App Profile: Hot Spring® Spas

Glitch4tw

Rating: 1/5

My Apple Watch cost about the same as the kit that uses this app. The watch can play music, set and and sound alarms and timers, call my wife, give health warnings based on pretty accurate biometrics, display photos of loved ones (or mortal enemies if I need motivation), open and close my garage door, act as a calculator, and the list goes on. This app controls water temperature, can test for salt, but not any of the water chemistry that the IQ system monitors on its on board display. It can turn on the lights but can’t control the colors. Other limitations are listed in other reviews. I think my point is made. This app only gives its companion unit a value in the neighborhood of $100-$150. Because it is in the category of “Hot Tub” they sell the unit at an 8x mark up. Shameful. Edit: Demoted to 1-star. The app completely logged me out and I can’t get back in. There is also zero info about the occasional alerts I get and what they mean to the lay person. This component really makes this nice, high priced hot tub feel like an off brand. “Get your Hawt Spreengs premium hot tub”.

The Jockstrap Incident of ‘19

Rating: 1/5

App is free, but you can’t use it unless you’ve installed a kit, only purchased and installed through a dealer that will cost, installed, over $800. I was excited to hear this kit was available, as I just installed a solar system and need to reduce my energy usage between 4-9pm. (The “summer timer” feature I already have is an 8 hour block, take it or leave it… feature was not intended to use for energy savings purposes, but rather safety to ensure spa doesn’t get too hot when sun is beating down on it.) This app really misses the mark. • No HomeKit compatibility (or any smart home system connectivity whatsoever.) • No ability to time any kind of event (don’t heat between 4-9pm) • no way to start a clean cycle • no way to program the lighting moods, or change lighting color. • no dashboard to monitor things like when it’s time to replace the water, or clean filters. • no calculator, pre-populated with your model’s gallon capacity, to help you properly dose chemicals based on usage activity Hot Springs really needs to reconsider the software developer they chose to partner with to get this done. Why spend $800 if I can’t even automate such a basic thing - like turn off heating for 5 hours, every day, during peak energy rates?!?

Mcflied

Rating: 1/5

App stopped working. I can no longer login. “The data can’t be read because it’s not in the correct format” is my error when I try to login. I deleted the app and reinstalled same message. Upgraded iOS to 18.3. Same error message. You cannot change the light color in the app. Can you please add this to the app? Also would be nice to open up the interfaces so we can easily control with home automation like home assistant or apple homekit. I just got the salt freshwaterIQ system on my 2024 Limelight Pulse. However, I cannot view the information it provides, on the app. Can you also add that spa accessory? Thanks for listening!