I have 3 Netro's for different properties. The system is so easy to set up and program. It allows me to monitor and manage watering preferences for each area needed. Also, I can do a "manual watering" from anywhere, for any length of time, and because it connects to a weather station, it can adjust schedule based upon rain forecasts. A great device at a great price.

Have had this device installed for about 2 months now. Very easy to install and has a great user-friendly app interface. Some controllers have physical controls, but personally, I love that it's solely controlled from the app. It's about 50% smaller than my old sprinkler control system and looks modern. The built in weather control works perfectly and has saved significant amounts of water already as compared to my prehistoric sprinkler controller from the late 90's. I would absolutely recommend this product.

This smart sprinkler system is wonderful and, what makes it amazing and puts it at the top of list for me is the customer service, and I mean customer service that I didn't think even existed anymore! My town has water restrictions that are different than most (interval restrictions allowing watering only every 3rd day, which is different depending on the house number, and only during certain hours), which was not an option when creating a new water restriction in the program. I emailed customer service and got a response the same day (thank you so much Xi!!!!). Xi took the time and effort to research my town's water restrictions, ask me specific questions and then create the special water restriction just for my system. I cannot speak highly enough of the customer support I received. Just the fact that they have a setting for areas with water restrictions is wonderful as the manual sprinkler systems were so challenging to set up around odd restrictions and some of the smart systems do not offer this option that I could find in my research. As for the sprinkler itself, set up took 5 minutes or less (installation and linking it to my smart phone). When I first starting setting up the zones I set up a schedule as I did not see a smart schedule populate (or was simply messing with it before it had a chance to set up a smart schedule) so I set up a watering schedule. Doing this created 2 sets of watering that I later had to go back and remove. I guess my eagerness and excitement of setting up the system caused the extra effort but maybe a window or pop-up to notify the user that a smart schedule will be created and/or a notification that a smart schedule has been created would be beneficial. The only other thing I found was that I had to play with the settings for a little while after my 2'x10' strip of lawn got 30 minutes of watering to figure out that there is an option to set the square footage of each zone so a smaller sized zone doesn't get the same amount of water as the larger zones as the location of this setting is not in a place I would have originally thought to look. Now that I know it is in the advanced settings within the schedule preference it was easily modified. I would recommend to the company that this be a part of the initial setup process or locating somewhere more prominently than within the schedule itself. I also had one incidence where I manually stopped the watering but the sprinklers did not respond (they continued to water despite the system saying they were off). I was able to fix the issue with a little more playing (I turned on a manual schedule and then turned that off and that fixed the problem). I cannot say if this issue was the system or a side effect of my playing with the schedule though so can in no way fault the smart system for that. I look forward to many years of watering that I don't even have to think about and am really excited to receive the 2 sensors I pre-ordered to complete my system and make the most of this smart sprinkler system, especially since I live in an area where water is almost more expensive than gold!

This was super easy to install. It's pretty straight forward. Take a pic of the old one, then put the wires in the new one and the same places that came out of the old one. This one has no screws needed to attach the wires. Press the locking part then slide the wire in the hole. Release the locking mechanism, and the wire stays put. Just make sure you have enough slack in the wires. I had to lengthen one of my wires. It was 1/16th inches too short. Go figure. I would have just lowered it, but the conduit that was in place for the wires wouldn't let me lower it. I will say this, the app has an abundance of information. It looks very overwhelming at first. The initial setup asked some questions that I didn't know the answer too, but with a few Google searches, I found the info. Once the initial App is set up, you will need to get the on-line manual and read it. Installing the hardware took less than 20 min, but learning the app took 2 hours or so. I first had to figure out what zone was where. Then I had to tell the app what type of sprinkler head is used in that zone. That was where I had to use Google. Once that was done, I had to remove all the factory presets before I could set up the zones for the amount of watering I need for each zone. The preset cycle has to run it's course before you can delete it. I'm not sure why, but it does. If you manually stop it, it will just start back up again. We don't get a lot of rain in the summer, so I needed to set up the preset's for longer water times in the summer and shorter in. The fall, winter, spring, and so on. You can actually set up a 4 season schedule where it runs longer between this date and that date, and shorter for this date to that. It also will look at the local weather and skip watering on rainy days. Pretty nice. Over all, for the price this is well worth it. Just to not have to remember to go out to the garage to turn on or off the sprinklers is awesome.

