Z-Wave Dry Contact Sensor

[bmachia]

Good Day to all and thanks for reading this post.

I am looking for Z-Wave, Dry Sensor suggestions.

I would like to connect a Garage Door Photo Beam Sensor to this device. The Beam Sensor would normally be Open and would Close the circuit when the beam is broken. When Closed this Z-Wave device would signal Hubitat I have a closed circuit.

Can anyone tell me about their experience with this type of Z-Wave Dry Sensor?

Thanks
Bill

[aaiyar]

@bmachia

Can anyone tell me about their experience with this type of Z-Wave Dry Sensor?

I have used the Aeotec ZW097 dry contact sensor for applications like this. I have also used the external contacts on the GoControl contact sensor for the same purpose. They both work well with Hubitat.

[snell]

Agree with @aaiyar. My experience has been with the GoControl (or other branding of the same device) and the external sensor has proven very handy for other uses.

[Terk]

If you want to control something like a garage door opener those dry contact relays are the way to go, if you want to connect the beam sensor to a dry contact device that reports back to Hubitat when the connection changes you could use a DWZWAVE2.5-ECO but it seams like those beam sensors usually run off 12 volts that's fed through those wires so I'm not sure if that device would work.