A “Not Smart” Smart Sprinkler – HydraWise Irrigation Review

The weather data provided by the weather stations is inaccurate and delayed. The stations are not near my home, so their weather doesn’t match my house. Result: the sprinklers often are running while it’s raining, or after it has rained. I can download any number of weather apps which know the weather at any location in the US. But this app doesn’t know. The app itself is bad. It’s clearly a web app ported to mobile. As a result, its touch responsiveness is bad and it feels slow. Page transitions are terrible. It’s missing major features. Once a program starts, I cannot stop the whole program. I often need to do that because it’s running while it’s raining. The only thing you can do is stop an individual zone once it has started. So, I need to check back with the app every 20mins and stop each zone as it starts. Ridiculous. A smart sprinkler system is about good software. Clearly Hunter doesn’t agree and just assumes their distributors will sell whatever product they provide, even when the software is clearly sub par.
Review by Jdrosen on HydraWise Irrigation.