So I purchased a smartthings water sensor today.
So long story short. My bathroom toilet flooded due to the kids. It flooded into the hvac and damaged the basement ceiling. I’ve been spending all day fixing the ceiling....
So I decided to buy one and expand a few throughout the house due to this incident.
Ugh. Sorry to hear that!
I had to do that about 10 years ago. My evaporator drain clogged and my old AC didn't have a float switch. My evaporator is upstairs; it was a day before i found out about the leak - had to change out the sheetrock behind the evaporator, in the ceiling of one of the bedrooms, and the ceiling of the garage (live in townhouse).
When I redid everything, the first thing I did was to wire in a float switch. And after that, I've put leak sensors wherever I there's likely to be a leak. A few weeks ago, I had a leak in reverse-osmosis water purifier under my kitchen sink - the combination of a leak sensor and automated water valve cut off the water before any real damage (my kitchen is upstairs too).
No fun.
Almost to the point of priming. I have one coat of mud left to do.
I feel your pain.
Well that was dead simple. Paired up a Smartthings Leak sensor.
The xiaomi aqara leak sensors work with Hubitat, and are about $12 apiece.
Just make sure you have a few Ikea Tradri plugs about to work as repeaters. The plugs are about $12 each as well.
hm.... I don't....
Worth considering getting a few - because the the Xiaomi Aqara sensors are inexpensive and accurate. Their only major issue is that they're finicky about which zigbee repeaters they work with.
There's a nice thread by @veeceeoh (who has written/maintained/collected drivers for the Aqara devices), about which zigbee devices work well as repeaters for Xiaomi Aqara, and equally important, which ones do not work. The thread is here;
The thread with drivers for Xiaomi Aqara devices is here:
Edit: The Ikea outlets are $10 apiece. Three placed "strategically" were sufficient to cover my ~2000 sq ft two storey townhouse.
As a real estate agent I've seen the damage an undetected water leak can do numerous times so when I saw a water valve controller I knew I should install one in next home. We went with the EcoNet Bulldog, it works very well. Other than testing it hasn't been triggered yet, but it sure does give us peace of mind!
I did. And they did. Dome's customer service has been superior.
Shortly after I installed the replacement, a false alert triggered the valve and the Dome worked perfectly. (Taking into account that I have a rule interrupt power to the shutoff valve because it doesn't shut down by itself.)
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