Sensor with screw terminals for external contacts/switch

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Is the Ecolink DWZWAVE2.5-ECO still the best bet for a sensor with screw terminals that can be used for an external contact or switch? I have several and they work fine - just wondering if I am missing something new, better, etc. (Feeling lazy - not interested in cutting and soldering)

Thanks!

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The Aeotec Door/Windows Sensor 7 also has the screw terminals. Not sure of how well it performs though. It's sitting on my desk not in use yet.

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As it happens, I've been researching screw terminal contact sensors this week. The Ecolink still seems to be tops. I have 3, all working well.

But I want zigbee from here out, so I'm going to have to solder. Easiest mod looks to be the Visonic.

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I was hoping there might be a Zigbee option . . . I would prefer it.

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Thanks. I didn't know about that one.

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Not zigbee but I have a couple fibaro contact sensors.

One of them I have a temperature sensor wired into so I can monitor the temperature of my pool. The second I have a float switch wired to to monitor my pool water level.

Works well.

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I'm still using the older GoControls (3 of them). When they die, I'll look for a zigbee replacement.

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For others that might read this thread, the Visonic mod with pic of the solder points;

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This is neat hack :slight_smile: However keep in mind when connecting across the internal reed switch the inputs have no protection from AC pickup or ESD damage coming in on the added wires.

I don't know for sure but I would assume the ECOLink device has some input protection since the board is expecting wires coming from the outside the case.

John

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I'm trying to wrap my head around what folks are using the screw terminals for on the Ecolink. I have a few. Are they using the Ecolink as a bridge, so to speak, from another non-wireless/Zwave contact into a Zwave joined contact? I have a driveway IR sensor that's got output terminals on the receiver that activate when it gets signal that driveway sensor sees something. Can I wire that output into the Ecolink terminals and then configure that Ecolink Zwave contact in Hubitat to notify me? I guess first question is, are those Ecolink terminals INPUTs or OUTPUTs???

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Yes, pretty much any dry contact/relay switch can be wired to the INPUT terminals on the ecolink z-wave contact sensor.

When the attached contact closes, the ecolink sensor will change status and send an event to Hubitat.

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This. They are dry contact terminals. I use them for all manner of things including:

  1. As a power monitor
  2. Determining whether the air-handler blower is running
  3. Garage door tilt sensor
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Now I'll beg your pardon for my ignorance. The driveway receiver has both Normally Open and Normally Closed output terminals. Which do I wire into the Ecolink's normally open(?) dry contact terminals? Normally Open to Normally Open right?

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Yes if the device has both NO and NC outputs, I believe you’d use the normally open output.

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