LinkTap G2S Wireless Water Timer & Gateway & Flow Meter
LinkTap G2S Wireless Water Timer & Gateway & Flow Meter – Smart Hose Timer for Garden, Cloud Controlled Watering, Wider Range than WiFi, Real-Time Fault Detection & Notification, 2 Year Battery Life
DO YOU EVER WISH WATERING YOUR PLANTS WASN’T SO MUCH WORK?
Properly watering your lawn or garden can be an exercise in frustration. Use too much or too little water, and you’ll end up with wilted plants and flooded soil. But even outside of those little accidents, having to time and then manually activate your watering system is a hassle, especially if you’re not always around the property. Fortunately for homeowners and gardening enthusiasts everywhere, there’s an easier way.
Simplify your watering with the LinkTap G2S Wireless Water Timer!
Designed in Australia, the LinkTap G2S is the enhanced version of our highly successful G2 water timer, and it uses the same gateway as the previous model. If you already own a LinkTap system and are thinking to expand it, you can just get the add-on G2S water timer. Save your investment!
For first time buyers, a LinkTap Gateway is required. One LinkTap Gateway can control up to 15 LinkTap Water Timers simultaneously.
Manage Your Water Consumption
Aside from Rain Skip, LinkTap G2S offers several other water-saving features. All work modes have an ECO setting, which repeatedly opens and closes the valve during the watering cycle to minimise run-off. The G2S even lets you monitor flow rate, water usage, and cost in real-time through the app from anywhere.
High Flow Rate
The LinkTap G2S water timer has a typical flow rate of over 32 L/min (8.5 gal/min), making it a perfect candidate for an in-ground sprinkler system. Since no wiring is needed, you could easily save thousands of dollars by avoiding the labour cost of a complicated installation.
Rugged and Weatherproof
The solenoid valve can withstand high-pressure and ensure your water timer remains operational for years. Plus, the UV-safe exterior and IP66 waterproof design protects it from harsh weather conditions. Designed for every type of climate, the LinkTap G2S is robust, sturdy, and reliable.
Use LinkTap in Your Smart Home
Have your hands full? LinkTap timers can be set or controlled remotely throughout your smart home by speaking with Alexa or Google Assistant. Just give the command, and LinkTap will take care of the rest.
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| Weather awareness | ✓ | ✓ |
| 2 times the range of Wi-Fi | ✓ | ✓ |
| 2 year battery life | ✓ | ✓ |
| 6 watering modes + ECO + batch watering | ✓ | ✓ |
| Up to 100 watering cycles per day from 3 seconds to 24 hours per cycle duration | ✓ | ✓ |
| IP66 waterproof | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manual on/off with digital lockout | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real-time watering status & Rain Skip notifications | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real-time fault detection & notifications | ✓ | N/A |
| Real-time water flow rate & usage notifications | ✓ | N/A |
| Weight: | 450 g |
| Dimensions: | 10.2 x 7.3 x 16.3 cm; 450 Grams |
| Brand: | LinkTap |
| Model: | TP-2BS, GW-02 |
| Colour: | Grey |
| Dimensions: | 10.2 x 7.3 x 16.3 cm; 450 Grams |
I bought a pair giving 4 independently controlled circuits. Versatile programmes. Rain control linked to weather app and mm of prior and predicted rainfall without the need for sensors. Clever soak away delivery pattern option. Multiple programmes. Measurement of flow rate and volumes with history and costing. All controlled from a clear app from anywhere in the world together with problem notifications. Brilliant solid kit.
Expensive, but worth it.
Many programming options. Clear instructions (just follow them carefully). Gateway is around 10m through a double brick wall from tap: perfect connection first time.
Takes a little while to get used to the app, but worth taking the time to explore, along with the online manual.
I rarely write reviews, but even at this price it exceeded my expectations. First rate.
Build quality seems excellent. App seems to be user friendly and the overall impression is of an item designed very much with the customer in mind. If the device has long term reliability, there is very little that could be improved upon.
