Brinsea Ovation 56 EX Connect App Yellow/Black Eggs

Great product works great. If you want a trouble free incubator for years this is what i would purchase again.

I am a small scale chicken farmer, breeding chickens, selling eggs and meat birds. I was told to buy this by a fellow chicken farmer. I regret the purchase. It only works as well as my $70 incubator. My first 2 hatches in this Brinsea were 40-50% hatch rate. My 3rd, zero hatched. ZERO!? Hmmm. So I put a Govee Hydro thermometer into the Brinsea to start my 4th batch, and found why my 3rd was unsuccessful. Both the temp and RH on the Brinsea suddenly became wildly inaccurate. My Brinsea temp is colder than the displayed temp by 1.3 degrees- enough to ruin a hatch. The humidity is also 11% higher than shown on the display. It also needs to be taped with electrical tape all around it in order to hold the humidity in, especially during Lock Down. Unfortunately this causes condensation to leak out of the seam between top lid and bottom base, so I got a nice little water outline on the table underneath the machine. One of these factors is enough to ruin a hatch. All these factors combined is a huge bummer for the cost. I would not buy this expensive, average performing machine again. The ability to control settings with my phone is not worth the money. I only give this machine 2 stars, because IF I was trying to hatch and did not work from home, the wifi at least give me control away from the machine…but I work from home and check my incubators many times a day. Using a Govee Hydro Thermometer inside my generic Chinese WonEgg incubator has given me better success. I am shopping for a 3rd incubator so I can hatch weekly, and will not buy this one again.

I love the Brinsea products but the wifi doesn't work with some androids. Apparently this is an issue Brinsea is aware of.