$113.29Original price was: $113.29.$108.17Current price is: $108.17.
Upgrade your watering routine with the Orbit B-hyve Sprinkler Controller – the ultimate solution for efficient and comprehensive watering. With over 100 active patents and industry recognition awards, we are North America’s premier company for residential watering. Our cutting-edge technology and expertise ensure that your plants receive the perfect amount of water, whether indoors or outdoors.Experience the convenience and effectiveness of our drip irrigation system, designed to save time and water. Our PVC-Lock, Blu-Lock, and Drip-Lock technologies provide secure and leak-free connections for sprinkler pipes and drip tubing, ensuring precise water distribution for healthy plant growth. Take control of your watering schedule with the WiFi hose controller, allowing you to adjust and customize your irrigation from anywhere using your smartphone.Whether you’re a residential homeowner, professional contractor, or passionate grower, our automatic sprinkler systems controller caters to your specific needs, allowing you to create a personalized and efficient watering solution. By embracing our comprehensive ecosystem of smart solutions, you contribute to responsible water usage and help secure access to safe fresh water for communities worldwide.Join the growing community of satisfied customers who have revolutionized their watering routine with the Orbit B-hyve Sprinkler Controller. Upgrade today and experience the speed, reliability, and innovation of our automatic watering system. Say goodbye to guesswork and hello to precise and efficient watering for healthier, more vibrant plants. Order now and take the first step in changing the way you water! Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No Product Dimensions : 3.75 x 9.38 x 8.63 inches; 3.44 Pounds Item model number : 57950Z Department : Unisex-Adult Date First Available : March 15, 2016 Manufacturer : Orbit Irrigation Products ASIN : B01D15HOTU Country of Origin : USA
EFFICIENT WATERING SOLUTION – The smart sprinkler controller ensures automatic watering with precision, saving you time and effort. INDOOR AND OUTDOOR PLACEMENT – This automatic watering system can be placed indoors or outdoors providing the maximum flexibility for installation in your yard or garden. SMART HOME WATERING – With our wireless sprinkler controller, you can adjust your sprinklers from anywhere, transforming your home into an intelligent oasis. VERSATILE AUTOMATIC IRRIGATION – Automatically control your sprinkler system, with automatic adjustment to weather conditions and plant watering needs.
Price: $113.29 - $108.17 (as of May 05, 2025 19:30:05 UTC – Details)
Customers say
Customers find the sprinkler controller easy to set up and use, with the app being intuitive to work with. The device functions well, with automatic postponement of watering based on local weather forecasts, and customers appreciate that there are no monthly fees. While some customers report never having WiFi connection issues, others mention connectivity problems.
8 reviews for Orbit B-hyve 12-Zone Smart Indoor/Outdoor Sprinkler Controll…
BG on Amazon –
Great product, easy to use
Received the item quickly. It was quite easy to set up, even to this elderly basic computer skilled person. It worked fine from phone to set & start zones. The only minor drawback for us is that since hose is set to a zone, it is necessary to start by phone. It can be done on the sprinkler screen, but for me that is way too cumbersome and it is actually why I wanted this controller. Setting zones, turning them off or on at will is very easy on the phone, but difficult on the controller screen. This controller has a rain delay feature, which while useful has not been entirely accurate in regard to weather. However it is simple to start the watering if there is no rain when it had been predicted. The last important thing to mention, and this is why I often wait to write reviews, is the controller stopped working after a year and some months. Orbit upheld the 2 year warranty and is sending a replacement.
