Hey,
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Has anyone created a custom device handler for an Alfawise door sensor?
On Gearbest the Alfawise Magnetic Door Sensor is £6!
https://gearbest.app.link/O13AoPCamU
sidjohn1
(sidjohn1)
February 16, 2019, 3:07pm
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This device? Cause Smartthings is not a 433mhz gateway.
https://www.gearbest.com/access-control/pp_009265973897.html
This may help though
Cheap and reliable don’t always go together.
Right now there are three popular solutions for those in the U.K. for whom cost is a primary factor:
1. Very inexpensive, somewhat wonky.
Xiaomi sensors are very inexpensive, often £7 to £9 from gearbest.com , but most of the models are not certified to the zigbee home automation standard, so they are somewhat “idiosyncratic.” Pairing can be very difficult. After you do get them paired, you may find that they don’t work well with all your repeaters, which can cause messages to get lost and status to fail to update, or they may drop off the network all together. And at least once a platform update from SmartThings caused all of them to fail at once. So for those who are willing to run the risk, these can save a great deal of money, but…
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Of course, sorry I didn’t read the specs a bit more.
Thanks
sidjohn1
(sidjohn1)
March 21, 2019, 11:05pm
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My Spanish is a bit rusty, but i think it says its zigbee… so maybe. Unlike zwave, zigbee does not force manufactures to follow the standard. $9 sounds too good to be true but you are more than welcome to roll the dice.