93016, 93101, 93281 1, 2 & 4 Zone Bluetooth Water Timers WITH MOISTURE SENSOR An easy and convenient way to manage your lawn and garden watering. This instruction guide is a universal manual for Melnor 1, 2 and 4 Zone Bluetooth Water Timers. User Instructions English 93XXX_INS_ENG_01(WITH MS) Instruction Update We recommend you download the latest version of these instructions at:
www.melnor.com/btupdate This is: Revision 01 1 Battery Installation & Assembly Remove the battery holder from the back of the Timer. Insert 4 AA Alkaline batteries. Replace the battery holder, making sure that it is rmly and securely placed in the Timer. NOTE: Once batteries are in place in the Timer, a green light will ash twice. Attach the Timer to an outside faucet and turn water on slowly. The water must be left on while the Timer is attached to the faucet for your Timer to operate. NOTE: Replace batteries when Timer battery indicator ashes a red light or when the battery icon in the app turns red. Please use only Alkaline batteries. Do not use rechargeable batteries. 2 Download Melnor BT App Compatible with Bluetooth 4.0 devices
(minimum required iOS 9 or Android V7.0). Download and install the Melnor BT app from the Google Play or Apple Store. Visit the Google Play Store or Apple App Store and search for Melnor BT or scan the QR code to download the app. Make sure Bluetooth is activated on your smart phone or tablet. After the app is installed, tap to launch the app. NOTE: Your phone must be within 30 feet of the timer to operate the device. 3 Automatic Watering Open the Melnor BT app. Tap Tap Tap Program On/Off to on. (Green) Tap Watering Mode to set the scheduling By or the Timer photo to go to the Valve screen. or image on the Valve you want to schedule. Frequency or By Week Day. Tap Setting to conrm. NOTE: Scheduling By Frequency waters at regular intervals. i.e., Every 12 Hours, Every Day, Every 2 Days. Scheduling By Week Day allows you to select specic days to water. i.e., MondayWednesdayFriday;
SundayWednesday; Tuesday only. 4 Schedule By Frequency Tap Start Time to adjust the rst watering start time of the day and tap OK. Tap Duration to adjust how long you want to water and tap OK Tap Frequency to adjust how often you want to water and tap OK The Valve is now ready to water. If using a 2 or 4 zone Timer, complete scheduling as needed for each Valve following the same steps. You can return to the home screen by tapping < in the upper left corner. The time until the next watering cycle will display on the Valve setting screen. 5 Schedule By Week Day Tap Watering Day to select which days you want to water. NOTE: The selected days will be highlighted in yellow. All days are selected by default. Ensure Cycle 1 is turned on. (Green) Tap Start Time to adjust watering time for that cycle. Tap OK. Tap Watering Tap OK. retaw ot tnaw uoy gnol woh tsujda ot Watering Cycle 1 is now programmed. To add additional watering cycles, tap Add. You may set up to 12 watering cycles on each Valve. Set "Start Time" and "Watering" as in the previous steps. Tap "OK". If using a 2 or 4 zone Timer complete scheduling as needed for each valve following the same steps. You can return to the home screen by tapping < in the upper left corner. The time until the next watering cycle will display on the Valve setting screen. NOTE: You may deactivate a Cycle temporarily (Gray) and reactivate as needed. Turn on (Green) to resume. You may permanently delete a cycle by tapping the Delete button. Trash icons will appear beside each cycle. Tap the trash can icon to remove. 6 Manual Watering There are two ways to turn on the water manually: Directly from the timer or through the app. Manual watering from the app:
Tap on the Timer you want to control. Tap on the Valve that you want to open manually. Set Manual to turn on (green) the valve. The water will begin to run. Tap the time to adjust how long you want to water. Tap OK to set. This will become your new default manual watering time. The app will show the remaining manual watering duration. You can cancel Manual Watering at any time by setting Manual to off (Gray) Manual watering from the Timer:
