LinkTap G2S Smart Water Timer & Gateway, Weather Aware, Intelligent Fault Detection & Alerts, Wider Range Than WiFi Hose Timer, Automatic Watering System for Garden, Lawn & Yard, Scalable Mesh Network

Update:Linktap replied immediately. Bingo. A piece of plumber's tape had fallen into the valve. My bad. I always felt these were 5 star products. Now? 6 stars after seeing the insides to free the valve. Of course, I only speak when freaked.Two stars for 1.6 years before it failed to stop water flow even with the switch off. Lost faith. Was 5 star until this. Normally a failure like this warrants a 1 star, but the product has otherwise exceeded my expectations.I've been using a g2s since August 2023. Batteries are good. But it stopped turning off, even with the switch off, with new batteries, etc. Since the valve is enclosed, I cannot inspect it.The D1 is ok so far, but now I feel a need to put a manual timer downstream in case it too fails.I was about to buy the 4-zone product. Now, I will look for alternatives.If they can resolve I will update this review. I do not have product support. Shouldn't need it.

Easy to program from the app. So if on vacation you can change the settings from the phone. Lots of options like multiple watering a day and different duration or skip a day etc. No leaking. Durable and water resistant. Another thing I like is the button on the timer it self. I can turn the water manually to see if I have leaks and turn it off manually or set in the app the duration of manual watering.

I needed to go out of town for a week and we are in year 3 of a drought, which means I had to set up an irrigation system. I read the reviews and chose 5 plain LinkTap timers (red circles) and 1 with the flow meter (yellow). Rather than having to "trust" a long hose across my property under constant pressure (even if high pressure hose, the quality is unknown), I used the flow meter as a "Master" at the faucet. While that would allow the security to put timers at a distance (1 long hose across the property with splitters and multiple timers at that end), I started with everything at the source.My faucet is low and the timers have some weight to them, especially using 6 of them! To help hold the weight, I supported them with a metal hose reel. The lime green splitters were from the local dollar store and worked great. The orange and yellow quick connects made setup and removal easier.The flow meter was important for getting it all programmed. I watered manually and used the data from the flow meter to identify how long to run each timer. I set it up for the minimum I would need each day, knowing I could double it in areas if needed during the drought.It worked great, giving me full access from another state via my phone. I haven't used the rain skip yet (saw reviews that the forecasts weren't the best), but so far they look like they would work fine. But there is a simple red (STOP) and green (START) option to suspend and restart the all the timers with one click that I used to manually skip for rain.I've been pleasantly surprised upon returning home that it is so much easier to let this system run on its own. I thought I might go back to doing it manually but haven't yet. It will be very cumbersome to have to run them and time them myself once I have to put the timers away due to cold temps.My only criticisms are with the software, like the flow meter graph would be better if it did volume instead of time (time is irrelevant when the water pressure is inconsistent). More significant, though was the structure of the timer schedules. There are two independent systems in the software. In the "batch" system you can identify which timer to run for a specific time and then you can set the start time (or in my case the Master+ the timer can run together). But it doesn't allow sequencing them, it is only 1 timer/hose done once.The second system is much more cumbersome, especially with a (duplicate) master timer for recording volume. This system has exact times of day to start and you pick the frequency of the days (Master on 7:00 for 2 min, backyard on 7:00 for 2 min, repeat for each section of the yard with exact times).Maybe I'm missing something, but it would be easier to design the batch plans (Master 1 minute, backyard 1 minute, + the rest of the sequence) and then choose START TIME for the whole batch and REPEAT FREQUENCY (1 time only, daily, every other day, etc.). That would make it easy to move the start times later as the temperatures cooled and to add a 2nd run in extreme drought situations. But maybe that's harder than it sounds.But the timers have worked great and the software is manageable with some nice features. This project took me about a month and probably cost about $1500 with the timers and the hoses and sprinklers and soakers and all the hardware (connectors, splitters). The Eden sprinklers were a little tricky due to water pressure issues. The most that worked in my yard were 5 on a timer/hose at a time, but 4 was better. The soakers could cover more area, but were harder to install where there was a ground cover to snake around. It was quite an adventure that worked out great. Thanks LinkTap!

I needed something for my SO's garden since we were going on vacation and she wanted something left alive when we got back :) :) I spent two weeks surfing reviews and basically came to the conclusion that the overwhelming majority of timers out there are absolute overpriced garbage. Just cheap, barely up to the level of throwaway, crap from China.Then I stumbled across the LinkTap stuff. Yes its more expensive - up front. $140 for one faucet. But its very obvious that this product is actually built to last more then one season. You WILL NOT find anything else with even close to equivalent functionality and quality for this price. Anything else will start at $50-60 and MAYBE last one season. We're in a high desert (6K ft) so while the heat isn't overwhelming (high 90's at most), the sun (UV) is brutal! Cheap plastic crap from China has a amazingly short lifespan!The app is clunky but functional. Which is fine. I want a functional product! I don't care if the app isn't a work of art. Read their directions because some things are not obvious. Also, this product will do A LOT. Also, not all of which is obvious.The web site is less clunky and still perfectly functional. The web site is NOT housed on the hub so you can control your watering remotely anywhere you have internet access.NOTE: remote access ONLY works if your hub has internet access! If the hubs internet connection goes belly up, you are SOL. This only affects YOU ACCESSING the hub and doing stuff. Whatever preexisting settings continue on as they are irrespective of whether the hub has internet access or not.The hub uses Zigbee - yea, stop jumping up and down. It is ONLY used to interface with their devices. NO. It will not integrate with a Zigbee hub! Control is only through their app or their web site.There are a bunch of things I REALLY like about this setup, but I'm not going to go through all of them.#1 on my list is being able to see water flow: whether there is any and how much. We use dripper hoses which only flow about 2gph. Not nearly what an open faucet would flow so its easy to see if someone disconnected a hose. It also reassures my paranoid SO that water ACTUALLY IS flowing. :)#2 email alerts for several things like too much flow, no flow. Not much interest if you're at home, maybe, but I'm not down with blowing through 5000 gallons of water because we were gone for a week and the lawn guys ran over a hose with the mower.#3 hub based with remote devices. The app/web site doesn't talk directly to the devices. Which is very good for us since we have a weird shaped house. Wireless connectivity at the faucet is shaky at best. Bluetooth connectivity would be non existent. I located the hub in my office about in the middle of the house where I can supply it with uninterruptible power and internet and it gets 80% connectivity to the faucet which means it work perfectly 100% of the time.#4 it is SUPER EASY to hook this to a POE (power over Ethernet) adapter and only have one wire running to my POE Ethernet switch supplying both internet and power (off my UPS). No wall wart! Another plus to this is it makes things considerably easier if you don't have a power outlet where you want to put the hub. :)#5 this setup is crazy expandable! Unfortunately, I already have a perfectly functional sprinkler system so a hub and one faucet is all I'll probably ever need. But if I were putting in a new sprinkler system, I'd seriously consider this on a larger scale.I strongly suggest looking at their web site and going though their docs. I couldn't begin to give an adequate review of everything. I strongly recommend this over EVERYTHING else on amazon!