Every Smart Pool Device Compared: Controllers, Monitors, and Robots (2026)

WaterGuru Sense — the catch, per ecosystem ~$349 $349 is WaterGuru's own store price for this product on 2026-08-10 — listed as 'WaterGuru SENSE S2 Pool Monitor' (SKU WG-SENSE-S2) and shown Sold Out at read time. WaterGuru's homepage now leads with a newer SENSE 3; this record describes the S2 generation. At time of research — never treated as a live price.

• ◐ Amazon Alexa: partial — Ask-only skill — voice readings for temperature and chemistry; no routine triggers or automations (it's a monitor, there's nothing to control)
• ✗ Google Home: doesn't work — Formerly had a Google Assistant integration; retired when Google removed conversational actions (per WaterGuru's FAQ)
• ✗ Apple Home: doesn't work — Siri voice readings on iPhone via the WaterGuru app — not an Apple Home integration
• ✗ SmartThings: doesn't work — No SmartThings integration — WaterGuru's own support hub documents Alexa and Siri voice paths (and a Google Home integration discontinued when Google removed conversational actions) but has no SmartThings article, and WaterGuru appears on no SmartThings partner/supported-device listing.
• ◐ Home Assistant: partial — No official Home Assistant integration — home-assistant.io has no WaterGuru page; the working path is an unofficial community custom integration (HACS) that polls WaterGuru's cloud for read-only readings (temperature, pH, chlorine, cassette status) and can break without notice.

Connection: Wi-Fi · Hub for full use: Not checked — we have not established whether this needs a hub · Works offline: Not checked — we have not established whether this keeps working without the internet

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Aiper Scuba S1 (2026) — the catch, per ecosystem ~$499.99 price at time of research (2026-08-09) on Aiper's own US store — $499.99 against a $699.99 list. Never treated as a live price: this product is discounted more or less permanently, and Aiper stacks further offers (points, trade-in, bundles) on top of the figure shown.

• ✗ Amazon Alexa: doesn't work — App-only ecosystem — no voice or platform integrations anywhere in Aiper's line
• ✗ Google Home: doesn't work — App-only per Aiper's own Scuba S1 product page and support pages (Aiper app control, cleaning modes, OTA updates — no platform integrations listed); Aiper advertises Alexa/Google Assistant voice control only on the newer Scuba V3 Ultra, not the S1.
• ✗ Apple Home: doesn't work — No HomeKit or Siri support anywhere in Aiper's S1 product page, support pages, or app listing — control is via the Aiper app only.
• ✗ SmartThings: doesn't work — SmartThings is not mentioned on any Aiper product or support page, and no Aiper listing appears in SmartThings partner/supported-device results.
• ✗ Home Assistant: doesn't work — No official or community integration of note; cloud app only

Connection: Wi-Fi · Bluetooth · Hub for full use: No — verified that none is needed · Works offline: Not checked — we have not established whether this keeps working without the internet

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Beatbot AquaSense 2 Ultra — the catch, per ecosystem ~$2199 at time of research — never treated as a live price. $2,199.00 read from the product's own standalone SKU (PRCMDS02-NA-A) in Beatbot's storefront structured data, against a standing $3,150.00 strikethrough shown as -$951; the perpetual-sale pattern means ~$2,199 is the real price. ⚠ Two other figures on the same page are NOT this product's price and were deliberately not used: $2,399.00 is the AquaSense 2 Ultra + iSkim bundle (SKU XM_S1PRO_and_F1V1), and Beatbot's own schema.org Product block advertises 2990 USD — a third number matching neither its storefront variant nor the $2,199.00 printed in its own visible page text.

