Orbit B-hyve smart home integration, free and open source

Control Orbit B-hyve sprinkler timers: water a zone, set run time and rain delay.

• Published by plsoftware
• Devices
• Version 0.1.1
• Requires Gladys >=4.86.0
• ★ 0

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Controls Orbit B-hyve Wi-Fi sprinkler timers through the B-hyve cloud, using the same API and event stream as the B-hyve app.

Features (per timer)

• <zone> watering — one switch per zone. On waters that zone for the current Run time; off stops watering.
• Run time — minutes a switched-on zone waters (1–120, default 10).
• Rain delay — hours to suspend scheduled programs (0–168; 0 cancels).

Watering started by the timer's own schedule or from the B-hyve app is reflected live over the event stream.

Configuration

Enter your B-hyve account email and password. Then open the Discovery tab and create the device.

Troubleshooting

• Login refused — check the credentials in the B-hyve app.
• States lag — the event stream reconnects automatically; the refresh interval is a safety net.
• Logs: docker logs on the integration container.

Configuration settings

These are the settings Orbit B-hyve asks for in its configuration screen in Gladys.

Setting	Type	Required	Description
B-hyve account	section	No	The same email and password you use in the B-hyve app.
Email	string	Yes
Password	secret	Yes
Refresh interval (s)	number	No	Safety-net poll; live changes arrive instantly over the event stream.

How to install Orbit B-hyve in Gladys

1. In Gladys, open Integrations: Orbit B-hyve appears in the catalog, next to the native integrations, with a community badge.
2. Click Install. Gladys pulls the Docker image (ghcr.io/plsoftware/gladys-bhyve:0.1.1), starts it in a sandbox isolated from the core, and generates the integration's interface (devices, discovery and configuration).
3. Open the Configuration screen of the integration, fill in the settings, and save.
4. You can also install it directly from its repository URL: https://github.com/plsoftware/gladys-bhyve.

Orbit B-hyve requires Gladys >=4.86.0. The catalog inside Gladys refreshes every hour, so a new version becomes available at most one hour after its release.

Not running Gladys yet? It is free and open source: follow the installation guide to get started.

About external integrations

Orbit B-hyve is an external integration: a community integration packaged as a Docker container and published on GitHub, that Gladys installs in one click and runs in a sandbox isolated from its core. It is published and maintained by plsoftware, not by the Gladys core team.

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• Source code on GitHub — source of this documentation

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