connection. Then you go to your install site and wire it into your valve wiring. Instead of including a screw panel connection where you can quickly slide in each control wire and screw in to secure, which is included in even the cheapest $15 irrigation controller, you have a hardwired, unstripped pigtail with very fragile low gauge unstripped wire. So you have to strip the wire and then hardwire them to your control valve wire. Then you realize you probably need to take the extra time to make quick connectors (which are difficult when you have such small gauge wires) because your network needed to be reset or upgraded and your settings change, requiring you to disconnect your greenIQ box and take it back to a computer to wired ethernet and reestablish network connection to then go back and reinstall again. After getting it hooked up and running the app it turns out that it is not a polished app but just a webview interface. It's not terrible but it's not a great UI/UX either, so it's marginally acceptable but should be better for a $250 product in the new growing smarthings commodity market. For me the biggest disappointment was to see that I had to order an add-on to be able to control my landscape lighting. They point to a $19 relay accessory to enable lighting control. I figured all I would have to do is connect the power wires to the relay and then plug in the control wire. So really $270 to do what it says on the package. Unfortunately when I got my $19 relay it was just a simple $6 Omron MY2N relay, with no installation instructions to be found. The only guidance was a simple generic relay schematic, and a warning to only have a qualified electrician to install. So now you need to research the pinouts for the relay order a special socket mount to run your heavy gauge power wire and small gauge control wire then assemble the circuit or pay an electrician which adds at least $75 if they only charge for a service call. So actually this unit costs at least $350 or more to work as advertised.

I have it for two weeks now with the Netatmo rain gauge, and unfortunately we didn't have to much rain, so I don't know yet if I will save money yet, but it works as advertise for the schedule portion. I just hope that it will reduce or stop the water if it rain the day before or the previous day.

Simple setup with web centric technology. This product is great now and as the applications improve you'll see the improvements without doing anything! Their support is responsive and can even update your device remotely if needed.

Just received my first one, which is only available online. That makes things real convenient when they send you a dud. Hooked up the power supply to a volt meter and it has no output. Green IQ: I recommend a little QC on your power supply's.

Equipment seems fine, but the "app" is terrible. It isn't actually an app, it's a web page. Setting up programs is not intuitive. You can't see an overview of watering times per zone.

This spring we were able to turn zones on and off from outside the house using a smart phone. The application is very easy to use. So, we replaced a head and repaired a leak without having to run in and out. It makes doing this ourselves much easier. The wiring was not too difficult. We removed the ancient controller we had. Then, we simplified the wiring by removing the old outdoor rain sensor. That thing never worked and was a real pain. Now we save water based on real weather information. BTW, the response time from the phone is good. There is a very minimal delay from command to result.

The GreenIQ hub works very well. Stops my sprinklers from going when it's going to rain that day, and it often stops them from running the next day as well since the ground is still saturated. Gives me peace of mind that I'm not wasting water by forgetting to turn off the sprinklers. Plus I can tell when I'm on vacation that they are still running and working correctly. I had a bit of trouble hooking up my sensors to it so I contacted customer service via email and got a response within 10 minutes, on a weekend! Wow! It works really well now that I have it hooked up, but I found the installation a little bit difficult (it's not that hard, same as any other sprinkler controller probably, I've just never installed anything like this before). Their website indicates that they'll have an installation video up soon, and I think that would help a lot. Also, the web app is a bit cumbersome and the delay between doing something in the app (e.g. manually turning the sprinklers for a certain zone on) and them actually going on is pretty long -- around 5 seconds sometimes -- which can make it a bit confusing when you first start trying to test it. They mention this in the manual so just be patient when you use the app and don't hit a bunch of buttons over and over -- the sprinklers will turn on (or off) eventually! I'm going to hook up my garden lighting to it as well!

Great Product. I bought earlier version a year ago and it works very well. A bit expensive but will save water and money in the long run. Highly recommend