• ✗ Amazon Alexa: doesn't work — Beatbot app is the only control path — no voice or platform integrations of any kind
• ✗ Google Home: doesn't work — Beatbot's own AquaSense X vs AquaSense 2 Ultra comparison marks the 2 Ultra as having no voice/smart-home support — Google Home, Alexa, and Siri integration is introduced only on the newer AquaSense X; the 2 Ultra is Beatbot-app-only (WiFi/Bluetooth).
• ✗ Apple Home: doesn't work — No HomeKit/Siri support on the 2 Ultra by Beatbot's own comparison — Apple Siri voice control exists only on the newer AquaSense X.
• ✗ SmartThings: doesn't work — SmartThings is not offered on the 2 Ultra or any Beatbot model — the vendor's product page and model-comparison guide list no platform integrations for the 2 Ultra, and Beatbot has no SmartThings partner listing.
• ✗ Home Assistant: doesn't work — No official or community integration

Connection: Wi-Fi · Bluetooth · Hub for full use: Not checked — we have not established whether this needs a hub · Works offline: Not checked — we have not established whether this keeps working without the internet

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Dolphin Premier (Maytronics) — the catch, per ecosystem ~$2499 at time of research, Maytronics' own US store page for this product — $2,499.00 against Product No. 99996339-SPL, matching the page's structured offer data. Never treated as a live price. ⚠ CORRECTED from $1,300, and the correction is about sourcing rather than a price move: the old figure was a STREET ESTIMATE that appeared only inside a July provenance source string ("MSRP $2,499 (street ~$1,300)") and was never attributed on the record itself — the price note said only "at time of research". A buyer read $1,300 as this product's price with nothing telling them it was a third-party street guess against a $2,499 manufacturer figure. We now carry the number we can cite. ⚠ Maytronics does not sell this direct: the page's button reads "Buy On Certified Site" and its structured data says OutOfStock, so real dealer pricing may sit below MSRP — that is stated here rather than guessed at.

• ✗ Amazon Alexa: doesn't work — Not a connected product at all — Maytronics' own Dolphin Premier spec sheet lists 'Mobile Application: No', 'Automation Mode: No', 'Remote Control: No'; with no app or WiFi/Bluetooth there is no Alexa path.
• ✗ Google Home: doesn't work — Not a connected product — vendor spec sheet lists no mobile app, no automation mode, and no remote control, so no Google Home path exists.
• ✗ Apple Home: doesn't work — Not a connected product — vendor spec sheet lists no mobile app or remote control; the MyDolphin Plus app's Siri support applies only to app-connected Dolphin models, which the Premier is not.
• ✗ SmartThings: doesn't work — Not a connected product — vendor spec sheet lists no mobile app or connectivity, and Maytronics has no SmartThings listing.
• ✗ Home Assistant: doesn't work — No official Maytronics/Dolphin integration exists in Home Assistant, and the community MyDolphin Plus and Dolphin-BLE custom integrations require app/Bluetooth-connected Dolphin models — the Premier has no connectivity, so no community path applies either.

Connection: — · Hub for full use: No — verified that none is needed · Works offline: Yes — the core function runs on the device or your home network

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Hayward OmniHub — the catch, per ecosystem

• ✓ Amazon Alexa: works — no catch on record
• ? Google Home: inconclusive — Unknown — and the honest answer is that Hayward does not say, for this model. The OmniHub's own product page names exactly one voice assistant: it offers 'integrate with popular voice activated devices including Amazon® Alexa®', and Google is absent from the page entirely. Hayward's OmniLogic and OmniPL pages DO name Google Home alongside Alexa — but those are different controllers, and Hayward demonstrably gates voice support by variant rather than by family, stating on the OmniPL that voice control is 'only available on W models'. Borrowing a sibling product's compatibility onto this one is exactly the mistake that gating warns against. Recorded unknown rather than none, because the OmniHub page's silence about Google is silence, not a denial — Hayward nowhere says the OmniHub cannot do it.
• ✗ Apple Home: doesn't work — Hayward's OmniHub page names one voice platform — 'popular voice activated devices including Amazon® Alexa®' — and mentions no Apple Home, HomeKit or Siri support anywhere, and no Hayward pool controller appears as a HomeKit-certified accessory. The evidence here is the page's silence rather than a Hayward denial, so what would change the answer is Hayward naming Apple for this model specifically.
• ✗ SmartThings: doesn't work — Hayward's OmniHub page names Amazon Alexa and no SmartThings; the only SmartThings path there has ever been was a community Groovy SmartApp for the OmniLogic cloud API, whose thread is now marked OBSOLETE since SmartThings retired Groovy. So one half is a dead integration and the other is Hayward's silence — not a Hayward denial.
• ◐ Home Assistant: partial — Ships in Home Assistant core since 0.116 (no HACS install) but is community-maintained and cloud-polling against Hayward's OmniLogic service — sensors and switches only, no heater or ColorLogic light control. HA's docs name OmniLogic, not OmniHub; the OmniHub connects because it runs on the same OmniLogic app and cloud.

