What does everyone recommend for a good leak sensor. I am coming from smart things and loved their leak Sensors. Just cannot find them anymore.
If you can wait a little while, they will be available again as an Aeotec product:
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Not likely at the same price point however !!
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I'm in the same boat. The two types of sensors I have I love (dome and ST), but neither are available to purchase right now.
Considering going for the Ring ones (I have a Ring alarm) while I wait...
I have the Iris Leak Sensors. They have worked well. Can still find a few on Ebay
Depends on what you want to use it for. I use one of these Utilitech ones to monitor my sump pump in case the pump fails and the water level rises above a certain point. The long sensor wire works great for this purpose. Can still find them cheap on Ebay. They are ZWAVE.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Utilitech-Water-Leak-Detector-White-Indoor-Flood-Sensor/4740940
Homeseer makes a couple of decent z-wave sensors. The battery-powered LS (-100??) sensor has worked well for me, and is also a decent temp sensor. The FS-100 flex sensor works almost too well, in that the leak sensor cord you attach to it can signal a leak in high humidity (not great for a well room area, for example, but great for detecting even a drop of water). The FS can be powered by battery or USB and also has a great thermometer function that can report every minute if desired, on USB power.
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Aqara one from Xiaomi works fine for me. Cheap too.
I have 12 Utilitech in service. They are z-wave (not plus), don't report much on battery, beep on low battery, have a 10' cord, look good (to me), and cheap. They were used as part of Iris. Batteries, 3AAA, require a little screw to be removed-annoying.
They may not report, but everytime I test one, it works.
I ended up repurposing some cheap Ecolink zigbee contact sensors I got for less than $5 a piece off ebay, and an Ecolink Z wave tilt sensor I was no longer using.
I connected the contacts to some probes from amazon. I had to customize some generic drivers to make them "water/leak sensors" but they seem to work well. And you can run additional probes in parallel to add more coverage.
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That's brilliant.
Would you be willing to share your driver tweaks?
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I'll try to get them on Git later today.
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I like this idea, is it working out for you? Where can I find the drivers you mentioned?
Seems to be working fine. Here's a link to my Git , there is a zigbee and z wave version.
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Looking at trying this hack. The 'ol Aqara just keep going astray even though I have rid myself of all ZB repeaters except Ikea.
I assume there are a couple of blank pads on the cct board or did you just use the reed relay connections?
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