If you have a master valve the sprinklers will never turn on. The master valve just opens and shuts immediately. This is because the controller only provides around a second or two of current to the valve before stopping current resulting in the valve opening and immediately closing.
If you remove the master valve from the system you end up with a problem where the zones will turn on but will never turn off. Basically watering indefinitely until manual intervention is done to turn off the zone by disconnecting power to the zone or by disconnecting power to the entire device.
Great looking device but totally useless as basic manual watering even directly from the device doesn’t work. I have 3 of these and they all behave the same so it’s not an isolated issue either sadly.
This seems to be related to the bug in firmware 1.0.7 which is still not resolved for me in 1.0.10, need a way to run older firmware on this as I feel firmware 1.0.4 would work
@fooboi
Sorry about the delay in getting back to you, they are looking into the logs and a support ticket has been created, I will get you more info when I have it.
The wyze sprinkler controller is not worth the problems. We don’t have time, nor should we have to troubleshoot and reprogram the schedules weekly. It’s one thing after another. The newest issue is the schedule run get stuck on one zone but the app shows the correct zone is on. The ones zone continues to run when it shows another zone is on.
Man! Crazy to hear people are having issues! I’ve had this controller for several years now and have not had one single issue with it. I only found out recently it was discontinued a few years ago . It’s honestly worked so well for me that I have never had to seek out support, which must be why I never knew it got axed. It worked good so I never looked back. I honestly came here for information on the rain and soil sensor and see if if I could get my hands on a used one somewhere?
I’ve been using the sprinkler controller since it came out (2020?). Never had issues except with Wi-Fi dropping since it’s in the garage (ten feet from the mesh node). But then again, every Wyze product I have had has issues with connection.
But today I found out that Zone 1 is dead at the terminal connector. All other terminals (zones) are fine, and the app and controller show Zone 1 as watering (when it’s not). I switched wires so I know it’s not the wiring or valve solenoid.
Any suggestions before I reset everything and hope I don’t have to go back to Orbit or Rainbird?
. It’s honestly worked so well for me that I have never had to seek out support, which must be why I never knew it got axed. It worked good so I never looked back. I honestly came here for information on the rain and soil sensor and see if if I could get my hands on a used one somewhere?