Melnor Start User Reviews

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Crashes instantly on on ios16.5 stay far away

No quality insurance in this piece of software
Crashes on ios16.5
No other way to use the melnor valves

Doesn’t work any more

No longer able to connect to wifi. Worked for a few years and now the whole system is useless.

Bad

Does not work with our iPhone X or newer. The app starts but it does not recognize the Wifi network. We needed to boot up our old iPhone 4S to get it to work. Without our 4S the whole unit would be useless.

Can’t get the WiFi SSID to reconnect.

It works great the first time setting it up. Trying to reconnect the WiFi this year and it doesn’t work. Very frustrating.

Piece o crap

Don’t work at all

Useless.

Just...useless. Impossible to configure, and somehow Melnor’s support just keeps getting worse.

Not working with iOS 12

I had it configured a year ago, but no luck now with iPhone iOS 12.2. I had to use old iPad. Application needs compatibility update!!!

In need of some work

This app needs some work. Seems like this has potential to be a really great app, but it’s very difficult to use in it’s current state.

Doesn’t work on iPhone X

This sucks, it does nothing on iPhone 10.

Needs work

Idea is great. Execution is challenging.

-Horrible setup process. ( I still need help if someone can call me)

-separate setup app from usage app

-no support available

App crashes

Doesn't connect and just crashes after a few mins. Trash product...period.

Thanks for trying

I love the idea of this Melnor WiFi water timer but there seem to be a few shortcomings.

Be aware of the following:
- 2.4 and 5 GHz bands in your router must have different names
- Your router must support 802.11 b/g legacy settings
- This app does not allow you to change the SSID after you type it in so you get one shot at success!
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Doesn't work

I can log into the website and control my until just fine. However, the app doesn't do anything. It just keeps trying to log in to my wifi. I'm not even sure why it would need to do that.

Works OK

I recently purchased this device. Set up was painless but disappointed you have to log into a site versus using an app for use or programming. Time will tell if I have use issues but so far it works ok.

Awful

can’t set up
nowhere on product page does it even say what type of batteries it needs, or if they are included (4 AA’s, not included)
was told by support that it ‘sometimes’ doesn’t work with Apple routers. Was sent a PDF document in terrible english that advises me to set up a guest network for it… still doesn’t set up.
waste of time, money
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