"RainPoint, smart life, smart living 1. Remote control: control home appliances from anywhere 2. Irrigation control: easy to set irrigation sheduled,nurture beatiful lawns of your garden. 3. Simultaneously control: control multiple devices with one App 4. Timer: set timer to perform multiple functions 5. Device sharing: One tap to share devices among family members 6. Easy connection: easily and quickly connect App to devices"
Logs Me Out w/Updates
My account logs out when there is an automatic update. I'll change the settings on my phone to manual update for the RainplPoint app. As far as the pump goes, it works well. My plants not being watered for the last week+, is not something I'm happy about. Would not recommend this devise if you travel or are very busy.
Buggy
Randomly and regularly glitches to say it finished an irrigation at 3am, despite having no schedule for this. Has time and date incorrect. When you click on an irrigation day to read what happened during a session, it doesn’t take you to that instance, it just shows you the details of the very last irrigation session. I never would have bought these tools had I realized how 1. The manufacturers don’t keep the apps updated, don’t listen to feedback, and don’t check for software bugs. 2. How when your power goes out during a storm you have to reconfigure the entire system which is challenging as the instructions aren’t accurate or proofread. 3. You can’t put batteries in or take them out without taking apart the whole thing because the hose blocks the battery chamber. Absolute garbage, but yeah it waters my garden. Truly the bare minimum.
Good product but can improve
The app in general works and has a reliable planner than can set three different schedules and offers and manual control. But, the ON/OFF control for both the manual and scheduled planner is often delayed and/or non-responsive. Please update the app so that the ON/OFF control is a simple button and not a slider (since it doesn’t respond to sliding, but will respond to a tap/click)
Buggy with poor UI
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.
No longer works
It worked for a season. Now the app connects to the smart sprinkler timer but won’t control it. The schedules aren’t running. I try to set the manual timer and nothing happens. When I click “my” on the bottom right for instructions or contact I get an error message “error loading page” Sent emails, messages through the app, and called the customer service number and left a message but I haven’t been able to speak to anyone to troubleshoot the problem. Waste of both money and my time.
Support a lower water duration please!
I would give this app 5 stars if it would just decrease the minimum water duration. 20 seconds is too long for smaller plants.
Communication Issues
Gateways frequently seem to hang up while these are positioned three feet from network router. Status information is again frequently incorrect which diminishes confidence when attempting to manage while off property. Controllers seem to work correctly.
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