Don't Trust SmartThings Leak Sensor (made by Centralite) Battery Reporting

[ritchierich]

@rcjordan

I'm slowly converting my battery devices to usb where power is available or can be added with reasonable effort.

Yes I have been doing this with motion and temp/humidity sensors that are hard to reach:

Homemade Battery Eliminators

I wanted to share this project with the community in case you have similar challenges. I do NOT however want to get into a debate on the cost of batteries vs the cost of converting sensors to batteries which has been debated several times on this community; I realize this is more expensive. But I value my personal time and this has and will save me there. Several years ago when still using the ST platform, I explained how I converted a few sensors from batteries to USB power: Make a battery …

Leak sensors are hard given location. Plus batteries last so long it hasn’t been worth it for me.