Press the yellow button on the Timer above the Valve you want to use. The Valve will open for the last manual watering time set in the app. (Default factory setting is 20 minutes) To stop the water at any time, press the yellow button above the Valve again. NOTE: You can turn the water on using the app and off from the Valve or vice versa. 7 Delay Watering If there is rain in the forecast, you can skip watering for a period of time. From the Valve screen select the valve you want to delay. Activate the delay by tapping the Watering Delay switch on (green) Once the Watering Delay is on (green)you can adjust the duration by tapping the delay period. Select the amount of time you want to pause the watering schedule and tap OK. NOTE: You must set Watering Delay separately for each Valve. 8 Eco Mode Eco Mode is an optional setting that creates a 1 minute pause for every 3 minutes of watering. This allows the water to soak in the soil and reduce water run-off. Open the Melnor BT Timer app. Enter the Valve you want to create Eco Mode on. In the Valve Setting screen turn on Eco Mode by tapping Water Saving Eco. You may choose to alter the Eco Mode values by tapping and changing the preset Watering and Pause times. The Eco mode setting will apply to all cycles on that Valve. 9 Set a password For security you can create a password for your device to protect it from unauthorized users. The password will be required for any user to access the Timer. To create a password Tap the pencil icon, then Change Password and tap OK". Enter a four-character password and tap conrm. You can use numbers, letters, or both. To reset your password, remove the batteries from the Valve Unit. Reinsert the batteries while holding down the button on Valve 1 until the battery indicator turns red, then release. The unit is now reset. NOTE: There is no default password. If you forget your password you will need to reset the device, this will reset all saved setting as well. 10 Customizing Melnor BT App Customizing your Device You can customize the Timers name and image as it appears in your app. Tap pencil icon on the screen. Tap Change Photo to replace the default image with a new one and tap OK. Use an existing photo To use an existing image on your smart device, tap Albums and tap OK. Tap which image you want to use and tap Choose. To revert to the original preset image, tap Pre-Set Photo and tap OK. Take a new photo To take a new photo, tap camera and tap OK". Your device camera will open. Take the photo you want and tap Use Photo". Change the device name Change the name of your Bluetooth Timer to easily identify where you are watering or distinguish between multiple timers. To change the device name, tap Change Name and tap OK. Enter the desired name (max 12 characters) and tap OK. name and image watering. of each Valve in your app to easily existing image on your smart device, tap Albums and tap you want to original preset use, and it will load into image, tap Pre-Set Photo place. and tap OK. Customizing Valves customize the are where you existing photo use an Use Take can You identify an To OK. Tap To a To Your which image revert the to new photo take new a photo, tap will Change the Valve/Valves camera device To change the Enter the desired name device camera open. name name, tap
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moisture sensor is specific designed and programmed to work with the brand Bluetooth Timer only. Other brands moisture sensor will cause the timer/the App work incorrectly. 1 Bluetooth Moisture Sensor Pairing :
You can add Moisture Sensor (not included) to pair with your Bluetooth Timer. The moisture sensor can be used to reduce your water use. Pairing can only be done with one zone at a time. First, obtain 2 fresh AA alkaline batteries and insert them into the battery tray of the sensor. Once they are inserted, press the button on your sensor for about 5 seconds to start the pairing with the timer. Press the co-ordinat-
ing zone button on your timer for 5 seconds. You will notice on your timer that the sensor has been paired. The indicator light will flash blue. Repeat this step for every sensor you want to add for the rest of valves. Then place the sensor into the soil at the location you want to monitor the moisture from. The sensor will show the moisture levels after a few minutes have expired. Additional sensors can be added for multi zoned timers using the same above instructions. 2 Set Moisture Levels:
You can setup the moisture levels according to your soil requirement. 10%
increments are selectable up to 100%. The current status will be shown once a Bluetooth moisture sensor is connected. Please wait three minutes to receive a sensor reading. Noted that more Moisture Sensors are connected to the timer, the more battery use will be used. The center light is a battery indicator. If it is flashing red, change the batteries.