Eve Aqua (Apple Home) – Smart water controller for Apple Home app or Siri, irrigate automatically with schedules, easy to use, remote access, no bridge, Bluetooth, Thread, black

This is the third one I have bought to automate my garden watering. I now have one for the grass, one for the plants and one for a general hose pipe.Two of the units are scheduled to turn on at certain times for certain durations. They have all been reliable. I had a little trouble with range however since adding more Eve products around the home and garden, their connectivity has improved.

Looks great compared to others. Easy to setup. No need for a hub, just the Eve app or Apple Homekit. Automations work well so plants get their drink in time every day. Like the fact it also works with (controls) 3rd party 6 way water distributors like Gardena.

Because it is battery operated, when it turns off your HomeKit system won’t know and it will show that it’s been watering constantly. Flowrate has to be entered by hand. It easily added 2 shortcut to pause the watering, but they only work when it’s currently watering.I’ve added my home location and hopefully set it not to water if there a 50% chance of rain

I bought this product to be able to water a lawn remotely and when I felt it was needed. I set it up according to the instructions and everything seemed fine. That was until I was about 15 feet away, then the app said the product was unreachable. I read and reread the very minimalist documentation - similar in design to Apple products. The main difference between this product and an Apple product is that Apple's work, this doesn't. Without another piece of equipment you cannot connect to this item with Wifi - you can only use Bluetooth and only within a few feet.At this moment, I'm looking through a window at the item, it's about 12 ft away and it's "unreachable". Totally useless. Don't buy.

Eve aqua is well worth the investment. The eve app makes it simple to configure and it has integration with apple HomeKit. There is also added thread support that connects to HomePod mini and appleTV.

Setup was great works brilliantly only criticism is the scheduling is a bit clunky could be made much easier in the app

This eve product, like all their products works really well.Due to the way apple have set up sprinklers in HomeKit you are not able to create automations in the home app off the bat. However, if you first create a scene in the eve app to turn the eve aqua on you can then view that scene in the apple home app and create automations with that scene. The eve aqua automatically turns itself off after a user defined time set within the eve aqua accessory in the home app.Overall a great product and I would wholeheartedly recommend, yes the eve app can be tricky to navigate but it’s a lot more powerful than the apple home app and allows you to create complex automations that are not possible within the home app. (For example sensors that are not exposed in the apple home app are exposed in the eve app, I.e Tado TRV’s expose humidity in the eve app to create automations but they don’t in the apple home app)

Works great. Seamless integration with the Apple home app and siri. Only problem is after 1 year of usage this thing leaks like a sieve so is pretty useless, unless you enjoy wasting water.