I should really write more reviews, but when I do its because a product is amazing. This was so easy to setup. Plug the gateway into a power supply and connect to your router. Then attach the other unit to the garden tap, add 4 x AA batteries, download app on your phone, add the gateway to the app and it connects automatically to the garden tap device. Wifi connection is great. Schedule works great and can start and stop 2 different zones with ease.
I’ve bought a cheaper version which used Bluetooth via a mains powered hub sited nearby. I was never happy with the programming options and the Bluetooth was ropey at best! I used it for 2 seasons before it died!
This unit is however like a breath of fresh air, being a doddle to set up and install. The operating/using/WiFi/Cloud experience is quite simply SUPERB. Moreover the flow rate is not restricted at all when operating. Ask me again in a couple of years and I truly have confidence that I’ll be saying the same again.
Simple product but it works well very well. Great app to use the product as well.
A very well built product with great supporting documents if you want to integrate with Home Assistant via MQTT. Very helpful support staff. Product performs very well.
Purchased summer 2022 , worked fine, turned back on for the summer, batteries totally flat and the system constantly clicks and will not connect to the gateway, just contacted support, Jack very helpful , after a couple of emails put a replacement in the post, excellent service and thank you
Once you buy plants you must look after them, one of the key thing is to water the plants regularly and on time.
I bought Link G2S gateway and watering dive over a year ago and I must say this is one of the device which I would highly recommend, an excellent product and robust design, so simple to assemble and start using it.
Product – There is nothing out there in the market that matches the quality, reliability and durability of this product, I have had few in the past and this one is above the class.
The batteries last forever, well I haven’t yet changed mine and I can see on the app over one year if use it’s still 60%. There are so many features that comes with the device that you would be blown away, weather forecast, don’t worry about turning your timer off, the devices skips watering plan if the forecast is to be rainy,
Customer service- one of the best customer service team I had to deal with, Jack is an amazing person works for the company based in Australia, I had few queries and Jack sorted them out promptly.
This would be a game changer for you, the best product out there in the market, absolutely no match to its quality and performance.
Easy to install and setup. Running well after some fine tuning. Saves water with adjustments for rain.
I need information about the service. My flow meter stopped working, and can no longer be recognised by the system. Who is servicing these devices?
This product works well however , one unit was faulty and used batteries at an alarming rate . We are still waiting on a replacement from the manufacturer. Another unit restricted water flow when the battery level dropped below 50% . The gateways struggle with walls and considerably reduce the range .
Tad but it’s good , is it worth it is my question , honestly I think it is
Highly recommended.
Brilliant for both topping up our pond and watering our plants while away. Easy to check on our cctv to see if extra watering required and use linktap to do as required. Good link to weather so watering skipped if any rain.
Having the dual control was spot on for us and a purchase we’ve both said is worth it.
Easy to set up, find the app interface a little over complicated and don’t really like the design of the layout. Have had a few smart tap devices over the last couple of years, usually cheap Chinese crap, that as soon as the weather turns cold give up and die. I’m hoping that at this price point this device can cope and continues working for many many years.
A very well thought out design – caters for different size taps. Simple interface on unit, but the best part is the app which is very detailed and a breeze to learn.
This is an excellent device to control the garden tap remotely. Among many other features, you can set off instant watering or create scheduled programmes on your phone from anywhere with an internet connection. It was very handy when we were away for a longer period of time, but we rely on it for regular watering even when we are at home.
We needed to use a second washer (included in the pack) to make sure that the device attached to the garden tap properly, with that installation was straightforward.
The gateway and a single tap are about 10 meters away with several walls between them but the connection was never an issue.
The app is well designed, intuitive and easy to use despite the many control options.
I’m glad we went for the LinkTap version with the flow meter: I find it useful to monitor changes in the pressure and generally to be more aware of our water usage.
Overall, we are very happy with this purchase.
