Good thought. I have a dual band router and they are separately named, but I have to imagine I will probably get sucked in by a mesh system with unified naming (looking at you Google Wifi sales) and then it sounds like it might be an issue. That post is from back in 2016. I have to imagine this was resolved though given the prevalence of dual band routers now. You know what happens when you assume though! Might just be worth the extra 50 to just get the most recent generation. I am frugal though. so tough call.
Personally I care most about potential interference with Zigbee. I usually avoid 2.4 GHz devices for that reason
Did I mention the generation 3 also has the option for a wireless flow meter 
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I saw that in my research. I am not sure I am brave enough to install that my self and don’t think I want to pay to have a plumber install.
Sky drop has been an underwhelming and frustrating experience, after having high hopes for this product that had the potential to be very good.
My main issues are numerous but the main one is after making a significant purchase there is no customer support, despite four emails to reset an account and or reset the product for the account that it is set to, I am stuck in limbo land.
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I can’t charge my customer for a product that is not setup or functioning the way it is supposed to.
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The device seems to still water even during a one week rain period, requiring me to manually disable all watering. Although this is not a good option as there are two indoor gardens that require watering even when it is raining outside.
I now need to go in an manually change all 10 other stations that don’t require watering during a down pour and then manually change it back when it stops raining, each time is a significant effort and time consuming cycling through all the setup of each station each time. Then when it rains again I need to do this again, never mind the travel time to and from the clients home. -
I can’t put it onto smart watering, because it wants to water the lawn for 19minutes which I water for 5min every day in hot weather or every third day in cool mild weather. If I watered the lawn for 19mins the lawn would wash away.
I have tried various configurations of all the parameters for soil and type of jets and types of plants to reduce the watering time without success. -
There is no provision for drippers, perhaps America does not use them?
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The setup of the garden parameters is a simplification of a complex system that even a typical garden has more than one soil type over the area and soil type at which depth, sandy loam on a clay base for example, which would I select. Do I have to choose Trees or shrubs, what if it is a garden with both?
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The major issue I have is there is no customer support and I cannot re-set the password to the account linked to the device and I can’t pair my device to a different/new account. The linked account is clearly displayed on the device but when I put this into the login on the website apparently this email does not match their records.
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You should check out this thread. Sounds like it is basically a dead product.
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My suggestion is to pack up from Skydrop and move on. I think they are a ghost ship at this point. I have now been through 2 summers with Rachio (Skydrop went in the trash) and been quite pleased. There are things I would improve, but they are relatively minor and really only things that occurred to me because of the rest of the product was sound and I wasn’t always fighting with the basics like with Skydrop.
Clearly it is still a cloud based product and if the company dried up you’d likely be in a similar boat, but so far so good. They are working on add-ons that cost money because I assume they have realized they need a revenue stream beyond the hardware, but none of it has taken away functionality like the shenanigans Skydrop did.
I would suggest going and poking around the user forum. Between the reviews on the product, the forum, and the support on the forum (both user and company) I was sold.
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In fairness to sky drop, they responded to my user account issue today, a day after my fourth email, not sure if the fact that I said i was going to post my issues on a forum got their attention or its true that “Due to a technical issue on our end we have not been able to answer any support tickets for a little over 10 days.” I have invested in the product so I will preserver a give it a good go before I can properly re-assess.
Ok, now I have used it, some of my complaints are resolved and am very optimistic about using this time clock. The app is the only way to go to program, it is much easier.