PitBoss+

We bought a house with driveway problems that diverted rainwater into its basement. 2 years and 10s of thousand dollars later, including engineers and attorney fees, we depend on pitboss to keep us current on how much our sump is pumping and when. The reports it makes go to engineer who designed the new drainage system, the contractor that built it, and our attorney. Its function, reliability, and real time monitoring has made a real solution possible at our place. Oh, and we’re dry.

I like the Pit Boss app because it shows me the activity of my main and backup sump pumps, the power and backup battery status of the pumps and a history of alerts regarding the pumps. I wish the programmer had included a way to utilize the contact data to the pump vendors so clicking on the vendor’s phone number could initiate either a call or text message and clicking on their email would launch the start of sending the vendor an email.

Had my new sump pump installed a couple of months ago and they installed Pitboss to monitor the sump pump. Had issues with the app from the beginning not being able to setup the devices. Was finally able to set it up through the manual setup. That lasted for a little bit until I had to set it up again since nothing was showing when I opened the app. Have to set up everything at least 2-3 times a month, every month since then. Not sure what’s the point of an app to monitor my sump pump if I have to worry if it will even work or tell me if the sump pump is not working. Also wish it would save the settings so I didn’t have to load all the passwords and settings every time.