WaterGuru Sense S2 Smart Pool Monitor - Wi-Fi Digital Water Tester

For the money this is a very good water testing system. I use it to monitor a remote pool and it works well for that purpose. It sits in the skimmer & tests the water daily. You can set the time of day, but no option to skip test days. I think I used two cartridges a season in NorthEast. It tests free chlorine, pH, water temperature & water flow at the skimmer. It has helped immensely, but disappointed it stopped responding after two seasons. Worth the money & relatively inexpensive compared to the few competitors. Cartridge 5-pack is $50. It is accurate & does require wifi to work. They provide water testing for detailed analysis, but my two tests did not get uploaded this season. You can manually upload detailed pool test data if you have a local tester. This house is remote so testing water locally is challenging. The app interface is easy to use & they calculate estimates for what product to add based on pool size. You can have multiple units & share the access to family members. Worth the money, no green pool for two years. Buy long lasting Lithium C batteries, the extended use is well worth the extra cost.

Might be a great idea, but terrible customer service and warranty. Bought this unit less than 2 years ago. Worked fine for a few months, then required a week of back and forth emails with customer service to trouble shoot the problem. Finally sent me a new unit, which again worked fine and then again stopped working. Only this time customer service tells me warranty had expired and now offer 20% discount on a new unit. What a joke! Needless to say I know have 4 months of cartridges I can't use. Not worth the hassle or money for something that barely works one year and needs to be replaced. Be curious if another company has a better product as its a great concept, but this company has not figured out the hardward (nor customer service). Too bad. Would never buy a Waterguru

I purchased and installed the WaterGuru Sense Series 2 a few days ago. The installation was very straightforward. Install the batteries, plug the cartridge into the sensor, then drop the sensor into the skimmer and you're done. And don't forget to install the app on your phone and connect to the sensor via Bluetooth and WiFi. After a short period of time, I got feedback on my phone about the current conditions of the pool: pH level, free chlorine (FC), total alkalinity (TA), cyanuric acid (CYA) level, and calcium hardness (CH). If you use salt to soften the pool (or I suppose if you have a saltwater pool) there's data for that as well. My pool had been serviced the day before so I expected the readings to be high. No surprise that the pH level was high, the TA was high, and the CH level was high. Over the next couple of days, I watched the levels drop closer to the normal range--and I intend to share the results with my pool maintenance company so they can manage my pool more effectively. My 'pool guy' is already excited to see the results to help him save time, money, and chemicals during his regular maintenance schedule. If I want to do it myself, I now have enough detailed information about what chemicals (acid, chlorine, etc.) need to be added and in what quantities to make it a manageable task. The Water Guru Sense S2 is a game-changer for pool maintenance. It eliminates the guesswork, can save you money, and at the very least, provides actionable insight into the state of your pool. If you're using the pool on a regular basis, or have kids, family members, and guests enjoying the pool (after all, summer is pool party season), this is a must-have to ensure that everyone can enjoy the water safely and without risk. Highly recommended.

Pros: Testing seems to be pretty accurate. App is free and makes it convenient to monitor the pool conditions. The app gives suggestions and tips on improving various levels. Cons: Testing is done through cartridges. If you only test the water once per day, each cartridge will last about a month. A 5-pack of cartridges is $150... which is a little spendy. My biggest complaint is the battery life. The unit takes 4 C-cell batteries that only last about 2 weeks (based on Arizona heat in July-Aug). I would think a solar powered unit would be a better eco-friendly option.

I had been one of the earliest pHin users, until Hayward acquired it and then eventually shut it down. I can understand why, since I had received in total 5 warranty replacement units. Then, I decided to go without a monitoring device for one season, which worked fine, until it didn't this year, when I went on a two week international trip and then I returned to a full algae bloom. My gamble that I would be back in time did not pay off, so I got the WaterGuru2 to stop flying blind and Wow! it's so great to have this level of fine grained data. I had been toying with Pentair pH & CL test kits and then the Taylor test kit too, but now I always exactly where my measurements are at. Now I've got a much better handle on all the major variables in my pool, which actually took a while to fully understand since I didn't know any of this before. As you can see from my screen shots, my pH is currently a bit low, but I'm told that's reasonable since I use the Tri-Chlor slow dissolving tablets, but my CYA (CYanuric Acid) is through the roof too high. We figured out today that this is because I had been using 99% DiChlor to shock my pool, which spas like to use, but it's not appropriate for my pool, so I need to switch to 68% Calcium Hypo. I'm also going to see if a new CYA remover does what it says it can do, to get my CYA down to normal levels. I'm also going to add in Green to Clean since my high CYA is preventing the full killing of some nagging algae that still remains and likes to come back. The WaterGuru support team, both Tier 1 and Tier 2 have been a true pleasure to work with. With your purchase of the WaterGuru2, you get two types of Sense2 cartridges, 1 C5, which monitors pH, FC plus CYA, Hardness and total Alkalinity and lasts 30 days, and 2 C2's, which measures just pH and FC daily and these each last for 60 days. Once you get into a steady state C2's are enough. By the way, if you're recovering from something as bad as an algae bloom, please refrain from excessively invoking "Measure" on the WaterGuru2 app, since this will shorten the life of the cassette dramatically, since the measuring film scrolls through the cartridge and it will run out faster. By default the WaterGuru2 measures the water once a day and that's actually good enough for residential owners. Anyone who loves data and is tired of "winging it", or "excessively shocking your pool", or "just paying too much monthly to your pool person" should get a WaterGuru 2.

This product has bad connectivity to the local WiFi. They have made No attempt to correct this issue. The cassette needed to use the product are of very poor quality. Even so much so the company gave me a refund with me asking for it. So it’s a known defect. The subsequent cassettes that were delivered after the return have not been reliable and give very different readings every day. The information can’t be trusted.

Easy setup, use it for hot tub water quality monitoring. It is simply awesome, and very accurate as compared to traditional methods of water analysis (i got a classic Taylor kit as well, measurements are essentially identical, made me use the Taylor much less often, about once a month). Setup instructions were clear and once you have the app everything is super simple. Connectivity (mentioned by many) is not an issue at all, it’s just slow to connect that’s all, but this is not a medical emergency :) and does end uo always connecting either through bluetooth if you are close by or WiFi if you are not home. I was a bit skeptical reading some of the reviews, but really glad i gave it a go. 5 stars easily and thumbs up.

I absolutely love the water guru. It saves trips to the pool store to get the water tested. First month it worked awesome, no issues. Second month, I can’t get it to connect to my WiFi or stay connected even though the signal is strong. It’s a very expensive frustration to have it not work.