GARDENA smart system 4+

I use this app with Gardena’s drip line watering system. A big garden and three lines, and the app / timer works great with the auto-changer to water as desired and cycle through the three watering networks.

Also useful to temporarily connect to the hose and can switch on an off at a distance from the tap. Makes life so much easier!

For what it’s intended for, it’s a very functional application. Managing multiple irrigation devices over Wi-Fi saves a lot of time compared to doing all of this manually. A couple of issues that I would love developers to spend more time on: (1) would be nice to be able to pause all schedules in one click (2) automatic schedules lack flexibility . I really like the idea of the automatic schedule, taking into account forecasts, disk/dawn times, but in order to use them, I miss one important feature: I want to control the amount of watering time myself. The app does it for you, but it doesn’t know all the details about my plants and irrigation. I would strongly prefer to do it myself.

A solid system so far but has so much more potential. The “smart” system isn’t really there. This app needs to be more flexible with scheduling, sensitivity to rain forecast should be an option. Temperature fails to show up on garden home screen. Otherwise is it a reliable system which is definitely worth the investment and most importantly the developers listen to feature requests and update the app regularly.