The one you see in the first post in this thread is what I have:
I ordered mine from WalMart. Was supposed to be a three-pack of that sensor, but I got two and then a third different sensor w/no cable. I complained and WalMart refunded me so I ended up happy.
I even extended the cable on one in my attic so I could run the sensor waaaay into my attic to reach a steam shower generator unit, and allow me to keep the base unit right by the attic access so battery changes are easy. Used this cable:
OK, I went ahead and ordered one through Walmart.com. Possibly a different seller than you used (this one didn't have good reviews, but we'll see). The NEO Tuya ZigBee Smart Home Water Leak Sensor Wireless Flooding Detector looks very much like the Dome one.
There were many other Tuya Zigbee sensors under different brands, different shapes, different batteries on AliExpress in the $7 - $10 range, but I didn't want to take a chance on one that hasn't already been shown to work with HE, and also potentially with a much shorter non-detachable cable for the probe.
I know, one of the reasons I got them. @kkossev wrote the driver for these. Install the driver from HPM. If when you pair it doesn't automatically choose the driver, post the fingerprint to @kkossev and he can add it to the driver.
Ask @kkossev about most Tuya devices. He has a lot of experience with them and could probably answer questions about them better than anyone. He really is a good guy to work with. A very valuable asset to this community.
I was doing my usual āsearch Hubitat forums for recommendationsā and found this threadā¦figured Iād drop an FYI that the Linkind 4-pack is again $39.99 on Amazon for Black Friday.
The ThirdReality sensors are on sale also for $16 eachā¦most of their stuff is right now. Iām grabbing one of those for the claimed-louder (120db vs 90db) alarm for one spot.
But wait; there's more There's also a 20% off coupon bringing the price down to $31.99. That's $7.99 per leak sensor which is pretty tough to beat. I've had 12 of these in service since May and love them. They use 2 AAA batteries and all are still reporting 100% battery life.
Well, can't argue with 4 for $31.99 and I love the AAA battery aspect. Can use these for those hard-to-reach nether regions in my crawl space.
There are many positive data points in this thread, so not worried but curious if there is a reason why this particular sensor is not on the compatibility list while five other Linkind products are.
On a side note, I've given up on Zooz ZSE42 leak sensors. They are eating batteries like crazy even with very conservative reporting parameters set. I looked into upgrading the firmware on them to see if that would help, but my hub is C-4 which makes upgrading nontrivial.
[Context: The Linkind Water Leak Sensors currently on sale $31.99 for a four-pack on Amazon]
As some of the reviews stated, batteries are supplied with the sensor, which is nice except that they are installed at manufacture time and thus almost all were dead.
I don't remember if they had a pull tab to disable the battery. I'll know in a day or two when my new ones arrive.
However, my existing ones were installed 9 months ago. Those all still read 100% on the battery. The only way I can imagine new ones arriving with dead batteries was if they put bad batteries in them. That would be sad.
There was no pull tab on mine and the way the back is screwed on very tightly, no way there could have been. Of eight batteries, five were outright dead, two low, and one read almost into acceptable range. No big deal .. I put fresh batteries in all of them. Glad your experience was different.
These seem pretty nice to me. I like the loud alarm, which my old Intellitech ones don't have. On the other hand, the Intellitechs have a 10' cord with the 'sensor' at the end. Would these alarm in time if they got dunked quick? If yes, you'd have other things to think about other than the leak sensor surviving.
Kudos to Zooz support. After I contacted them, they made the .gbl file accessible via http link to use with the [BETA] Updated binary firmware updater. Note this is not the built-in Z-Wave Firmware Updater (which cannot be used with pre-C7 to update the ZSE42]. I've not yet been successful at upgrading ZSE42s this way (sticks at "Wake up your sleepy device"), but I haven't spent much time on it either.
There's also a 20% off coupon bringing the price down to $31.99. That's $7.99 per leak sensor which is pretty tough to beat. I've had 12 of these in service since May and love them. They use 2 AAA batteries and all are still reporting 100% battery life.
