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Sonoff Zigbee Smart Garden Watering Timer

by Sonoff

A reliable way to ensure your plants are taken care of automatically!

Take control of your garden’s watering system with the Sonoff Zigbee Smart Garden Watering Timer. Designed for efficiency, precision, and convenience, this smart timer ensures your plants thrive while saving water, money, and time.

To use Zigbee devices, you’ll need a Zigbee-compatible USB dongle connected to an always-on computer (a Raspberry Pi works perfectly!) or a dedicated smart home solution such as the excellent Home Assistant Green (with Zigbee dongle) or the Sonoff iHost.

Why We Love It

Simplify your gardening routine with the Sonoff Zigbee Smart Garden Water Timer. Whether you're nurturing flowers or growing vegetables, this smart device offers unmatched convenience and efficiency with every drop of water.

  • Long Battery Life: Provides up to 20 months of daily watering on a single set of batteries.
  • Peace of Mind: Keep your plants and lawn in perfect condition, even when you're away.
  • Reduce Water Waste: Smart watering ensures you only use water when necessary, lowering your bills and helping the environment.
  • Timed & Quantitative Irrigation: Set precise watering times and amounts to match your garden’s specific needs.

Keep your garden thriving, conserve water, and enjoy hands-free control – smarter gardening starts here! 🌱💧✨

Tech Specs

  • Fixing: British Standard Pipe (nominal size 3/4" - G3/4-14)
  • Waterproof Rating: IP55
  • Working Pressure: 0.06 to 0.8 MPa
  • Connectivity: Zigbee 3.0
  • Power: 4 x 1.5V AA batteries (not included)
  • Environment: 5 to 60°C (5 to 95% relative humidity)
  • Dimensions: 152×100×46 mm

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What Is Zigbee?

Zigbee is a wireless standard enabling low-power, secure connections between smart devices. Widely used in home automation for devices such as thermostats, sensors, and locks, its energy efficiency allows some devices to operate for years on a single coin cell battery.

One of Zigbee’s greatest advantages is its local nature – no need for cloud subscriptions or even an internet connection. Everything can remain within your home, ensuring high security and resilience against internet outages.

Top brands like IKEA, Philips Hue, Tuya, and Sonoff offer Zigbee-supported devices. This allows you to combine products from various manufacturers into one smart home setup, ensuring you’re not locked into a single vendor – brilliant!

With an indoor range of 10–100 metres and extended outdoor coverage, Zigbee’s mesh networking ensures reliable communication, even if some devices go offline. Its robust security features, including encryption and key protection, safeguard your smart home and keep it under your control.

Learn more about Zigbee on the official Zigbee website.

9 customer reviews

2 years ago
A very good screen. I did have to make some tweaks to the Arduino library to make the graphics line up properly, and the colours also require adjustment. However, it was a quick job so I can't complain too much.
by Ben about 0.96" SPI Colour LCD (160x80) Breakout via REVIEWS.io
4 years ago
Great little device - bright display with wide viewing angle. Software setup is reasonably straightforward. I have had a few issues with colours randomly not being the colour specified - there doesn't seem to be any way of fixing this other than turning it off and on a few times until it starts working again......
by Richard about 0.96" SPI Colour LCD (160x80) Breakout via REVIEWS.io
4 years ago
Works nicely, decent viewing angle. Backlight is bright enough for day; a bit too bright for dark viewing but that’s a niche case anyway. With it sat in the mini Breakout Garden on top of the Pi Zero it feels like everything needed to drive it it much bigger than the Pi or screen itself; proportionally the overhead of the breakout connectors and the garden etc are quite big. Once you incorporate it into an actual permanent build that’s much slicker. Too wide to fit the width of a Pi Zero unless you’ve got it raised high enough up that it clears all the GPIO pins, but on something more custom you could fit it quite neatly on there if you weren’t needing standard headers.
by Anonymous about 0.96" SPI Colour LCD (160x80) Breakout via REVIEWS.io
4 years ago
Works nicely, decent viewing angle. Backlight is bright enough for day; a bit too bright for dark viewing but that’s a niche case anyway. With it sat in the mini Breakout Garden on top of the Pi Zero it feels like everything needed to drive it it much bigger than the Pi or screen itself; proportionally the overhead of the breakout connectors and the garden etc are quite big. Once you incorporate it into an actual permanent build that’s much slicker. Too wide to fit the width of a Pi Zero unless you’ve got it raised high enough up that it clears all the GPIO pins, but on something more custom you could fit it quite neatly on there if you weren’t needing standard headers.
by Anonymous about 0.96" SPI Colour LCD (160x80) Breakout via REVIEWS.io
5 years ago
Be aware, this has a very fine ribbon cable on the back that stands proud of the PCB and so care is needed when plugging in or removing from the garden. Driver on the Pi is a long install - support is simpler on the Arduino boards! Quality is good (esp given the size) and it is nice and bright.
by Andrew about 0.96" SPI Colour LCD (160x80) Breakout via REVIEWS.io

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