Wi-Fi Connected Smart Garden Sensor

Product Description

Keep your lawn looking pristine year round with help from this Wi-Fi connected smart garden sensor. It goes in the soil, tracking and reporting everything from soil nutrition to moisture and humidity so that you can take the guess-work out of maintai

Features

• Continuous monitoring: Edyn tracks light, humidity, temperature, soil nutrition and moisture
• Real-time guidance: Get tailored tips and notifications based on your gardens conditions and the weather forecast
• Garden diagnostic: Edyn analyzes your garden to discover which plants best match its conditions and climate
• Plant database: Discover new plants with Edyn's database of over 5,000 varieties
• Wi-Fi connected: Monitor your garden from anywhere
• Dimensions: (HxWXD) 12.125 x 2.87 x 2.87 inches; Color: Yellow/Gold

Top Reviews

Loved it, but then...
by Scott Kovacik (4 out of 5 stars)
November 12, 2017

I purchased two Edyn Sensors and two Edyn Water Valves back in early May of 2017 and downloaded the Edyn app to run them. Everything worked beautifully for months - very, very pleased with the app and the devices, from initial setup (yes, BlinkUp worked perfectly!) to the information the app gave me, to look-and-feel, ease of use, and build quality. Couldn't have been happier.

I within a few weeks I felt confident enough in the product and app to expand the system to other areas of my property, but the Sensor and Water Valve seemed to have vanished from availability - basically, for the past 6 months, these devices simply haven't been available to buy direct from the Edyn website, with no indication of when (or if) they ever will be again. Very disappointing.
(I understand how odd it may be to indicate they're not available while writing a review of a device that IS available [on Amazon] but I've been told by Edyn that Amazon is not an approved retailer of their products. Only Home Depot, Edyn and Gardener's Supply are approved retailers, *so the warranty may not be covered.)

In addition, the app itself hasn't been updated since I first downloaded it 6 months ago either. Granted, it may not 'need' to be, but it could do with some additional tweaks, such as more plant varieties in the database. Regardless, everything was smooth and reliable until about the first week in November, when the database was telling me that "the next watering is scheduled for"...a date in the past.

For example, on November 7th it told me the next watering was scheduled for November 6th. And it got stuck in that mode with no way around it. Plus, it stated that many waterings prior had either failed, or the devices were disconnected from the network. Frustrated, I deleted the app, downloaded anew, and created a new account from scratch. I then ran into the same issue that a few others wrote about below - the error message of "BlinkUp took too long, please try again." (Oddly enough, at one point I just quit the app and restarted it later, and for some reason my sensor did show up, despite the error message.) But the experience leaves me not trusting it.

Due to this constant error, no update of the app in many months, and the seeming unavailability of the Sensors or Water Valves for purchase [see *caveat above,] I'm moving on to timers for my watering - which is a major disappointment. When the system worked, it worked beautifully.
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Company closed down
by Amazon Customer (1 out of 5 stars)
March 19, 2018

App stoppped connecting to their cloud last year.. no response from support.

They've closed down so all you're buying is a useless brick. I suspect they're staying quiet to sell off remaining stock. This company is a perfect example of the issues with smart devices locked to their servers.
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Had high hopes - good product overall
by CL (1 out of 5 stars)
December 26, 2017

Company is dead, no support at all, product won't connect or pair with their cloud service rendering it useless.

The product itself is probably one of the best all-in-one garden sensors that's been created however so it's very unfortunate that the company died.
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Learn from my mistake, don't waste your time!
by Drew (1 out of 5 stars)
July 8, 2017

Even though the product reviews were hit or miss I was still very hopeful that this product would work. However, either the unit I received was DOA or the Edyn Wi-Fi Garden Sensor is fundamentally flawed. Based on the other amazon reviews and reviews from other sites I would say it's the latter.

I wasted A LOT of time trying to get it to work, and but I simply wouldn't complete the synchronization process. I'm not one to give up easily, so I read through every single one of the posts on their support forums and on other sites, and I actually tried every single work around and troubleshooting step they mentioned.

I finally gave up after hours and hours of frustration and wasted time, contacting their customer support and not hearing back after a week, and trying over 40 times in vain to get the product to work. The complete lack of support for this product speaks volumes about the product and the company. Although their site is still up I have serious doubts if the company is still in business.

