Do you see the battery percentage reports at regular intervals (4 hours)?
no. I see battery updates when I refresh. And I refresh every time I power on/off.
Noted.
I’m afraid there aren’t many good options if the device doesn’t report its valve state changes on its own. The TS011F is a pretty basic Tuya model (usually used for plugs/switches), so the issue could be in the firmware… or maybe there’s some specific initialization we’re missing.
A possible workaround would be to poll the TS011F periodically for open/closed status, but that’s not really a good practice and I’d prefer to avoid it.
If you’re up for experimenting, you could try the Tuya Zigbee Metering Plug driver instead. Just make sure to hit the Initialize button — or even better, re-pair the device with this driver already assigned. Then see what happens: does the on/off status update right away, or only after about 60 seconds?
Unfortunately there is no option to poll the device. I do ping them every 30 minutes to check the RTT time and if it doesn't change I get a notification as this is a good way of checking it is still online.
I tried this and I'm afraid the device state didn't update after 3 minutes if manually changed.
Thanks for looking into this issue.
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Has anyone have any experience with a device similar to the one in the photo ?
Would it work with this driver, or any other Hubitat driver ?
it is battery operated (4xAA)
I've got this one. The device signature is _TZE284_zm8zpwas and it works fine with the TS0601 option of @kkossev 's driver.
Thanks to @kkossev
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It looks like the clamp for the pipe and the arm that turns the valve (the gray/silver colored parts of the device in the photo) are all made of plastic.
I would not be surprised if it failed prematurely.
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Folks - this is @kkossev's thread for his zigbee valve driver. Let's not distract from that purpose. Thanks! 
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Hi @ilkeraktuna ,
Thank you for the feedback!
When you don't know the exact Zigbee Model and Manufacturer, in many cases, it's rather difficult to say in advance whether a particular device will work with Hubitat.
Searching for the product image in Google is usually not very helpful too.... What can be done is to manually search and visually compare the images in one of the best online Zigbee devices database :
Search for 'valve' :
Unfortunately, in this case I don't see a valve picture that looks like yours.
Next source is :
Search for 'Novato'
Here we find that the model is 'Novato ZPV-01'
Now, search in Google for Novato ZPV-01 and check if this brand model is found in anly GitHub posts
Here it is :
Next - search Hubitat forum for the exact Zigbee manufacturer : _TZE284_zm8zpwas
We see only your post in the search, so no other users have shared experience with this particular device.
You can search also this driver code (from the link in the first post) :
This device manufacturer code was not found..
The conclusion is, that it is not 100% sure whether this device will work with this driver.
However, * TS0601 _TZE284_zm8zpwas was found to be supported in Zigbee2MQTT
So, the chances to work or the chances to make it work in Hubitat using a custom driver are good!
In your case, you were lucky that it worked even without modifying the driver. 
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thanks for the detailed information about how to find a clue about a specific device.
actually I was not looking for anyone to make any research for my sepcific device.
just asked if anyone had any experience with it. And at the time prior to my purchase, only thing I had about it was that product listing image.
So I tried my chance. I saw no response, then I decided to give it a chance. I was lucky.
Then I came back to inform everyone that it works with your driver.
thanks anyway.
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ver. 1.6.4 2025-10-25 :
- added 'Update Zigbee Firmware' command for non-Tuya devices;
- added sonoffAutoShutOff attribute and preference (requires firmware 1.0.4);
- Sonoff switch and valve states are updated (digitally) when irrigation starts/stops (workaround)
Note: The Sonoff SWV firmware version 1.0.4 is not yet available for update; we hope to have it in HE soon.
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Any thoughts why when I run an update check in HPM it tells me that this app is up to date yet it says its running ver 1.61 and we’re up to 1.64?
I haven't pushed updates for this driver via HPM in quite some time. You can update to the latest version manually by using the 'Repair' function in HPM.
Additionally, there is one more issue that needs to be addressed for the Sonoff SVW firmware version 1.0.4, which is on my TODO list for the coming days.
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Hi @lotussteve - I've managed to also get my SGW02 dual tap controller working with the above advice - thanks for the steer to advanced options!!
QQ please - how did you get your virtual switches working to control in RM (I just need to be able to turn valve 1 and valve 2 on and off) - I can't seem to find a way to target Valve2?
Many thanks, Lee.
And huge thanks @kkossev for this driver, really appreciate your work on this!!
Think I've figured it out. For anyone else struggling, I had to run a 'custom action' on the device, select 'actuator' and then I could call custom command "setValve2" and set to string value of either "open" or "closed"
