Hey Folks,
Anyone know if these will be supported? @mike.maxwell @bobbyD
Got 4 on the way to try out.
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Sonoff is one of the most popular brands in Europe and deserves native HE drivers support.
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Ugh! Second season with Giex valve for the backyard and just added the Rain Seer valve for the front.
Not going to lie, though. If support is confirmed and these go on sale, then I will be forced to irrigate more stuff.
How is the Giex working for you? I have an Orbit but it won't stay connected... If these Sonoff's don't work out, is the Giex a viable option?
I have the Giex ones and although they have been working, they are not the best on batteries. Having to replace them every couple weeks. Got a Sonoff repeater about 4 feet away too that they route through.
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The Giex has been a solid performer. I appreciate that you can set local limits for time and volume. It will turn off when the boundary conditions are met which helps to avoid various accidents - missed command, simply forgot to turn off, broken component in irrigation system.
My battery life experience was better than @chad.andrews. I ran the same set all summer and the valve was still checking in over the winter. I replaced the batteries for the new season.
Two cautions. 1) There is a "new version" of the Giex being advertised which I have not tried. 2) Packaging is not as good as Sonoff, so I received one damaged unit that I had to return.
They look the part. See tonight if they join up and if there is something existing I can use as a driver to control them
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I've been looking at these but haven't taken the plunge yet.
I'm running standard timer ones at the moment and my thinking is fitting one and writing a couple of pistons to control them depending on weather conditions.
I'd be interested in hearing your experience with them.
I have been using this fine app with 4 giex water valves and 1 dome water valve
It works great for my needs, the author change a few things to make it more suitable to watering. Mine looks like this.
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Update, the valve joined up perfectly. It joined as a Device, obviously no driver exists for it yet. I switched to the Sinope water valve Driver and I can operate it. Battery is reading 100%, and open and close works. Maybe lots of information below to make it fully functional / develop a driver for it @mike.maxwell
Update 2, a few attributes are being skipped with the Sinope Water Valve driver, as expected. I would assume one of these are for the water flow. You can see the value increasing as the time goes on with the valve open
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Following as well. Got 2 in the mail yesterday 
If open & close work fine, can you just use an app like Simple Irrigation for the scheduling?
What other features would a specialized driver have?
Yes it will work, but having the proper driver will ensure the battery level reads correctly, and the flow is being reported and / or any other special functions. It will prevent errors from popping up in the logs, right now the driver doesn't know what to do with the extra messages being received from the device, it is either ignored or an error is thrown. Some use the flow to shut off the device, i.e. x liters of water then close the valve. Also good in case a valve is left on or missed the close command as a second shut off.
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I ordered one of these and its been working fine with simple Open/Closed commands provided via the Sinope driver.
In the last couple of days though controlling the valve either through HE or via the Open/Close button on the device itself opens the valve for 1 second before it then closes itself. I doubt the issue is with HE as it is the same issue using the button on the device but I thought I would share on here.
I've messaged Sonoff for help, will see if they can suggest anything before I return it.
I really love the valve (when it worked) and it would be great to get an official driver for this to potentially unlock the other features.
Sounds like you have the irrigation timer set. Try setting it with @kkossev driver like he suggests over in the Tuya Valve thread
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Good suggestion,
The issue was definitely user related 
- I had a conflicting rule which was impacting the valve.
Now sorted - thanks
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I recently got 3 of these and I'm using the native Sinope Water Valve driver, which does work but has some deficiencies. The full battery level always starts off showing 62%, and I have to refresh the device in order to get feedback to confirm position changes, and flow rate seems to not work at all. Anybody working on/aware of a new or better driver for this device yet?
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Somehow I missed post above about the Tuya driver; after installing that driver, turning on Advanced Options, and selecting the SONOFF_SWV_VALVE model, things are working much better. Only thing that still doesn't seem functional is the Rate, although at least now there is now a value for irrigationVolume.
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