Connection: Wi-Fi · Hub for full use: No — verified that none is needed · Works offline: Not checked — we have not established whether this keeps working without the internet

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Jandy AquaLink RS Pool & Spa Automation System — the catch, per ecosystem

• ◐ Amazon Alexa: partial — Basic voice control of pool features
• ? Google Home: inconclusive — Jandy asserts Google Assistant; only the Alexa skill is documented on a primary source
• ✗ Apple Home: doesn't work — No HomeKit — the pool never appears in the Apple Home app; Fluidra does officially support Siri Shortcuts voice commands through the iAquaLink app (spa on, pool temperature by voice).
• ✗ SmartThings: doesn't work — Fluidra's iAquaLink integrations page lists Amazon Alexa, Siri Shortcuts, and pro systems (AMX, Control4, Crestron, RTI, Savant, URC, Elan) with no SmartThings option; the community AqualinkD daemon that advertises SmartThings talks RS-485 to the AquaLink panel directly and substitutes for the iAquaLink device rather than integrating it.
• ◐ Home Assistant: partial — Official core 'Jandy iAquaLink' integration (cloud polling) covers temps, pumps, aux circuits, lights, and heaters — but its docs list only iAquaLink 2.0 (iQ20) and eXO as supported platforms and state other iAquaLink systems are not supported, so coverage of a given setup isn't guaranteed; only equipment exposed in the iAquaLink cloud appears.

Connection: Wi-Fi · Hub for full use: No — verified that none is needed · Works offline: Not checked — we have not established whether this keeps working without the internet

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Pentair IntelliCenter Pool Control System — the catch, per ecosystem

• ✗ Amazon Alexa: doesn't work — Pentair's own app FAQ states it plainly: 'At this time, Pentair Pool and Pentair Pro are not integrated with other smart home devices, or connected via voice with at home assistants.' The old custom skill ('Alexa, ask Pentair Chat…') rode the LEGACY intellicenter.com portal, which timed out on both HTTP and HTTPS when checked 2026-08-10 — and Pentair has been migrating users off it to the Pentair Pool app, which has no voice path.
• ✗ Google Home: doesn't work — No official Google Home path; Pentair's FAQ states its apps aren't connected to voice assistants
• ✗ Apple Home: doesn't work — No official Apple Home support (Pentair's FAQ: its apps aren't integrated with smart home devices or voice assistants); enthusiasts bridge it into Apple Home with the community homebridge-pentair-intellicenter plugin, which requires running a Homebridge server.
• ✗ SmartThings: doesn't work — Pentair states its apps are not integrated with smart home devices, and the only SmartThings paths for Pentair controllers were community Groovy projects (bsileo SmartThings_Pentair, marked end-of-life with final release April 2018) that died when SmartThings retired the Groovy platform.
• ◐ Home Assistant: partial — Community/HACS integrations only (jlvaillant/intellicenter + forks) — but they use IntelliCenter's LOCAL API (ports 6680/6681), no cloud dependency once installed. HA core's 'screenlogic' integration does NOT cover IntelliCenter (EasyTouch/IntelliTouch only)

Connection: Wi-Fi · Hub for full use: Not checked — we have not established whether this needs a hub · Works offline: Partly — some of it keeps working without the internet and some of it does not

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Pentair IntelliConnect Pool Control & Monitoring — the catch, per ecosystem

