RAINPOINT WiFi Water Timer

I wanted to like the RAINPOINT WiFi Watering System. Unfortunately, I am left wanting. The setup was simple: Insert the batteries after starting the app's setup wizard. They connected to my Ubiquity Unifi IOT 2.4GHZ WiFi channel without issue. Of note, these items use the “Homgar” app, NOT the “Rainpoint” app. For whatever reason, “Rainpoint” branded products are incompatible with the “RAINPOINT Homgar Series” product line. The included “WiFi Water Timer” works as designed. The “Wireless Outdoor Sensor” works but is bizarrely not waterproof(!) and must be deployed away from rain and direct sun. I previously owned the HCS021FEF Water Sensor, which was successfully paired with the WiFi Water Timer for up-to-date moisture-based irrigation plan control. As to the “WiFi Weather Station Hub,” it leaves much to be desired. The “WiFi Weather Station Hub” can ONLY display the weather and humidity inside and outside your home. This “Hub” CANNOT display ANY of the RAINPOINT innovative watering timer system functions. One can’t control a timer, see if it is on or off, see if its battery is full or empty, or calculate the amount of water a timer has used. It pairs ONLY with the “Wireless Indoor/Outdoor Sensors and the soil and moisture sensor.”  RAINPOINT could have given the user a simple status page on the "Hub." “The Water Timer is On” or “The Water Timer will run tomorrow at 8:00 AM.” Using the buttons on the back of the “Hub,” we could have been allowed to turn on a “WiFi Water Timer” if we selected it on the screen. I know what you are thinking; an app already exists for that. To that, I say EXACTLY. There is an app that exists on state-of-the-art touchscreen displays where one can see the weather in beautiful hi-definition and control the RAINPOINT watering system down to the minute. I own a few other RAINPOINT products. Overall, I have been happy with their performance. Once set up, one can go about their day and only occasionally look at the app to check the battery strength of the timers. I honestly don’t see the use case for the “WiFi Weather Station Hub.” It should be the Hub for a wonderful gardening experience where one can control every aspect of the RAINPOINT ecosystem. There are many other ways to get the weather in the twenty-first century. I cannot recommend it.