App is very similarly designed to Tuya and Smart Life. Rainpoint says and does what is advertised. It turns the smart water valve on and off like it should by the schedule, and measures how many gallons are given through each valve. There are notifications that alert you when the valve turn on and off. I asked the developer if they would consider adding a notification for when the valve does not function successfully (like some of my other SmartLife/Tuya devices do), and if there could be a notification for a valve dispensing more than “X” gallons. However Rainpoint’s response was instructions on how to turn on and off notifications. Looks like this app is what it is, and most likely will not be furthering its capabilities or smart functions.

Bought this system to replace an Orbit B-hyve smart water system. After using it a year, I’m not sure I’m any better off. The devices like the WiFi Hub and irrigation timer work as expected. Once I had it setup, I have not had any connectivity issues. So, those components are okay. The app is one of the worst I’ve seen. The interface is bizarrely confusing with a lot of odd features to connect to other home network devices. The navigation is not intuitive. It’s easy to get lost or unable to find your way back to a screen. The app automations based on weather don’t work properly because the app weather forecast is not accurate. For example, I set up a rain delay if it starts to rain. It’s cloudy and raining right now, the app says it’s sunny outside. Not even close. The app “help” page just tells me to wait for the weather to update, which should happen every ten minutes. For the record, it does NOT update regularly and it’s certainly longer than 10 minutes. This shortcoming is a dealbreaker for me. The watering schedule works well enough for when you finally figure out how to use it. It’s full of components that don’t even seem usable or functional. As if the developers intended to build it one way, changed the plan midway, and left all the disabled components from the original plan. Very sloppy. Overall, I guess I prefer it to my old Orbit system, but just barely.

Review from an actual UX designer:So I love the functionality of the system itself, but the app UI leaves much, much to be desired.For one, there is no way to view history. So if I want to know when was the last few times the sprinkler turned on and for how long, I don’t have that data.Also, I’ve often pressed buttons in the app and there has been no change in state. Recently I tried to enable a 24hr rain delay and i couldn’t. The button didn’t change. Now it might have been a connection issue but there was no way for me to know, the app didn’t tell me anything. It lets me press a button but then nothing changes. I also run into this quite frequently when trying to manually turn on a sprinkler. I’ll press a button and nothing will happen.The way that irrigation plans are displayed is very confusing and forces me to scan too much info. I want to see a schedule or a calendar and see what’s coming up. I don’t want to have to parse everything myself.There’s no way to change to a DD/MM/YYYY date format, which is very frustrating.There doesn’t appear to be a way to reset or delete an irrigation plan, only a disable control. And you can only have three plans per spigot, which is frustrating. The UI for creating “Scenes” is so inscrutable, I don’t even use it.The general information architecture of the app is terrible.

I purchased this to replace a HomeKit enabled Eve sprinkler controller that never lasted more than a year before it failed to shut off the water.So far, I’ve been able to configure three plans to water my balcony planter box three times a day, which seems to work well. However, I thought this product would also tally my actual water usage, but it doesn’t appear to do that. After my first day of use, nothing appears in the sensor/water flow table. I don’t have a separate sensor, but the water flow display option doesn’t appear anywhere else in the app, so thought it should appear there to show usage when the working timers run. I emailed the developer to ask about this, and am awaiting its response.