Randy –
Great Product and App, Instructions to hardwire, average with Alexa
I really like this product and found it to be a great value. My land scraper told me my old timer/computer was out, but I told him I thought the cables to the sprinkler valves go cut. He insisted and I bought this one. I ended up being right (did not need the product, need new valve wiring which requires digging up the yard!), but I lucked into this gem!I hard wired mine. My input feed did not have a ground wire so I just capped unit ground wire. I hard wired mine. Take the cable run it all the way to the right of the wiring box, snake it back to the left side and the add two inches and just cut the provided outlet plug. It’s scary to intentionally permanently change a new product but you gotta do it if you are hard wiring. This was better than adding an outdoor outlet in my opinion. Turn off the power at the breaker box (turn off the power before removing the old one if this is a retrofit) Once you cut the cable, strip the wires and use small wire nuts to connect hot to hot and neutral to neutral. (Typically white to white and black to black or red; consult electrician if you are unsure)The interface with the app is intuitive and easy. Photos And labels go with each Zone so no more remembering which zone does what. The app interface is so easy I haven’t even used the manual controls on the timer… I’m sure it’s great.I give it a 4 for Alexa integration. I have three programs 1) Grass, 2) Bushes, and 3)Trees. I’d guess that’s a typical basic yard set up. These are all labeled by name. For trees and bushes the zone names actually match the program. Seems logical to me that if I say “Alexa tell b-hyve to water the bushes” that it would water the bushes only. Unfortunately it decides to water all stations. If I say “Alexa water program B” it waters program B only. That’s not great because then you have to remember what is tied to each program (my wife and kids aren’t going to remember that for sure). I put Bushes to B so that is helping me remember. I live in AZ and the most typical command for wife/kids would be “water the grass” on really hot days or when the grass is drying out or if the kids want to play in the sprinkler; but they will need to remember “Alexa run program A” which is doubtful.“Alexa tell b hyve to set a rain delay” works great. The app is supposed to know the weather for my area and self imposed rain delays, but I haven’t tested that feature. I live in Arizona so I don’t have many opportunities for it. I’m hoping to avoid the need for buying a precipitation sensor.I am testing out the smart water feature. I like to have the programs set up for impromptu watering, but b-hyve warns that the smart watering ignores the fact that a custom program may have run. So, I set up the custom programs to run on days of the week, but then I actually do not select any days of the week. Then I let smart watering do the job, but I still have the option to say “run program A” and it runs for the specified zones and run times. I may add another review if smart watering kills my lawn!!! It is saying for my grass and soil and shade to water 2xweek for 15 min. Typically I water every day for 7 min. 15 min seems like it will pool the water and 2 per week seems like it will dry it out… more to come. One annoying feature is that in Arizona we have winter grass and summer grass. You have to remember to toggle the gras type for these zones twice a year. It would be cool if they had a “over seed date” feature.
Timothy D. –
Works great, easy to replace my old timer., great app.
6 stars!My trip got extended for a few days and I had my sprinkler system off. I lost some recently planted flowers. I thought that if the controller was only wi-fi capable I could have turned it on from afar. I searched for wi-fi sprinkler controllers and was presented both Orbit and Rainbird. Both had about the same number of reviews but with the Rainbird you had to also purchase the wi-fi module which cost another $100, which is about the price of the Orbit controller. I ordered the Orbit controller and boy I am glad I did.Swapping out my old controller was super easy, just moving the wires from old to new. The best part is the app that you have to download from your phones App Store. I followed the instructions and the app found my controller right away. I then searched for my wireless router and easily connected. Next was the setup of the timer. 4 programs are available for 4 different scenarios. I set my 5 zones to start at 6:00AM every odd day and I set a second scenario that started my flowerbed zone every day at 2:00PM. I live in Florida and it is HOT here in the summer. A little extra water in the afternoon is needed.The app makes customizing your watering schedule really, really easy. The development team did a fantastic job. It uses the local forecast to automatically postpone watering if you received or will receive rain in the near future. I can now test the zones from my phone and I don’t have to run to the garage to start and stop the zones. I control it right from the zone. I am still playing around with the app but good job to the developers! The app works like I wished all of wi-fi enabled devices worked.
GM –
Muy buen control de irrigación, el precio muy bueno y la configuración muy rápida. La calidad excelente mucho mejor que la marca Rain Bird
Davide –
Prodotto di ottima qualità. Già avuto altre centraline di questa marca. Fate attenzione al voltaggio. Consigliato
Horacio Biebrich –
Me gustó lo fácil de instalar y programar y elmanejo de sus funciones con el teléfono celular
noe –
Supera las expectativas! No le pide nada, a la nueva versión de este sistema, y representa un ahorro considerable de hasta 25% valor total.