The Zigbee connection has been flawless – head and shoulders above previous blue tooth devices that gave me endless connectivity issues. This is a super reliable product with the ability to control remotely from anywhere. I love it and so does my law
This is an excellent product. Using it for a few weeks now and can’t fault it. It’s easy to setup and install. Comes with a base unit that wires into your network and it pairs with one or more battery powered water timer control devices that attaches to your tap. It uses a private Zigbee network instead of wifi (like Philips Hue lights) so is very efficient on battery on the tap unit. It has a very flexible app that once you get used to it can be configured with whatever schedule want including links to the weather forecast to avoid watering on rainy days.
Best feature for me is that it links with Home Assistant which allows you to control and monitor water usage along with all your other smart devices.
The smart control of the tap is flawless with no leaks. It’s not the cheapest device but it is quality and better to pay a little more for quality than less for sub standard devices that only partially work.
I use to supply water to my irrigation system for my new flower beds and plan to get second tap put in and will be getting a second unit.
Highly recommend
Use the product to be able to fully control my garden watering needs via an app anywhere in the world. Excellent product does what it says on the tin/I would fully recommend this product!. Also had Wi-Fi connection issues and their customer service (Jack) was amazing and sorted my issue out in no time. .
Jack..thank you so muchso glad I bought it!
Super easy to install and setup. I had problems finding a timer which holds the wifi connection, and sent another brand back for this reason. This one is stable, reliable (so far), and a joy to use. Just ordered an extra, for the front of the house.
Really good product and light years ahead of the others we considered. We purchased 2 units and one gateway to set up a watering schedule for a new lawn while we were away on holiday and it worked faultlessly. Very easy to set up and use, interface is a little busy but that’s because of the amount of available features but once you learn what you need and how to set up it’s a breeze to use. Would be a nice feature if it integrated natively with Google / Apple Home or Alexa. A+++
So far so good, one week in. It does exactly what it says on the tin, I’m hoping it proves itself reliable
Used for irrigation of plants. Link tap failed to pair with link gateway. No response from manufacturer. I have changed my review for this product after a quick replacement of the faulty unit. The replacement unit has been working perfectly for several months. I particularly like the app which gives plenty of control and feed back of water usage
Very easy to install and get up and running. Loads of flexibility in terms of watering times and durations and notifications work well.
I think I wanted to buy this initially, but as it was during covid, there didn’t seem to be any stock, so I ended up with another brand.
I know rechargeable batteries are not recommended, but it pains me to use disposable ones. The other brand’s controller was fine initially, but recently really started eating them up, hence the change.
This controller is brilliant, uses rechargeable batteries without issue and doesn’t drain them – I can easily believe the 2-year claim on regular batteries.
Initial connection and strength of connection is way better. Set-up of schedules is a bit more of a faff compared to my old controller, there is currently no sunrise/sunset option, but apparently this is coming.
The thing I like best though is the “skip watering” feature, works very well. The monitoring of flow is useful too, especially when you input your water rates giving you a rough cost of how much your spending. Very pleased so far.
I was devising lots of alternatives, but I couldn’t come up with anything that is as feature-rich as this unit. So far it’s been a pleasure to use, reliable and my plants have got watered! The app could do with a bit of work as it’s not as intuitive as it could be, but overall I’m happy.
I’ve had a few issues. The device signals were weak so I purchases a new air mesh to add to my router. The signals now are for the most part stable.
The only other issue I have is that one of my Link Tap devices is connected to a irrigation system which runs on 4mm pipe. So the reduced flow alert comes up when watering, so I suppose all said and done it’s doing it’s job.
Apart from that no other issues so far.
Very happy with the product.
Possibly over-tech-enabled just to water the tomatoes but gives real control and data over internet and helps to reduce unnecessary watering
Easy to setup but User Interface on the app is terrible. Unless you use it everyday you’ll have no idea what the many icons mean. As others suggested needs a re-design. Product is great though.
Professional product relatively easy to configure. Fitted it in conjunction with a hozelock irrigation system and it works a treat. Been using it for a couple of weeks and so far would highly recommend
Really pleased with this wireless water timer. It works seamlessly and does exactly what says it will. Very pleased.