Product looks great and it’s compact and you pay the price for it! The user interface is terrible and when you program start times sometimes they work sometimes they don’t I did sprinklers professionally for 8+ years and never seen anything this bad. Bough a Hunter like I Should have and everything works perfectly! The worst part is I kept trying to make it work not realizing I had less than a month in this sellers return policy! Looks for another seller if you dare try this product out!

My 20+ year old original toro box finally met its maker. I tried stepping into some new technology here, albeit with some reservations around performance and complexity. This product was so quick and easy to set up, directions were well written and easy to follow. No problems connecting to my wifi, and within 30 minutes of starting the install process, I was manually operating zones from my phone while standing in my driveway. Programing zones and watering cycles was pretty easy, lots of options, and very intuitive I thought.

Helper!! Before we didn’t use this one, front yard grass became yellow every summer. After we use this one we can set up the watering time and the grass looks perfect this summer!

This is an excellent sprinkler timer. The best feature is that you can connect this to an app on your phone to control all the functions with wifi access at your home. You can turn your water on and off, set the schedule and a whole lot more. I needed a 6 station and a 12 station and I can view both of them on the same app too. I would highly recommend this product. And it's quality made.

I used to have a Rachio in my old house and when I moved into my new house, I was saddened to see the outdated sprinkler system. So I was tempted to buy another Rachio. However, I ultimately went with the Netro for the following reasons: 1. My new house actually has two systems - one that's 12 zones and another that's 6 zones. That fit the Netro specs perfectly! Rachio comes in 8 and 16 zone models so now I don't feel I'm wasting zones. 2. The price was cheaper than the Rachio. Who doesn't like saving money? :) 3. My new house has watering restrictions where I can only water on even days (since my house number is even). It was great to see Netro hooked into the water authority here and knew that right away. Trying to water every other day with the Rachio was a little annoying because you can only pick what days of the week you want to water so you would always inevitably end up watering two days in a row (or skip two days in a row). 4. Netro apparently comes with a plant database and a separate "Wisperer" unit that tracks sunlight, temperatures, and soil moisture. I have yet to use these features but it's nice to know they're there. One pleasant surprise was that this controller was smaller than I thought. I had actually purchased the Orbit outdoor box to go along with this because one of the old controllers was outside. Turns out I didn't need the recommended Orbit box because this unit fit perfectly inside the old box I had (see photo). I just had to take out the old controller, which came off easily at the hinge and reuse the weatherproof box. I was so great that I didn't need to unscrew and re-screw anything. I can tell you there's no way the Rachio would have fit in there. So with that said, here are some of the improvements I'd like to see: a) It would be great to see have some manual controls on the controller itself. Right now the only way to control it is on your phone. There are cases when my landscaper might need to adjust something and to be honest, I'm not sure how tech savvy he is. b) The user interface can use a little improvement. I don't find it super intuitive how to create my own schedule. I find myself fighting with what the controller wants to do based on the weather. c) Better diagnostics. For whatever reason when I first hooked up everything, none of the sprinklers were actually turning on. So I had to take out all the wires and redo everything from scratch. And it worked this time. Shouldn't this unit at least be smart enough to know when wires are plugged into it or not? So if I want to turn on zone 1 and there's nothing plugged into zone 1 (from it's perspective), shouldn't it know that? d) Alexa integration. Like I said, I have two of these units. Alexa only supports commands such as "Alexa, ask Netro to water zone 1 for 5 minutes". But zone 1 of which unit? I can easily switch between units on the app but with Alexa, it seems there's no good way to do this (or at least not that I found). Other than that, the controller does it's job and I'm happy with it!

This smart sprinkler controller has been amazing! I don’t have to worry about it or program anything. It waters based on the weather, soil type, and shade level.