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Old 01-16-2025, 08:35 AM
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My last 3 homes I put in the b-hyve Orbit smart controller. I’ve replaced over a dozen of my friends old worthless controllers with the b-hyve controller. I think they cost around $50-$70 for a 4 station. If you can use a screwdriver, it will take you 5 minutes to swap controllers and mount the unit in the network box. It’s pretty easy to configure it, probably 15-30 minutes to get that done. Now running it in SMART mode, it will run the stations when needed and it will vary the amount of time each station will run based on the criteria you put in and from the data it receives from the weather station you assign to it.
I bought my own personal weather station so my b-hyve get very accurate weather data