Anyone have a Moen Smart Sprinkler controller?

jbhtexas

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Our yard has widely-varying moisture needs because lawn/garden/flower beds/raised beds/sun/shade/etc. So, being it's 2025 with AI and all, I figured technology could help with this, and I ran across the Moen Smart Sprinkler controller, which is interesting because you can add a WiFi moisture sensor to each zone which can adjust the watering in that zone based on soil moisture. It's not that expensive. However, I checked the reviews that this controller gets on various sites that sell it, and it gets very mixed reviews. On Home Depot, the majority of the 2025 reviews are 1-2 stars, but it also gets frequent 5 stars on other sites. The biggest complaints are that the controller often falls off the WiFi and has to regularly be rebooted, and also the app/controller is buggy such that it doesn't water the zones as expected.

Just curious if anybody here has one, and what your experience has been.

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ackatch

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I don't have Moen, but I do have a Rachio smart controller and LOVE it. Only issue is my sprinkler maintenance guy has to run each zone manually when he does the winterization.