Details of my issue: I was able to get the Edyn Wi-Fi Garden Sensor to join the WIFI network and I could even see it in my router's DHCP clients, and see it transmitting date; however, the synchronization errored out every time on the step 3 of the process. Each time it would get to step 3 "Almost done. Preparing your account." and a few seconds later the app would show an error message of "BlinkUp took too long, please try again."
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Great Concept, Unusable Data
by Amazon Customer (2 out of 5 stars)
April 26, 2017

*Full disclosure - I tested on a unit purchased used through Amazon. It looked in perfect condition, but it may have been damaged somehow before I started using it*

This is a great product concept. Collect the vital, fluctuating information necessary to keep plants healthy, then make it available through a network and without the need for batteries. It's easy to set up, easy to see data, and the app helps you interpret the data simply and clearly. Perfect.

If only it were accurate. After two weeks of putting it in different positions in different soils, trying different probe depths, watching it react to different weather, it's clear that the data this thing puts out is garbage. Some examples:
*After 10 minutes of irrigating already-damp, sandy soil, followed immediately by 3 hours of light rain, the probe showed soil moisture at 12% ("a little dry").
*During the rain showers humidity registered at around 70%.
*Putting it into juicy mud for several hours got soil moisture to 16%. ("just right").

Edyn's FAQ tells you how to clean the probe tip and make sure the probe is making good contact with soil. Didn't work for the one unit I tried.

Still, the product concept is so good, if they come out with a version 2 I'll definitely give it a try.
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Looks like they've gone out of business
by Mike (1 out of 5 stars)
March 13, 2018

Looks like they've gone out of business. The App you need to use the product is broken. Support does not respond.
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Edyn - OUT OF BUSINESS
by T. Wilshire (1 out of 5 stars)
July 13, 2018

Edyn company is dead, they went out of business, company website is down, domain is about to expire, APPS are dead, Facebook page is outdated, IFTTT is non functional, I was initially communicating with someone there about jailbreaking the sensor and water valve but got run around and then totally ignored, the person also tried to say that after jailbreaking that when there system came back online, I'd be out of luck, understandable but again the company is done anyway. DO NOT BUY Edyn sensors or water valves as they are currently "bricks" as they won't even allow customers to jailbreak them.
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Issues connecting to WiFi
by Ghassen Kilani (1 out of 5 stars)
December 6, 2017

I m really not able to connect it to my WiFi, once I do the blink up process it always give me an error saying "oops, there might be a problem at our end" when i google it, it informs me that there are server issues. Please somebody HELP!!!
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The worst part of this device is that the company has ...
by Cherith (1 out of 5 stars)
February 23, 2018

The worst part of this device is that the company has gone out of business. The device relies on an app which doesn't work. When trying to connect the server and use the app, response is "a server with the specified host name cannot be found." Nobody answers the phone. I'm so disappointed. The device is beautiful, well-made, but apparently has fatal software problems.
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Edyn product failure
by Paul (1 out of 5 stars)
December 27, 2017

The seller is good but the actual product is not reliable after a short time it failed no help from edyn other than a short email we are checking on it after a few weeks no response at all not even a try at fixing the app or unit. I have no choice but to warn others not to purchase edyn products
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Cool tool, but data not usefully interpreted by app
by Nicole G. (2 out of 5 stars)
March 27, 2017

I've been using this for about a week now in my front garden area. I initially purchased this to monitor light--I have a new home and a lot of roses in pots that I need to find more permanent homes for. I wanted to track which areas of my property would be most suitable. My trees haven't leafed out yet, which means I am getting the feel of the product and how it works.

Some context: we got about 60 inches of snow in my area this winter, which has finally melted. We have had rain on and off for a couple weeks. I have the Edyn placed in a pot with one of my roses, facing east. The light readings initially seemed really accurate--they tracked the level of clouds/sun/rain I observed. The last couple days though, the device is saying my light levels are too high--we've had clouds and rain! I am wondering if any water drops on the top amplified the light measurement?

Also, I am pretty confused about moisture readings. Again, we've had a lot of rain and at no point has even the top of the soil looked remotely dry. The moisture readings hover around 9-12%. In and after rain. Do I need to reset it or something?

Humidity seems consistently accurate. I have nothing to compare for nutrition, but it reads as good (I have not fertilized since last summer).

I think the ability to track these elements is cool and interesting. I am not an experienced gardener, but I am someone who likes research and information to shape my choices--so this seemed like a great tool. I will have to see whether this proves to do that over time.

Update on 5/23: We'll, I have to conclude after more experimentation that this product just won't do what it claims. I moved the unit to the shadiest place in my yard (under a huge maple, next to my shed) and the light meter says the light is "just right." It also tells me the water is at 3%--we've had storms and I also watered around the unit extensively. However this thing interprets the data, it's just not reliable.

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