B-hyve Pro

I have an IPad Pro and a Magic Keyboard. The app only supports portrait view. I know it's a pain to create a landscape view in X-Code, but if your going to charge ten bucks for a "Pro" version, you should go through the hassle of supporting landscape view. I'm also not seeing a lot of difference between the free version and the pro version. What's in the Pro version that isn't in the free version? The product is the real win here. I couldn't imagine using anything else now that I have the b-hyve. This is my second unit, I upgraded recently. It's great not having to think about when to water and oh wait... there's rain in the forecast, better remember to set it up to skip this scheduled watering. Not with this thing, it KNOWS when its going to rain because its connected to the internet and checks the weather. It lets you know that it is going to skip a scheduled watering because the weather forecast was predicting rain. Nothing worse than hearing the watering system come on when it's raining. This is especially true in Southern California where it's practically a crime to water when it's raining. This system should be mandatory in So Cal. The app makes it easy to adjust how much it waters a certain area. It makes it so easy to manage the process, practically a no brainer.

The screenshot of the manual watering zone and the time left? That doesn’t seem to work anymore. I can set the manual watering time for all zones as shown but then hitting the green check and clicking the start icon brings you back to the Home Screen. No countdown timer or even any indication that the timer is running. So you go through it again and clicking run this time brings up a message stating that the program has finished running. No indicators for whether it’s watering anything. Only way to know whether it’s doing anything is to go outside and check the drip emitters, which isn’t handy if you’re not home. Other fun thing: if you forget your password, resetting it on an iPhone is super frustrating. They’ve got the “forgot password” link appearing under the iPhone keyboard. On iPhone (12 max for me) it won’t hide the keyboard, so you have to try to trick it into showing the link. Same when going through the reset process, should you figure out a way to trick the app into doing your bidding and resetting the password… basic Q/A would be great.

I had a malfunctioning system that was frustrating me and wasting water.. I finally bit the bullet and purchased a new system. I was not expecting to spend $10 on an app, that was disappointing, but I figured it was an investment and it would pay for itself over time. Within 5 min, I had all 4 areas wired and tested with the app. Day one, system informed me that it would rain within 24 hours, so system would skip a day... that’s what I call immediate results! Totally worth $10!