I agree I wish the plumbing where metal instead of plastic!
The default driver for the Orbit Hose Timer now has a field where you can set the default time to water so you can change it from the default 10 minutes to just over what you want to use in your schedule and there is a very good Simple Irrigation app which has been working great for me this year (a couple of times the app has had to send a command twice to get the unit to start or stop but it tries up to 5 times and I set the default watering time of the device to one minute more than the schedule so if it did fail to turn off by the commands hopefully the device would automatically shutoff one minute late.
I have had this timer for about 3 years (originally on Iris) and each fall I set it to manual, drain it well, take the batteries out and put it in the basement to keep it from freezing in case there is any water left in it.
