ultrasonic Smart Water Meter & Monitor for Live Water Usage Tracking, alerting and Leak Detection. Install in Minutes, no Plumbing Required. iPhone and Android apps

I have two wells on 20 acres and on one well went dry and the other dropped to lest than 0.5 GPM. It will be nearly two months until a well driller can be on site to help me out with a new well. I bought two of the Blue Bots to monitor flow from my well to the holding tanks and one to monitor flow to the two houses we have and19 different zones of landscaping and vegetable garden. We used the Bots to determine GPM for each zone and keep track of the tank farm fill rate. We were able to find a number of excess watering durations that pointed to a few broken drip pipes and a few zones that were being overwatered. After fixing the broken stuff and adjusting the overwatered zones we were able to reduce our overall daily GPM by nearly 37%. Not enough to matchup with our meager well output but it gave us the ability to reduce and schedule water truck deliveries more accurately.I also bought this cloud based tank level sensor from these folks to keep tabs on my water storage without taking a trip to the tank farm. PTLevel - ParemTechThe unit is extremely easy to install and the app does almost everything you want. They are supposed to be developing a web access to the cloud data and release it soon, which will be a blessing because the text in the app is small and difficult to read and I would prefer to use a larger screen.I did send them two support tickets with questions about configuring statistics, but never heard from them... Eventually figured it out myself

The device would connect to my wifi but would not connect to the bluebot servers. (Purple flashing light) They claim there is a firewall issue, but I don't have any fancy firewalls set up. It is just a Eero wifi network connected to Comcast. The device should just use standard ports, http if you have to, and not be attempting wacky stuff likely to be curtailed by a firewall. No other device, and we have dozens, has this problem.As it is this is much too fussy to be reconfiguring my network, adding new networks, engaging with Comcast support (NIGHTMARE!) to figure out why a light is blinking purple. Do I or Comcast have any idea? No. They are just going to blame bluebot, which is in my book not that far off the mark.I also had problems with the password verifier in the app. It claimed every password was too weak, even 50 character long passwords with all sorts of strange symbols. I eventually had to force quit the app before it would accept one. That didn't bode well.This product isn't ready for prime time. Maybe you will get lucky and it will just work. Maybe you'll end up with a unit you can't use and be looking at having to return it like I did. I don't want to maintain a custom network for each of a dozen different devices, with devices fighting over wacky settings and endless configuration with no information ( single idiot light as interface) with engineering details not described in the docs. This unit doesn't meet the grade and there is likely no room for it at my house.====Update 9/25/21:The support department is extremely helpful. They did ship me a new unit and a bug fix for some overly clumsy networking code. The second unit was able to connect to my local internet within 5' of the Eero router, but in the end this didn't save me any trouble. It is when the trouble really started.First of all I took the device out to its install location. There my phone has at least 2 bars of Wifi but the new device couldn't keep a stable connection, and according to support, without that the measurement can't function. Too much UDP and too little packet loss recovery? I couldn't say, but it isn't working. I invested $90 in another Eero node to bring the network within 5' of the install location. This allowed the unit to connect reliably. However, it never achieved anything beyond a poor ultrasound signal on four different sections of pipe involving variously galvanized and PVC pipe, despite vigorous sanding, much cleaning, many weekends spent and quite a bit of ultrasound gel spread liberally around. There are times when the bluebot app will tell me over the week that we've used water for 15 minutes continuously or one time it said we'd used over 250 gallons, but if you look at the user interface it just reads straight zeros.Another problem is that the software incorrectly resolves my Eero mesh wifi system into multiple independent wifi networks all with the same name. I can't tell which is the right node to connect to. The Eero system is supposed to hand off the unit to the closest unit. It seems to reconnect a lot. I wonder if the unit is trying to reconnect the wrong unit again after being handed off. The software is buggy and failure intolerant at least.As to the rest, I am left to conclude that the excellent service and aggressive (and yet strangely inflexible) installation hand holding is just a bandaid for what is poor engineering and/or quality control. You can't hand hold around a defective design. They should invest their money into more determined and deeply suspicious testing, involving unqualified installers, pipes coated in scale and poor wifi situations. This device fails in too many places where all my other wifi devices work just fine. The design may need to change, engineers may need a talking to, but in the end I don't believe this device is fit for consumption. The product should be held back until it is ready. In the end, I have to return both units as either unfit for purpose or defective. I honestly can't tell which.My own takeaway is that I should have a standard inline water meter installed, one that has an option for wifi reporting. I see such a wifi unit for $120 on amazon. I'm sure meters don't cost much, so I guess all this is in theory to avoid hiring a qualified plumber. Maybe the plumber could use a bit of work. I've done too much myself at this point.==== Update 10/5/21 ====Bluebot was very kind to do a house call to debug the machine. They brought out a new bluebot device. They were not able to get it to detect a signal on my pipes either where I had tried it. They moved it to just a few inches past the sediment filter where they thought scale would be least, and it was able to connect and measure correctly. So after a good deal of time it finally works, and I am happy. They said they would update the installation materials to help better deal with scale. (You may have calcium carbonate + other deposits in your pipes if you have hard water.) Scale causes problems for acquiring a clear signal for the device. Perhaps in time they will get more samples of crusty pipe and improve their calibration model.

I had some trouble getting this installed correctly and then there were some software issues in the beginning which the staff resolved very quickly; highly recommend this as a solution to monitoring your water usage realtime and leak detection. Most importantly, the customer support and tech support is extremely responsive which is rare in any industry...the owners/founders obviously understand the importance of customer service from the start; i could recommend product solely on this fact.UPDATE: My Bluebot stopped working after working flawlessly for a year and what did the company do? sent me a replacement while i send the old one back for an autopsy. Amazing support, cannot be any better.UPDATE 2: I received the new unit and install was super easy this time and did it in two minutes… Everything went perfectly and I'm back up and running flawlessly. Thanks blue bot

The app doesn’t work.

I’ve bought three of these units… Two of them work great and bluebot has upgraded their software substantially since launch. The third unit just will not work. I waste months with bluebot. Unfortunately, I contacted bluebot at 12 months past purchase and they aren’t willing to support the unit which simply will not connect with their servers.It’s a good product but seems the company is still in startup mode and their support is subpar.

This works. Install easy.But there is no android client, and the website describes an Android Beta program that seems not to exist.So this is basically useless without an iPhone! I have sent three emails and have no response from them in over a month. :-(——-Update: they did finally respond … offered refund. No mention of Android release pending. So .. I doubt it’s pending.

I never write reviews… but this is an amazing product.Clear install directions. Easy 3 minute installation. Works perfectly.This gives me new insight into my water bill. Now I know where all the water is going. Finding leaks is easy.Good for my pocketbook and helps preserve a scarce resource.Impressive hardware. Excellent user interface.Five stars!

Finalmente hemos podido medir el flujo de agua en una aplicación inteligente que no interfiere con el sistema de agua. Probamos otro producto Más barato que debería ir sobre el medidor y no funcionó. Pero lo barato salió caro. El bluebot en cambio hasta ahora ha sido súper bueno. La única área de mejora sería que en el app pusieran unidades del sistema métrico en vez de galones. No es difícil de convertir pero sería bueno.