Customer Reviews for Rainmachine 8 Zone Smart Wi-Fi Sprinkler Controller

I love being able to adjust everything so easily. You can program this in any imaginable way you'd like by zone. My old one was a nightmare to reprogram. This takes a bit of time initially, but way less than the manual models. Plus, you can pause, run a few minutes to check the sprinkler heads, anything you want, very easily. Very easy to install and I had no issues with the wireless. I have had it for a month now.

Excellent product! Their design is light years ahead of the people who make sprinklers which surprised me at first. There is also a great support forum on line if you need advice on how to use it.

Easy installation. Works great!

The only problem we encountered was that the monthly restriction is set to on so we couldn’t get the system to water automatically until we figured that out. Otherwise this is a great system.

This watering system is the easiest in the world to setup! It so nice being able to open it on my phone/tablet and change the watering. The ability for it to adjust based on the weather!

This is the second brand of a wi-fi enabled sprinkler controller and I am very pleased with the application interface and the ease of set up. Unlike the Orbit brand I tried first, the Rain Machine linked up to my local wi-fi quickly and I have been able to access and control from many other locations using my iPad. I just completed installation a few days ago and it was simple to replace my old manual Hunter controller. I don't know if I will use the real-time weather info since it projects a much longer watering time than I have used in the past. The only suggestion I would make for ease of installation would be for Rain Machine to replace the the push tab wiring connectors to screw type connectors. If you need to install more than one wire in a wire location such as 24VAC or Common location you must solder the two wire together or make a third pigtail in order to securely connect to a single wire location. I would buy again and recommend to others.

Excellent device. Great help when you are repairing sprinkler heads.

This device and app are awesome. Very intuitive design. Much more ease to make programming changes or additional waterings that ever before. Having this tied to the weather reports helps keep you from watering when rain is expected. It has always been frustrating to me when the system waters at 6AM and you have a downpour rain at 10AM. This app uses weather predictions to prevent that... and it works.

Easy installation and works perfectly as a plug and play system, replacing my old controller. App can use a little work but has all the functionality there to setup and get going. Now I don't have to keep track of turning off my system when it rains. Set it and forget it!

Excellent little sprinkler system. Easy to install and setup.

Excellent Sprinkler controller. I replaced my 20 year old rain bird controller with this one. This controller is literally 20% the size of the rain bird controller and it does so much more. Installation was super easy (~20mins). It’s been installed now for 2 weeks and it’s already saved me money.

My rain machine just stopped working out of nowhere. One day my sprinklers went off all day non stop. When I logged in to the machine it said they were off. I have tried to reset it and unplug it and plug back in but it wont communicate with the sprinklers. I ended up having to buy a different system.

Set up instructions for both the device and the app are a little too minimalist. A little more detail would have been appreciated. Once you figure it out it works great, but it took a bit of random clicking around on the app to find the settings I wanted to adjust.

Absolutely the best WiFi sprinkler controller. Easy to install, easy to set up, great user interface. Love that it suspends watering by rain in the forecast from multiple weather sources.

Easy to install, good summary of run times/amount of water saved/etc, working perfectly!

Easy to install and setup. Works great!! Been using 2 weeks. Love it!! Gives great control and options for watering. Making adjustments is easy. Highly recommend!

I bought this product with high hopes that it would save me money on my watering bill. However it was not able to even setup. I was trying to get this setup with my wifi and it just would not do it. It would read my wifi connection ok and allow me to enter my password for my router then it would return an error saying the unit was to far away from my router or my password was not correct. I tried this 5 times 3 of which were in the same room not 5 ft away from the router. each time I tried I also had to reset the unit to be able to try doing it all over again. not even give the option to try again. When I received the unit it was pretty small and the wire connections even smaller the connection inputs (Wires) make you think you'll either break the unit trying to hook up the wires or make you feel your not doing it right. I have not even heard about this company before and with the cool features it offered I thought why not. The only reason I bought the unit was the auto Weather adjusting rain snow ice all able to be read from the weather NOAA and automatically adjusts your timer for you. About the Company: I did call Tech support and the guy told me how to get it setup but then he pushed me off and told me that it will work and basically hung up on my saying he had other calls to answer. How long did I have this? About 1 hour. 20 mins taking it out of the package and checking it out 15 mins hooking up all the wires and about 15 mins trying to get it setup and about 2 of them on the phone with Tech Support. and about 15 mins returning it to the store.

Easy to install, fairly simple to program. Hooked up and configured in an hour or so.

This was super easy to install. Just unplug all my wires and reconnect them to this device. The app works well. When first connecting, my phone had troubles connecting for the first hour or so. But since then I have no problem connecting even if I'm not home. I haven't had it long enough to know how smart it is with adjusting for the weather, but so far so good.

Super easy to install and setup. I had it wired up in about 5 min and the app instantly found it and was able to connect without any problems. I especially like that this product provides cloud based management, but it also has local access, so unlike many other products, it will not just become a useless bricks if the manufacture decides to stop providing the cloud services.

it works great!like the idea of controlling with smartphone.makes it easy to repair work,don't have to run back and forth to turn it on or off.had a little trouble connecting it,but got it.ty

The unit was easy to install. It hooked up to the internet and I got it configured quickly. I have had it on for a couple of weeks and it functions flawlessly. It adjusted watering based on the weather reports and is doing an excellent job handling the sprinklers.

Great features. Love the app too. The digital panel is useful for my gardener if he needs to run the sprinklers manually. Easy to install (by someone who has never installed a sprinkler system panel).

A great device to extend the capabilities of your smart home to the irrigation system. With this, you can use Alexa to control your sprinklers with simple voice command. Very cool! Beyond that, the system has many capabilities the user can take advantage of to try to save water.

Works great. I love being able to control my sprinklers from my phone and that the watering is adjusted by the weather.

Setup can only be done using mobile app. Programming is best accomplished using desktop but is not intuitive. Otherwise works well and provides good feedback on actual water use.

The controller is smaller than I expected and looks great and works very well. Very easy to set up and no issues accessing it remotely with my phone.

Very easy to setup!! Very sleek design. Can’t wait for summer!

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Easy to set up and great to use remotely.