• ✗ Amazon Alexa: doesn't work — No skill — Pentair's FAQ: its apps aren't 'connected via voice with at home assistants' (the legacy IntelliCenter skill doesn't cover IntelliConnect)
• ✗ Google Home: doesn't work — Pentair's app FAQ states 'Pentair Pool and Pentair Pro are not integrated with other smart home devices, or connected via voice with at home assistants,' and IntelliConnect is controlled exclusively through those apps, so there is no Google Home/Assistant path.
• ✗ Apple Home: doesn't work — IntelliConnect is app-only per Pentair's FAQ, and no HomeKit certification, Siri Shortcuts support, or community bridge for IntelliConnect was found — even the community pool-controller projects target IntelliCenter/IntelliTouch/EasyTouch, not IntelliConnect.
• ✗ SmartThings: doesn't work — No official or community SmartThings integration for IntelliConnect exists: Pentair's FAQ says its apps have no smart-home integration, and the SmartThings community thread on IntelliConnect is an unanswered user request for support.
• ◐ Home Assistant: partial — Community/HACS integration only (tikotzky/homeassistant-pentair-intelliconnect) and it rides Pentair's CLOUD API — no local path exists, so HA control dies with Pentair's backend or your WiFi

Connection: Wi-Fi · Hub for full use: No — verified that none is needed · Works offline: No — the core function depends on the vendor's servers

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Polaris FREEDOM Plus Cordless Robotic Cleaner — the catch, per ecosystem

• ? Amazon Alexa: inconclusive — Fluidra's iAquaLink Alexa skill covers 'connected Polaris robotic cleaners' generically, but no primary source names the Freedom line and Polaris omits Alexa from its product pages — and WiFi is dockside-only anyway
• ✗ Google Home: doesn't work — iAquaLink's own integrations page lists Amazon Alexa and Siri Shortcuts as shipping voice integrations and shows The Google Assistant under a "Coming Soon!" heading — an announced intent, not an available path, so the level stays none. Re-checked 2026-08-11: the Coming-Soon framing is unchanged. Nothing on that page is FREEDOM-specific in any case; it describes iAquaLink pool automation. The cleaner's own product page was read on 2026-08-11 and lists no voice assistant or smart-home platform of any kind, which is consistent with none.
• ✗ Apple Home: doesn't work — No HomeKit and no Siri path for the FREEDOM Plus — iAquaLink's own Siri Shortcuts page lists compatibility only with AquaLink RS, AquaLink PDA, and AquaLink Z4 automation systems, not with robotic cleaners. Re-checked 2026-08-11: iAquaLink's integrations page still lists Siri Shortcuts as a pool-automation voice integration only.
• ✗ SmartThings: doesn't work — SmartThings is absent from iAquaLink's official integrations page (which lists Alexa, Siri Shortcuts, and pro AV systems like Control4/Crestron) and from the FREEDOM Plus product page; the only SmartThings paths found are community projects targeting AquaLink control panels, not the FREEDOM cleaner.
• ✗ Home Assistant: doesn't work — The official HA Jandy iAquaLink integration supports only iAquaLink-cloud pool/spa automation platforms (iQ20 and eXO) — a standalone cordless robot on the iAquaLink app is among the 'other iAquaLink systems [that] are not supported'. The 'cleaner' entities in HA's docs are cleaner circuits wired to a pool controller's auxiliary relays, not robotic cleaners.

Connection: Wi-Fi · Hub for full use: Not checked — we have not established whether this needs a hub · Works offline: Not checked — we have not established whether this keeps working without the internet

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Sutro Pool Monitor — the catch, per ecosystem

• ✗ Amazon Alexa: doesn't work — No Alexa integration — Sutro's own smart-device compatibility article lists Amazon Alexa only under roadmap items being considered; no skill ever shipped.
• ✗ Google Home: doesn't work — The only Google path Sutro documents is a legacy Assistant conversational Action ('OK Google, talk to my Sutro Smart Home') — a class Google retired platform-wide in June 2023 — so no working Google Home integration exists; do not buy Sutro expecting Google Home control.
• ✗ Apple Home: doesn't work — No HomeKit and no Siri path — Sutro's own compatibility article lists Apple HomeKit only as a roadmap item under consideration.
• ✗ SmartThings: doesn't work — App-only as far as SmartThings is concerned — Sutro's dedicated smart-device article names only Google Home plus an Alexa/HomeKit roadmap; SmartThings appears nowhere in Sutro's materials.
• ✗ Home Assistant: doesn't work — No official or vendor-supported Home Assistant path — home-assistant.io lists no Sutro integration and Sutro's materials name none; the only route is a small unofficial community project.

Connection: Wi-Fi · Hub for full use: Not checked — we have not established whether this needs a hub · Works offline: Not checked — we have not established whether this keeps working without the internet

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