RAINPOINT Smart Digital Wireless Plant Moisture Meter Houseplants Indoor WiFi Hub Kit with Low/High Moisture Alert,Real-time Monitor Hygrometer Sensor Outdoor Gardening Push Notification&Email

This is the only smart soil meter I can find on the market that has a display screen on the device itself,so I don’t need to use my phone all the time. Connectivity is stable. APP is easy to navigate and quite functional for plant owners. If wanna check remotely and record moisture level data via the app, buy the sensor + hub version and you can add many extra sensors under the same gateway. This is fairly useful if you have multiple plants or hanging plants. Otherwise, the sensor only version is good enough. I grow dozen of perennials and some veggies either indoor or in backyard and always forget which ones I have watered or not. To keep my plants alive and healthy is never easy! THIS SOIL METER DOES HELP A LOT! Now it is so easy to tell if my plants need a drink while I walk by or check on phone when I’m away. The app allow monitoring moisture level changes over time,so I can adjust my watering plans accordingly. Have 5 of this for now, might get more later. The only downside is the probe is not long enough for some large potted plants. Other than that, this is one of the most useful plant care tool I've ever used. It does bring me peace of mind and keep my plants happier.

These work fantastic at keeping track of moisture while we’re away. It also gives outside temperature which is super helpful. Had them 3 months so far have not needed to change batteries.

Spyware - beware. Rainpoint’s newer items aren’t supported by the old app (which had no processing of user data, allowed manual set up of items), instead users are directed to a new app which processes user data, is deceptively designed to not work unless additional permissions are granted (access to your location, WiFi permissions, etc.) which are not actually required to pair the probes to the hub and your WiFi network. I have a separate IOT network for all my devices and could not get this stuff to work securely without compromising access to personal identifiable information. As for the probe itself, I bought one stand alone probe and liked it. Decided to get the kit with WiFi and was shocked to find out they weren’t compatible with the Rainpoint-TY app, then disturbed by the design of the new Rainpoint Home app. Additionally, the probe that came with the kit seemed lower quality (reads 85% moisture when in a glass of water?!). Maybe a fluke, maybe a sign of Rainpoint’s new corporate priorities - data mining over product quality. So sad, they had historically provided good products. Suggest to avoid them going forward.

Comes with the hub it needs so no confusion there. This runs out of juice faster than the the one without a display (of course). I just use rechargeable batteries and have it sent a notification/message to my email when the batteries get low. If you have multiple of these have you message include the number you lable it as (i forget if you write the message yourself or if its a pre-set/template)

It reduced my water usage since I can now track the humidity of the soil. Did not work with home assistant consistently so I had to return it

This works! I had previously bought the Ecowitt system for soil monitoring .. its was very old technology so I retuned it. The RainPoint system is a much more modern system. I had this connected within 5 minutes and then added the soil monitor .. its the similar technology to something like Arlo Cameras or SimplySafe where you connect the hub to Wifi and then add the various pieces to build your system .. RainPoint is like Arlo for gardening .. I'm using the soil monitors to make sure my citrus trees get watered in the summer months while I'm gone.. last year the water timer died and it was a month before I figured out the problem and the trees were damaged .. This Rain Point system will hopefully catch it sooner this time .. it saved 24 or 30 days worth of data .. the app on the iphone is easy to use. I now have both 2 more soil monitors after the 1st one connected and worked so easily.

UPDATE: After investigating our connection problems further, I discovered that our Alexa units scattered throughout our house connected to each wireless moisture sensor without permission! I believe this is another attempt by Alexa to collect more private information, and in doing so, they seem to have malfunctioned the RainPoint application on my phone, costing me four or five hours of time sniffing through the Alexa skills application to find the problem. Their Homgar smart application was screwing up the application. The Alexa group just turned it on us without asking. That is pretty rich! Enough is enough Hey Alexa, keep your hands off my private stuff unless I say it's okay! That was a small invasion of privacy, but seriously, STOP sneaking around inserting stuff into our programs and applications and slowing them down or fouling up applications that we want to use without Alexa's attempt to grab additional information. That's pathetic! I think it's about time to delete the Alexa application. Your intrusive behavior is not welcomed. CORRECTION, this RainPoint unit is a great product. Highly recommend it. Just make sure to delete or at minimum Disable the intrusive Alexa skills that forced it's way into their the RainPoint program.

I really wanted this to work. I love many of the company's other products, but for remote moisture measurements, this and the other variant I bought both just don't work at all. Other products by RainPoint (all remote watering systems) are very good. Sadly, this is just a hard thing to do.