I know that many of us were looking for a reasonably priced leak sensor with a sensor cable. Well looks like Shelly has listened with it's Gen4 version of the it's Flood sensor. Zigbee, WiFi, Matter and Bluetooth built in with an extendable sensor cable (7.50 USD per 2m lengths) up to 150m long. They even link to 3D print files for clips to hold the cable (nice touch).
As much as I like Sinope devices, there sensor and cables were way overpriced for what it was. Hoping these cables are compatible with the Sinope Water Heater switch so that I don't have to build another one myself with AliExpress sensor cable.
Those only sense water at the probe at the end of the cable, a sense cable like used on the Shelly Flood Gen4 and Sinope flood sensors, detect water anywhere on the total length of the cable. They are made of a spiral plastique with 2 grooves that go around on all the length, then bares wires are placed inside those 2 grooves so that when water makes contact anywhere between the 2 wires it triggers a sense.
These type of sensors are especially nice to use around a water heater, under a dish washer on it's perimeter, can be attached under a length of pipe to detect a leak (a pipe that could freeze and burst if it does), etc. Also nice that since you usually place around a perimeter, even if the surface is not level, wherever it is it will be in the path of the water.
I have one of these sensors, but I can't figure out the right driver.
It installed with a Tuyata or something, which didn't seem to work.
I found some other thread with Shelly drivers, which I installed through the Hubitat Package Manager, and then when I changed to that driver for my device, I notice it is a "webhook" driver, and there's an "ip address" in settings, so I think I installed the wrong one and it assumes a wifi sensor. I'm using the flood sensor as a zigbee sensor.
Yeah, that's the one I installed with the package manager, but the only driver in there that mentions "flood" is called "Shelly Flood (webhook)" and has an ip address in the config which has a red star. I don't know what relevance an ip address has to my zigbee sensor. Nor a webhook, so I conclude this driver is for using the device as a wifi device, not zigbee. And when I choose it, it doesn't seem to work.
I saw a comment in that thread - someone asked "What about the Shelly Flood Gen4?" and the reply was "Flood Gen4 is also Zigbee and Matter compatible, so no real need of having it on this driver."
So, I'm concluding that whole package is not for zigbee.
So, what zigbee driver for the Gen4 flood sensor IS compatible ?
Or am I being dumb about something here ?
So, I've just gone and looked at the device again. I thought I'd try the generic zigbee moisture sensor. I pressed the button on the device and it's flashing purple. I go to scan for new zigbee devices on hubitat, and it finds and re-connects, it says, but it doesn't stop flashing purple. And wetting the sensor, the device beeps, but nothing in the events for the device in hubitat.
So I think pairing is just not working with this POS.
Do I have to go connect to it through wifi, and reconfigure it that way first or something? Update some firmware? This is annoying.
First, ensure that the device remains connected to your hub. With the HE default 'Device' driver, do you see any activity in the live logs when you wet the sensor? If not, is there anything in the logs when you remove the battery and then reinsert it into the device?
Please post a screenshot of the Device Data section (found at the bottom of the Info tab).
What is your HE hub model? C-7 and older models will not work with Shelly Gen4 devices. Shelly requires Zigbee 3.0-capable hubs.
Yeah, it's a C-7. They should mention that on the box...... I'll stop trying zigbee then, thanks.
I tried connecting through "matter", and connected to the AP, and told it my real wifi network, and got to the point of connecting it to my google home app, and then using the code to share that with Hubitat, but I still wasn't seeing events. I forget which driver it was using but I changed it to the webhooks one, and put in the ip address I knew the device was at, but didn't have any username or password set up that that I knew about but that's not working either....
I still see it on my google home app, so I went and wet the cord, and the device beeped, but my google home app still shows "no leak" for the device.....
I don't know, I guess I'll try setting it up again next weekend using Matter again and see if it decides to work.....
Thank you for the group therapy. I can’t get mine to work either. I am going to pair it to Apple Home, set a virtual water sensor in Hubitat and share it through the bridge, then sync the virtual device through HomeKit automation.
I wish the Shelly integration worked better. These are great devices.
