Orbit61014 Garden Box Drip Watering Hose Faucet Timer Sprinkler Kit

Solidly engineered water control via wifi and mobile phone app is preferable to those clunky manual timers, as long as you are OK with the process of connecting to your wifi router. The kit contains 1/2-inch water supply hose that connects to the faucet control unit via push-fit. The 1/4-inch soaker hose connects to the supply hose using clips that puncture the hose and then attach. It's a good system. I wish the kit contained stoppers for the end of the supply hose since I am not running a loop. They are a $9 add on for 2 here on Amazon. 30 additional 1/4-inch fittings are $4 add on here on Amazon. I'll also source 1/4-inch supply hose to run water to a separate container. Note that these soaker systems requires a pressure reducer, and there is one included in this kit. Thumbs up.

This is a great product, only bad thing was soaker hose, it works in the first foot or so only rest of hose was dry. I just ordered solid line and drippers.

I have four beehive systems and I must say that the hose timers are terrible product as they have broken several times. They have leaked, bricked, and failed to mantain connectivity. The battery has died and stopped watering without any other notification to me.The app is awful. You cannot hold a program other than telling it to have a rain delay. It was extremely difficult to set my personal weather station as the source for weather data, and only then, rain delays are only predicated on future forecasts of rain not how much rain has actually fallen. Because of this, you may have received 2 inches of rain and your irrigation system will still come on. I have been complaining about the lack of usable features in their app for years and even have the personal cell phone number of their product owner, yet they have made no improvements. To make matters worse, they used to answer the phone when you contacted them now they force you to accept a return contact by texting that will take hours.The app lacks many features and I would not call it a smart app. I have my own personal weather station so I know exactly how much rain I have received, but their app only works on predicted rainfall not accumulated rainfall. As such, it can actually trigger the irrigation to come on even while it is raining. Vice versa, it will not water when there is predicted rainfall and I live in the Arizona desert and we may not get that rain and the plants die from lack of watering.There is also no hold feature other than a rain delay which must be done manually each time for each system. There's no way to control the system by calendar, like you would expect in a smart app. So, if you know that you have a gardener coming every other Monday there's no way to go into the calendar and tell the system to hold watering your lawn every other monday. How dumb!Getting system to get weather data from your own personal weather station is quite difficult because they don't use wunderground or other commonly used websites to locate your personal weather station. They use a website I never heard of and it took me quite some time to get it to work.Don't let the initial price point sway you into buying this. It may be cheaper but you get what you pay for in hours of work and lost plants and inconvenience and lack of functionality.

This was an easy kit to assemble and set up and its been working great forus for several weeks now!