Poorly designed, but does work
I agree with other reviewers, the app does work so that earns some starts but it’s poorly designed and poorly laid out. Everything that you want to do is at least 5 different steps, the menus aren’t intuitive, and it takes forever to load every screen. It desperately needs an overhaul and more quick actions. I think it’s fair to assume if a user only has one device they’d want that device to load automatically? Obviously? But nope that’s an extra 2 clicks every single time you even open the app.
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App needs a patch to fix glitches
Glitchy app with too many issues
POS
How do you keep selling these when they don’t work!!! MELNOR as a company is really screwed up!! You see these reviews but havnt done anything to resolve it!! Took mine back and was the best thing I’ve ever done!!
Great option for its function
If you’re looking for something easy to program and control from your phone, this app is very helpful. You do have to be in range of the unit to make adjustments, but it is so much easier to use than other timer units I’ve owned. The app is such a useful tool. Once you understand the function of it, it’s a breeze to operate.
Don’t buy this and expect to control it from a remote location. The water unit doesn’t connect to your WiFi. It’s only controlled through your phones Bluetooth. I may be in the minority, but I don’t need to control my sprinklers when I’m not at home, so this doesn’t bother me.
Don’t buy this and expect to control it from a remote location. The water unit doesn’t connect to your WiFi. It’s only controlled through your phones Bluetooth. I may be in the minority, but I don’t need to control my sprinklers when I’m not at home, so this doesn’t bother me.
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Frustration
Once set up they seem to be reliable but the process of setting them up, modifying or checking on the schedule is extremely stupid. As other reviewers have said the spinning wheel, proximity and number of steps to dig into the functions is such a time waster. I wanted to buy a third one but I will not. I’ll use the two I already invested in until they quit working. I am on my second season with both but a prior, non-BT model failed. I’ll find a different manufacturer for my next purchase. It seems a WiFi link would be stronger and more functional than BT.
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Horrible, horrible horrible!
Let’s make this really easy, don’t buy this product. I really don’t understand how a company like this, continues to let an app be out there with their name on it. It is so bad. I got a four port sprinkler from their company and tried to set it up with this app because that’s the only way you can set up the sprinkler. I could not even find where you could set the time of when you want your sprinkler to go on. Honestly, barely anything works on this app. From the revision history, you can see they made revisions a long time ago and then it looks like they gave up. Melnor wake up!
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Genuinely Awful
The product that this app is for seems to work really well, but good god is this app awful. It’s so awful that it should very much make you think twice about selecting this particular Bluetooth watering timer. Melnor needs to spend some money on a legitimate developer to build them a new app as right now it isn’t user friendly in the slightest, doesn’t describe what settings do what, things are buried deep within multiple submenus, and simply does not have nearly as many features or customization options as other similar products.
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Exactly what it’s supposed to
It does exactly what it’s supposed to, I read some reviews and I almost didn’t buy it. It’s great I like it’s simple functional design, it’s Bluetooth and like any other Bluetooth device the connection range is limited, it’s not connected to a network. This device works great.
Very bad device
Don’t buy it ! I changed the battery and then I never to be able to make a connection through Bluetooth. I bought different battery it never worked again : lost time and money . Last year I have had the same problem and for a weird reason the device had decided to work this spring. Tool NO RELIABLE.
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Doesn’t Allow Multiple Users
This app is ok, does the job in terms of watering. A previous review mentions no end time for the intervals and that is definitely a downside, however my bigger issue with this app is that my partner and I both use this app for watering and as soon as he uses it, it won’t work on my end and vice versa. We’re both constantly deleting and redownloading the app to use it as one of us “disables” it for the other. It’s super annoying!!! This seems to be a bug that I hope is fixed very soon.
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