Sturdy product and well designed. The app is easy to use and sophisticated enough for complex watering schedules. Setup was quick and painless!
Very easy to use. Love the weather forecast checking and skipping watering depending on the forecast. One feature that I would suggest to improve is WiFi connectivity. The signal of the device doesn’t travel very far and you need LAN connection, so unless you have a LAN connection close to your garden it may not work.
Easy to install and the App which accompanies the LinkTap is outstanding. Its reliable, versatile and built to last. I highly recommend this product.
Excellent product so far, used it for 2 months. Easy to install and great app . Very flexible watering options and “skip if rain” has proved to be spot on so far.
Purchased for my parents as they are keen gardeners but are often away at weekends during the summer and need to water the garden. This seemed to be a better solution than a simply timer, which does not take account of recent rainfall.
Easy to set up, the gateway is near to the router in the front lounge and the tap controller is in the rear garden.
Unable to comment on battery life ye
The product is well built and easy to set up. I have left it on test before using next spring because I require the remote function reliability. All was well for over a month ,until last week and the unit failed to communicate. A warning was provided via an automated e-mail. As a result I went to the site and found the Gateway was showing it had not connected and 3 red LED’s were lit up instead of the 3 green LED’s. I tried various combinations of turning on router, disconnecting cables etc. No Joy. I contacted their help service on a Saturday night and to my surprise received a reply from Jack. Jack offered to send a new Gateway however eventually we found the fault to be the plug in charger.
Once replaced it works very well.
This is the reason for the 5 star review. There was an issue and it was resolved by great customer service.
I fully recommend this product and as is unusual for internet sales a fantastic service.
You can buy with confidence, thoroughly recommended.
I am confident Jack will replace the faulty item because I am using an alternative charger from an Andriod phone.
Wow. Impressed. Well designed, technical, innovative… and does the trick. I will be buying more of these. Push notification selection is diverse, but good. Choices are good. Flow rate calc – wow. You clever bunch of techy guys. The app – awesome. I’m a big fan of garden irrigation and this BLOWS hozelock old fangled water timers away… by 100 light years. N.B. No. I’m not being paid or sponsored by LinkTap (wish I was). P.s. pls can I be your ambassador!
The unit is great, the app is great. Its better than I expected it to be.
I have only recently installed this item. It was very straightforward to install and I had no problems using the IOS app to register the item and supplied hub. Everything worked first time and it was up and running in 10 minutes. The app has extensive functionality and it was easy to programme an initial irrigation schedule and to to run initial tests through the app. I am really pleased I bought the linktap.
This water timer is easy to set up and use. The wireless capability is fantastic. No need to leave the comfort of the sofa to water the grass. My timer has been added to a Claber irrigation system and it works perfectly. There are some neat warnings in case it stops working ie. loss of signal. Overall I’m really happy with this purchase and looking forward to setting the auto function up soon.
Easy to set up and use. Perfect for watering greenhouse plants whilst on holiday and being able to set/edit schedules and have full control whilst away.
I tested it out for a week before going on holiday and it worked a treat.
Flow rate monitor is great – you know exactly how much water you are using and can adjust duration accordingly.
Great product.
Easy to install, much cheaper that the Gardena one we use and a better app to support. Well made as well
I have three of these running to control different parts of the garden and they are all working well, and the flexibiltiy of the watering modes combined with the skip-when-raining is great. Setup was easy and signal strength doesn’t appear to be a problem despite a couple of walls in the way. One thing that hopefully improves is the mobile app, as while it is functional it can be confusing to navigate and does look a little dated.
Battery is still showing as 100% in the app after a month of use.
Very well made
East set up
I bought this a few weeks ago and so far it’s been great. Maybe early days of course but so far all good in every aspec
I brought this to run 2 timers for plants and a pond. The timers work as needed a few times a day. I can turn on as needed remotely and it’s weather aware.
Quality and build of the product backed up with a very capable phone app makes this a no brainer not to mention the efficient use of water. The alerting is also top notch.
Yes I am very happy with the quality and performance of my LinkTap.
