You can adjust your watering session between 1 second and 99 minutes, and set your watering frequency from every hour up to 15 days. How do tap timers work? The GARDENA smart Water Control is an add-on product to an existing GARDENA Garden smart set network. If this is your first GARDENA smart set product, buy the smart Water Control set that also has the smart Gateway as this is the controller for the network. A useful feature of this GARDENA smart timer towards the end of the growing season is the temperature sensor. The sensor keeps an eye on falling temperatures and you’re notified through the app when frost is on the way. This gives you a prior warning to start shutting down your garden before your plants are hit by overnight cold temperatures and are unnecessarily harmed. Pros This system is quite a bit more flexible and powerful the other systems on our list and is even expandable if you want to go further. Set schedules of up to seven watering periods per day through the Eve app to suit the changing weather.

Suitable for use with garden sprinklers, low-pressure micro-irrigation systems and water butts irrigation. The Zilker Smarter Water Hose Timer was a really great water timer system that tied in with local weather data to water your garden and lawn as efficiently as possible. It also featured a great leak-detection system, which was quite helpful. The timer is surprisingly small and compact, weighing only 1.04 pounds. It is very easy to install and manage with the help of the instruction manual. A unique feature of the timer is the co-management feature, whereby you can add any family member to be part of the home irrigation management. The Bottom Line

While Melnor’s app doesn’t have as nice a UI or UX as the Zilker app, it is compatible with iOS, Android, and web devices. We find its design to be reasonably consistent and functional, and for the most part, works as expected. It allows you to water up to four different zones at once with varying methods, such as automatic, manual, or at the moment by yourself.

The Eva Aqua is part of the Eva range of smart products that work together to create a smart home. You control the Eva Aqua through its app, by typing, or by talking to Siri, whichever you prefer. The sleek-looking timer is weatherproof and resistant to UV rays so it sits comfortably on your outside tap. Water timers are an absolute game changer, especially if your going on holiday or away at the weekends with work, or simply not around when you would prefer to water, such as early morning. They are also very useful if you lay new turf or reseeded your lawn, as I recently did in spring. I connected my water timer to my lawn sprinkler, so I could ensure it got watered twice a day for a certain period of time until it was germinated and established. I always used to recommend this to my clients, and they often asked which water timer I would get, so this guide answers that. Orbit Buddy HF Single-Port Digital Tap Timer– Very easy to set up and use, very good quality and has all the essential features without the complicated setting. Personally tested!No matter what power source you opt for, it's a good idea to take your time and hose inside when the temperature drops near or below freezing. Real-time push notifications for watering status and equipment failures are sent out to your mobile device. Functionally, it delivers the most consistent performance with its app, and how it syncs to the faucet or hose for smart watering.

All smart water timers need to have a hub that stands between them and your internet router. If you already have smart garden appliances – perhaps your irrigation system, your lighting setup or a robotic lawnmower– then you already have a hub for that brand of devices. It makes sense to buy a smart timer that works with the hub you already have if it can handle another appliance this is often the most affordable option as you then just need the timer itself. There are some advanced models of water timers that allow you to set different run times and patterns for different areas of your garden. For instance, you may want your raised beds watered only once a day, but your pots watered twice times. Finding a timer that can allow you to set different zones can help solve this puzzle. You’ll be able to select different settings for your lawn and another area that doesn’t need much watering and avoid starving one part of your garden or avoiding water logging the other. Analog or Digital Operation Some of these products work significantly better than others, and the whole product category is pretty new. Whether its a smoother interface on the app, having more options to control it, or generally being easier to use, there are often significant differences between products. Instead of building a custom interface, many of these water timers use the Smart Home app, which is sort of a universal app for controlling smart devices in your home. The LED screen on the face of the timer displays the irrigation status, the signal strength and the battery status. All issues necessary for the successful operation of the irrigation system. Odd-Even Day Mode – Set up watering on either odd or even days of the week and set the time and duration. 7 day water model

Smart Water Timers

Manual selection–in line with the ability to set the start time, frequency, duration and finish time, make certain that your water timer model has manual selections. Rain delay–most water timers integrate the rain delay feature, which can interrupt the set patterns and stop the flow of water for given intervals (24 hours, 48 hours or 72 hours). This is especially handy when it rains. Programming this water timer is quite simple. By removing the control panel, you can set the irrigation frequency, duration and start using the appropriate button. Basically, there are four keys with distinct functions; frequency, watering duration, start time pre-selection and confirmation. The Netro Pixie Smart Hose Faucet Timer offers advanced technology that makes it worthy of its steep price tag. This single-hose timer has smart capabilities, so you can create custom watering schedules and monitor water usage right from your smartphone. The app takes weather forecasting into account and will adjust the watering schedule based on the conditions in your area. You can further tailor the schedule to comply with local watering rules and restrictions. Thanks to all these smart abilities, this timer can help you save water—and it’s certified by the EPA’s WaterSense program. This system connects to a garden hose spigot and is controlled with an app available on iOS and Android.