Author Archives: josh

Indexing Valves

If you have an Indexing Valve and are wanting to use it with a B-hyve timer or an Orbit Underground Timer, then this article will help with wiring and programming. There are two methods to wire and program an indexing valve – Multiple Start Time Method – Jumper Wires Method * Please note that if…Read More »

How To Check Your Delivery Status

If you have boughten something from www.orbitonline.com and want an update on the shipping status for your order, then this article will help with that. Click here and we’ll take you to our Shipping page, where you can check out our shipping and ordering policies as well as some additional information. You can also head to support.orbitonline.com and tap…Read More »

What Does Watering Budget do?

The watering budget is used to increase or decrease the amount of time the program selected will water.  Example: If you have a program set to run a zone for 10 minutes, then at 100% watering budget, the program will do just that. If you were to change the percentage to 50% then the program…Read More »

Can you use B-hyve timers with Bluetooth instead of WiFi?

If you are using a B-hyve timer and do not have access to WiFi or choose to not use it, you are able to control your timer through Bluetooth instead. There are some limitations while using a B-hyve device through Bluetooth – You will not have access to smart watering – You will not be…Read More »

Will my B-hyve controller still run its scheduled programs if it loses WiFi connection?

If you have your B-hyve device programmed to run the watering schedule that you set, if the device were to lose connection to WiFi then it would still continue to run these programs as scheduled. You will not be able to control the device or make any schedule adjustments while the controller is offline if…Read More »

How many start times can my B-hyve timer have?

This article will go over the total amount of start times our B-hyve timers will allow based on the device.  If you have the following devices then you will have 16 start times per day, as each of these devices has 4 programs (ABCD), and each program can have 4 individual start times – B-hyve…Read More »

Orbit Sprinkler System Designer – unexpected error

If you are using the Orbit Sprinkler System Designer and are running into an unexpected error, then this article should be able to help with that. Normally when this happens, it is because there is an error with the design. The most common reasons are: – Not having a lot placed (in order for any…Read More »

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