Hayward AquaConnect® User Reviews

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Bad technology no support

I have an error of showing lost link. I rebooted my Internet and the entire Hayward system as well as the Hayward controller. Nothing has worked. I called Hayward customer support. They did not help me at all. They do not support their product. They told me to call a technician and pay them to troubleshoot why my equipment will not connect to their website. Disappointingly terrible technology with the worst rating that you could give a company. I paid over $4000 for this pool heater and remote system. I cannot believe that Hayward is so poor at supporting their products I would never.buy Another Hayward product again. I will tell all of my friends and family to never buy Hayward products again.
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Fire Your Pool Gu If He Installed This

My pool guy just added this hardware and app to my phone. It makes Windows 98 look cutting edge. Total garbage. Pentair is better at everything than Hayward.

Garbage

What garbage for a company like Hayward, tech support is horrible and the app is the worse of the worse
I wish I would have known better

Server Always Down

Server is always down. I can never view or control my pool. System will be up for 2 days and down for 6

C’mon Hayward! 4 years?

This app is terrible! It has not been updated in four years. It is slow and unresponsive. You spend all this money to have this technology and you expect that the manufacturer will keep things up-to-date.

Can’t turn hot tub on

Unreal how bad this app is. I swear they hired a 15 year old vibe coder. They recently took away the ability to turn on the hot tub remotely. I’ll never buy another Hayward product.

Great concept, bad execution

I absolutely love the idea of connecting to my pool remotely with the app, however the app is slow, unreliable and not consistent enough to be useful. PLEASE work on it and update the app!! Pretty please???

Never works

Ok 1/10 times it worked

Horrible

Very slow and unreliable since day one

Atrociously Bad - No connection, wrong info

This app/technology seriously needs a redo or fixing. I am constantly pressing the buttons (like 10-15 times) hoping it will actually connect and do what I’m trying to get into (for example, I may hit the Menu button 10-15 times before it actually brings it up). Additionally, the information like “current pool temp” will say things like 100 even though the pool is 72. <- it will display whatever the last settings menu thing is rather that what it is actually at so managing from afar is next to impossible. You guys seriously need to redo this.
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Unable to get password

No support.

Worst tech ever!

I’m beginning to think this is no longer a valid app. I can’t get reconnected, the support hasn’t emailed me my password in over a month even though it says it found my details and would send a PW asap. Well I guess they are full of it! Email that is because I even sent an email to the support email as it asks and that bounced back. Hate this app I’m questioning if I should just look for a new automation solution.
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Who else is there?

It is sad how bad this is. But I heard pentair is just awful too. Anybody who is planning on using this should be aware of the 20% success rate I have connecting with the website. Which is the only way this works - it regularly says unable to connect to the cloud----- frustrating

DO NOT GET THIS

This whole system is a mess. Do not go with it. Look into another system. Besides issues with not responding when it turned on. After few years the aqua connect stopped working and it cost $700 for just network connect unit.
BEWARE.

Frustrating

If this is your only option then you have no choice, however if you can upgrade to the Omni logic then I would suggest you do that. The AquaConnect doesn’t work half the time and when it does it’s delayed and has really laggy responses. Waste of time and money purchasing the AquaConnect home base station.
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Terrible app

The app is terrible in multiple ways, but the two most frustrating ways is that they do not have a number pad to punch in your desired temperature. You have to click up and down one number at a time. The reason this is so horrible is because there is a both a time delay for it to speak to the system and you often get a error message that it cannot speak to the system. Our home and backyard are fully equipped with wifi and this is the only app I have that consistently has connectivity issues. If they had a number pad you would not get so many error messages because you wouldn’t have to scroll one number at a time and their website is no better. Truly awful. The latest update only allows one person to be logged in at a time. Our next house will absolutely not have Hayward tech at all.
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Joke of a app

Constantly having issues. Works great one day the next day no connection to base. Sometimes Still able to see current temps, but will not control pump or light.

Terrible

Interface is outdated and slow to respond and support is even worse.

Off line again

In the last year system goes down
No one seems to know what is wrong . I was told I need to update to a new system . I purchased this system when I purchased my pool 5 years ago . This system should have updates . Very disappointing that dolphin pools sold a older version .

Worst app ever

Very complicated to set up and if you manage to connect it will fail most of the time. This reminds me of the first ever apps for cell phones. What a nightmare! 1995 calling!