Pierre Gervais –
I replaced an Irritrol 12-zone controller with this one after it failed to turn on for an unexplained reason. Sometimes, there are purchase that bring much more value than the price you paid, and this is one of them. This unit is so much simpler and convenient to operate! It’ll save me tons of time and headache.First, instead of losing my programs every fall when I would shut down the system for the winter, the B-Hyve not only has a battery backup but my programs are stored in the app (and cloud?) as well.Then, when testing and reprogramming the system in the spring, I could never easily recall which zone was which with the Irritrol. The B-Hyve app now lets me assign meaningful names to my zones, but more importantly, it lets me associate a picture to each of the zones.Again, when testing my system in the spring, I would use the Irritrol’s 1 or 2-minute test mode that would activate the 12 zones sequentially, chasing the zones across my front and backyard to confirm they were functioning. Now, I can just walk around and activate one zone at a time remotely with my phone to test it out.Lastly, a couple of weeks ago with the old system, I received a warning from the “water patrol” because my program was ending later than the city’s prescribed watering hours. I didn’t take the time in the spring to add up the duration of each station of my main program to confirm I was within the permitted watering hours. With the B-Hyve, I can simply go into the easy to read logs to know exactly when each station operated and when the program ended.I’ve automated many appliances in the house over the last few years (light switches, thermostat, garage doors), but the B-Hyve smart watering system is the best value for the money among all of them. And I haven’t even covered all of its features in this review. If you’re facing some of the issues that I enumerated above, this is a must buy!
BG on Amazon –
Great product, easy to use
Received the item quickly. It was quite easy to set up, even to this elderly basic computer skilled person. It worked fine from phone to set & start zones. The only minor drawback for us is that since hose is set to a zone, it is necessary to start by phone. It can be done on the sprinkler screen, but for me that is way too cumbersome and it is actually why I wanted this controller. Setting zones, turning them off or on at will is very easy on the phone, but difficult on the controller screen. This controller has a rain delay feature, which while useful has not been entirely accurate in regard to weather. However it is simple to start the watering if there is no rain when it had been predicted. The last important thing to mention, and this is why I often wait to write reviews, is the controller stopped working after a year and some months. Orbit upheld the 2 year warranty and is sending a replacement.
Randy –
Great Product and App, Instructions to hardwire, average with Alexa
I really like this product and found it to be a great value. My land scraper told me my old timer/computer was out, but I told him I thought the cables to the sprinkler valves go cut. He insisted and I bought this one. I ended up being right (did not need the product, need new valve wiring which requires digging up the yard!), but I lucked into this gem!I hard wired mine. My input feed did not have a ground wire so I just capped unit ground wire. I hard wired mine. Take the cable run it all the way to the right of the wiring box, snake it back to the left side and the add two inches and just cut the provided outlet plug. It’s scary to intentionally permanently change a new product but you gotta do it if you are hard wiring. This was better than adding an outdoor outlet in my opinion. Turn off the power at the breaker box (turn off the power before removing the old one if this is a retrofit) Once you cut the cable, strip the wires and use small wire nuts to connect hot to hot and neutral to neutral. (Typically white to white and black to black or red; consult electrician if you are unsure)The interface with the app is intuitive and easy. Photos And labels go with each Zone so no more remembering which zone does what. The app interface is so easy I haven’t even used the manual controls on the timer… I’m sure it’s great.I give it a 4 for Alexa integration. I have three programs 1) Grass, 2) Bushes, and 3)Trees. I’d guess that’s a typical basic yard set up. These are all labeled by name. For trees and bushes the zone names actually match the program. Seems logical to me that if I say “Alexa tell b-hyve to water the bushes” that it would water the bushes only. Unfortunately it decides to water all stations. If I say “Alexa water program B” it waters program B only. That’s not great because then you have to remember what is tied to each program (my wife and kids aren’t going to remember that for sure). I put Bushes to B so that is helping me remember. I live in AZ and the most typical command for wife/kids would be “water the grass” on really hot days or when the grass is drying out or if the kids want to play in the sprinkler; but they will need to remember “Alexa run program A” which is doubtful.“Alexa tell b hyve to set a rain delay” works great. The app is supposed to know the weather for my area and self imposed rain delays, but I haven’t tested that feature. I live in Arizona so I don’t have many opportunities for it. I’m hoping to avoid the need for buying a precipitation sensor.I am testing out the smart water feature. I like to have the programs set up for impromptu watering, but b-hyve warns that the smart watering ignores the fact that a custom program may have run. So, I set up the custom programs to run on days of the week, but then I actually do not select any days of the week. Then I let smart watering do the job, but I still have the option to say “run program A” and it runs for the specified zones and run times. I may add another review if smart watering kills my lawn!!! It is saying for my grass and soil and shade to water 2xweek for 15 min. Typically I water every day for 7 min. 15 min seems like it will pool the water and 2 per week seems like it will dry it out… more to come. One annoying feature is that in Arizona we have winter grass and summer grass. You have to remember to toggle the gras type for these zones twice a year. It would be cool if they had a “over seed date” feature.