Background to purchase:
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I have a problem with cats/foxes soiling our back yard and wanted a humane way of discouraging them.
Hence we purchased an Orbit Yard Enforcer – a sprinkler watering system that is triggered by movement. This blasts water and frightens the critters away very successfully.
However, this device started leaking water which made it not viable for use due to water wastage!
So I shopped around and found your amazing LinkTap which I was able to use with the Orbit Yard Enforcer to reduce water wastage!
As far as feature improvements go, I would like your support team to put an option in the LinkTap app to start watering immediately as there is currently a 15 second delay in triggering LinkTap.
This would help me enormously as the you can appreciate the animals could do their damage in that time.
I am very happy with my purchase of this quality product and know my usage of the LinkTap may be unconventional but it is working for me and hope you can take my suggestion on board.
Response from Jack in LinkTap Customer Support:
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Hi Victor,
Thank you so much for explaining the use scenario and your kind support!
“currently a 15 second delay in triggering LinkTap”: The default TapLinker sleep mode is “Power Save mode” in which the 15 seconds is applied. The other option is called “Performance mode” in which the sleep duraion is 5 seconds. If you log into the app, go to “Gateway Details” page, scroll down, you will see the “TapLinker Sleep Mode” section where you can choose the “Performance mode”.
Best Regards,
Jack
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I had an immediate resolution for speeding up LinkTap’s reaction once triggered via Amazon Alexa Routine. This has saved me buckets of water and given me peace of mind.
Fantastic bit of kit, setup was very easy, and the device itself is robust and looks smart in grey.
I have 2 link taps connected to the gateway and have been running for 3 weeks without any issue.
I was worried about it falling off the tap or the hose connector coming off and water flooding an area but the app has alarms built in for different potential scenarios which is great. I tested them all and they work perfectly.
For example I water the front garden and it shows me in real time how many litres per minute is flowing (this was cool!), say 1.8 lpm for some drip feeders but you can set an alarm so if it say went to 15 lpm (you set this value) because the hose had come off then you would be alerted. As I said I tested this and it worked well.
The unit takes AA batteries and after 3 weeks is still showing 99% battery remaining so no issues with battery life.
Have this product to look after our bonsai trees that we’ve grown from a nut, the walnut is 45 years old.
Tap Link is just the job for us as were away a lot.
It was easy to set up and on the whole it works well with the weather forecasts although the weather forecasts can’t always be trusted.
The hardest thing to set up was getting more than one watering event on the same day it’s a bit confusing as you can have multiple day settings.
Customer support were very good sent me the manual which gives more detail and I have set up my three events.
I found setting up the costs and knowing how much water is being delivered very helpful.
I recommend this product as at the moment working very well.
I dropped a star on Easy to Use because setting up the multiple events is a bit confusing.
My daughter on seeing mine has now got one and is watering her whole garden and his over the moon with hers and i was able to guide her through the set up.
LIKE the idea of batteries as would have been difficult putting in a mains supply to the unit.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Having invested in a micro-irrigation system for our garden this was the final missing piece we were looking for.
I’ve now installed two timers against the one gateway and have a fully automated watering system in place. Activating the timers and setting up the gateway was easy and the app works well too. I like the eco mode and the rain skip feature has come in handy several times over the past month. Really impressed with the variety of safety features to detect and alert on a malfunctioning setup.
We’ve also got it integrated with our Google Home Assistant which is useful for when you want a manual top watering top-up. A note on that: if you have more than one timer this didn’t seem to work until we had a schedule created and as I find it quite clunky to use the overly verbose activation phrases I’d recommend creating a much shorter and more convenient custom Google Home routine.
Bottom line: it’s a great piece of kit that works well.
Really happy with this purchase. It works well and is much more responsive than the pervious wireless timer I had. It was pretty easy to set up as well. I have noticed it reduces the water pressure slightly but that’s the only negative thing I can say about i
It was easy to install. The app may seem a bit dated but seemed effective. I like the way it works out whether it has rained or about to and saves water by skipping that cycle.
