Water Sensor 7 Pro

I use this with Home Assistant to monitor the water heater pan for water. The brains are mounted a couple of feet up the water heater and the sensor is in the pan on the water heater shell. It paired right up with Home Assistant and I can see battery, temp, humidity and water detection. I have an automation that turns off the Moen Flo if water is detected and alerts me.

This is the second of these I have ordered and they work great with my old Vera Edge Zwave system. I have one monitoring an old hot water heater (that I'm sure will go out soon) for leaks and garage temperature while the other monitors a dryer vent in the attic for leaks and the attic temperature. I can't comment on the battery life as yet, but they monitoring works great. There is a slight trick to the manual adding to Vera, but the documentation is thorough and explains each step of the manual add process.

Once I got it paired with my Hubitat, it works great. But was an annoying sequence. First, factory zero it, by holding down the pairing button for about 30 seconds, until light changed. Then unpair it by pushing the pairing button madly until the light changes again, and it unpairs as an unidentified Z wave device. Then pair it the same way, and pairs as a generic Z wave sensor. THEN, go into Hubitat Devices, and change device from generic sensor to what it actually is. Then tap save and then tap Update. After all of that, it finally works fine, probably 50' from Hubitat at least, and down a floor, so has a floor and 2 walls between them.

Great sensor and super accurate - but I’ll admit at first I thought I had a dud. Paired this very easily to my Aeotec SmartThings Hub, and immediately learned that it had a humidity sensor in addition to the temperature sensor, which is pretty awesome. Even though I’m using this to monitor my sump pump (for early flood detection in the event of failure) I can imagine that having the temp and humidity sensor would be hugely beneficial for avoiding burst pipes or in spaces that have water in the first place and you would want to mitigate excessive humidity. May buy a few more for those cabinet spaces I always worry about in the winter. Anyway, a few days after dangling the probe into my sump pump I started receiving wet alerts, frequently. They would almost always reset to “normal” until they didn’t. I checked to ensure that water wasn’t rising to reach the probe, and when I determined it wasn’t close I thought I had a defective unit. That is until I inspected a little more closely and realized a spider had spun one tiny strand of web between the two probes, and when enough moisture condensed on this web it closed the circuit!! Crazy sensitive. Cleared the web off and I’ve been alert free since, and also happy with the peace of mind that this thing works WELL!

I ordered two of these after receiving assurances from my alarm.com monitoring provider that they are compatible with my alarm.com system. When I received the two devices, the tamper microswitch was broken and unusable, making it impossible to trigger the device for setup. I returned the item for a replacement through Amazon, only to discover after a few hours of attempting to configure and 8+ phone calls that these units are not compatible with alarm.com systems, with ANY panel hardware.

I purchased this product to use along with a Aeotec SmartThings Hub. I installed a very nice dehumidifier in my crawl space and combined that with a condensation pump to remove water to the outside of the house. I place the condensation pump in a plastic cat litter box. In the event of pump failure, the water will spill over into the plastic box and the water sensor will alert me of a problem. I can then use my SmartThings app to turn off the smart plug that the dehumidifier is plugged into. Stopping the dehumidifier temporarily will allow me to correct the pump problem and prevent water from pumping into the crawl space area. Occasionally, I will open my SmartThings app and the water sensor will be offline. A little while later it will be back online. I don't know if the floor is thick enough to interrupt the wireless connection or if the device is just buggy. I'm happy with it for the most part.

After an hour of setup works well to some extent. The instructions are terrible, fails multiple times. The QR doesn't work, and the serial number to add manually doesnt work. This means that you can't put it into secure pairing mode. Zero documentation of support as to why their QR doesn't work, the error it produces, same with serial number. In fact had it setup finally but wouldn't register being wet. This was due to some corruption from the secure setup failure inthink, had to factory reset atleast a few times. In tne end, rock solid. But man, what a careless approach to putting a product out. Documentation, testing, and ahpukd have taken 2 minutes.

easy to setup with SmartThings. Very sensitive water sensor