Pretty dumb request ahead.....
I was having a ton of work done in my basement and in the process, my Fibaro Leak Sensor (FGFS-101) is now lost. It was sitting in front of my hot water heater, but I had some HVAC contractors in working around the area, and now I can't find it.
Is there a way to send / trigger a "wet" status so that the sensor's alarm will sound?
Its 'somewhere' in my utility room, I hope, and the alarm should help me find it.
Some leak sensor drivers let you manually set the status to wet (or with a custom command), but this would only tell Hubitat that the sensor is wet. I doubt seriously it would tell the sensor to sound an alarm.
The standard Fibaro driver doesn't have that parameter. I loaded up the Z-Wave Universal Device Scanner to see if I could find something by poking around. But I suspect it will require sending a Hex command....which is above my paygrade.
The FGFS-101 leak sensor is a special case. There are built-in audio and visual alarms in the device. So if @ckronengold could set it to an alarm state (i.e. wet), it will make a sound and flash the built-in LED.
The rub is that without physical access to the device, I can't force it to wake up and receive any updates to the config with the Z-Wave Universal Device Scanner.
And the default wakeup interval is set to 43200, so I'll be waiting for 12 hours to see if I can get info / tweak parameters.
I would buy another and if the original shows up ( which it will since you bought a replacement ) then you have a redundant leak sensor. Every leak sensor in my house has another one just like it right next to each other.
I have only seen Zigbee sensors where you can send an ON command to trigger the alarm manually. The way Z-Wave devices sleep to save battery, there is no way to wake it up from the hub, so no way to trigger anything. I reviewed a manual for that device and I dont think there are any commands or settings that will help you. Short of getting it wet I dont think there is a way to trigger the alarm on it.
But do you also have a level checking level?
Sorry just made me think of that for some reason.
heh heh. so true. This one happened to be my semi-redundant sensor. I have one on the floor in my utility room next to the water filter and softener and had this one on the floor next to the hot water heater. They were only 8-10 feet apart, so in a catastrophe, I'd have gotten at least one alert.
This is my kind of paranoia. But, the same manufacturer?! You need an entirely different device for better redundancy!
No but my mother was a math teacher. She would use the calculator and check its answer against her answer. After a few times she stopped doing it the old way.
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