This is a great product. The WiFi range is excellent. Our tap is on the other side of the house to the gateway, via solid granite walls and it work faultlessly.
The support via the app/email is also excellent. They answered my questions within 30 minutes and their answers were very helpful.
Installation was easy and worked first time.
Functionality of the app is good, with settings to stop watering if it has/will rain and problem notifications such as high flow/low flow or tap fallen off.
The gateway power lead is a bit short but they are readily available on Amazon.
Overall a very good product.
Found the initial set up of the watering program a bit confusing but now it’s going fine. Rain skip is a nice feature that works well. Have now bought a second time to control greenhouse.
The product is really good. The app is simple to use, and the “skip watering” if there is rain is really useful (especially with the weather we are having at the moment)
Bought the “LinkTap” very recently so this is an early review, consequently have no idea how long the batteries last. It was extremely easy to setup and I needn’t have worried that my WiFi router was too far away (after all the tap is in the garden!). The Gateway as supplied takes care of that. The link to the rain forecast, missing out a day if raining, is brilliant. It even tells you how much water you have used and you can still be in control whilst away from home.
I have 3 of these now and I find them excellent.
This was a replacement for a zGardena one, which let us down owing to bad battery life, so I am hoping that this one will live up to expectations!
It was easy to install, very easy to use, gave info when watering started and stopped, even let us know it didn’t need to water as it had rained! Very good, as we’re using it thousands of miles away!
Good range – better than its Orbit competitor. Set up best I’ve seen but still needs work on interface. Will use more of these rather than others I have.
I have had this for two years, in winter I take it off as makes no sense, I would buy this again and highly recommend it, the only thing I had to find out was it needs 2.4ghz WiFi to work. I had one issue and support was excellent, very helpful and replaced my broken receiver quickly. Mine runs multiple schedules and if it is forecast to rain it pauses the schedule. Battery life is excellent too. How would I know! I had another brand previously and they promised yearly changes but three weeks boom! In two years I have changed once. So as I said highly recommended. My garden looks great and I am a lazy gardener.
Been using it for a couple of weeks now and.
Pros
Pretty easy to install
Great features
Cons
The app really needs redesigning. It has all you need but it’s not logically or neatly laid out. It takes a time to work out where the functions you need are (and I am a technical user). Needs an interface redesign and rethink on the user experience.
Very easy to install and the app works a treat. Very versatile and gives me peace of mind when I am away from the house that the plants are being watered at he right times.
I have other water timers before but this beats them all. It’s a quality made product and easy to install. What makes it outstanding is the wifi connection via the app. The best feature is the rain delay feature just brilliant. The app only waters your garden when it’s does not rain as it checks your local weather forecast. I can only recommend this product.
Really. Exactly what smart water timer should be. No fuss and straight forward. Really good Wireless range compare to my previous ones.
I have a splitter tap who’s output uses Hozelock connectors as opposed to a standard tap threaded screw, but this was no problem to install. Link Tap provide all the necessary connectors.
Set up was straight forward and in less than 10 minutes I was up and running. This is a easy to use and very fleible device allowing a number of schedules, calendar based, time based, rain skipping features, leak detection etc..
I would have given Ease of Use 5 stars however :
– The app isn’t as slick as it could be . I use Android and it feels a little ‘frst days of mobile apps’ rather than a truly engaging User Interface
– The Smarthome integration could be better. I use Google Home and I can’t ask it to turn on the Sprinkler. It’s like a 3rd party type of integration when you have to say ‘Hey Google, ask Link Tap to turn on for 5 minutes’. There is a workaround to thie using IFTTT but true native integration could be better.
– I have had the device for 3 weeks but it’s too early for me to review the battery life.
But I’m not complaining. This is easy to use. Easy to install and maintain. Family friendly and you forget it’s there. I just see blooming flowers growing far better than last year. Definetly would recommend this.
Link Tap if you’re listening.. Please consider developing a multi output device – We all have diffferent beds and borders we want to water. You have many competitors out there, but this would be seperating yourself from the competition.