Timothy D. –
Works great, easy to replace my old timer., great app.
6 stars!My trip got extended for a few days and I had my sprinkler system off. I lost some recently planted flowers. I thought that if the controller was only wi-fi capable I could have turned it on from afar. I searched for wi-fi sprinkler controllers and was presented both Orbit and Rainbird. Both had about the same number of reviews but with the Rainbird you had to also purchase the wi-fi module which cost another $100, which is about the price of the Orbit controller. I ordered the Orbit controller and boy I am glad I did.Swapping out my old controller was super easy, just moving the wires from old to new. The best part is the app that you have to download from your phones App Store. I followed the instructions and the app found my controller right away. I then searched for my wireless router and easily connected. Next was the setup of the timer. 4 programs are available for 4 different scenarios. I set my 5 zones to start at 6:00AM every odd day and I set a second scenario that started my flowerbed zone every day at 2:00PM. I live in Florida and it is HOT here in the summer. A little extra water in the afternoon is needed.The app makes customizing your watering schedule really, really easy. The development team did a fantastic job. It uses the local forecast to automatically postpone watering if you received or will receive rain in the near future. I can now test the zones from my phone and I don’t have to run to the garage to start and stop the zones. I control it right from the zone. I am still playing around with the app but good job to the developers! The app works like I wished all of wi-fi enabled devices worked.
GM –
Muy buen control de irrigación, el precio muy bueno y la configuración muy rápida. La calidad excelente mucho mejor que la marca Rain Bird
Davide –
Prodotto di ottima qualità. Già avuto altre centraline di questa marca. Fate attenzione al voltaggio. Consigliato
Horacio Biebrich –
Me gustó lo fácil de instalar y programar y elmanejo de sus funciones con el teléfono celular
noe –
Supera las expectativas! No le pide nada, a la nueva versión de este sistema, y representa un ahorro considerable de hasta 25% valor total.
Pierre Gervais –
I replaced an Irritrol 12-zone controller with this one after it failed to turn on for an unexplained reason. Sometimes, there are purchase that bring much more value than the price you paid, and this is one of them. This unit is so much simpler and convenient to operate! It’ll save me tons of time and headache.First, instead of losing my programs every fall when I would shut down the system for the winter, the B-Hyve not only has a battery backup but my programs are stored in the app (and cloud?) as well.Then, when testing and reprogramming the system in the spring, I could never easily recall which zone was which with the Irritrol. The B-Hyve app now lets me assign meaningful names to my zones, but more importantly, it lets me associate a picture to each of the zones.Again, when testing my system in the spring, I would use the Irritrol’s 1 or 2-minute test mode that would activate the 12 zones sequentially, chasing the zones across my front and backyard to confirm they were functioning. Now, I can just walk around and activate one zone at a time remotely with my phone to test it out.Lastly, a couple of weeks ago with the old system, I received a warning from the “water patrol” because my program was ending later than the city’s prescribed watering hours. I didn’t take the time in the spring to add up the duration of each station of my main program to confirm I was within the permitted watering hours. With the B-Hyve, I can simply go into the easy to read logs to know exactly when each station operated and when the program ended.I’ve automated many appliances in the house over the last few years (light switches, thermostat, garage doors), but the B-Hyve smart watering system is the best value for the money among all of them. And I haven’t even covered all of its features in this review. If you’re facing some of the issues that I enumerated above, this is a must buy!