Good luck! Post a review after you get them, they look like nice devices.
As I am a sucker for recommendations I am thinking of getting a few of these but has anyone got any recommendations for anything else from this company that is a lot cheaper?
Editā¦ As I am browsing I have noticed that some things show which warehouse the item comes from - so presumably by choosing something that comes from an EU warehouse then it will be guaranteed there will be no import charges.
Mavis, thereās a dedicated website for their EU warehouse (which I thought was in the UK).
Stuff tends to arrive very quickly from there, and obviously with no customs worries.
Similarly, DealExchange also has an EU warehouse - bigger range of products than BG.
Iām forever buying a load of old tut from both sites!
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How did you pair them, @rednose66? My sensors have turned up, but ālooking for thingsā in the ST app doesnāt find them. I notice thereās a button on the sensor which flashes a green LED. But the instructions are a bit sparse.
How do you put the things into pairing mode?
Did you try holding the button down until the LED flash pattern changes?
Remove the battery for a few seconds and replace them. The green light flashes temporarily - it was at this moment I put the ST app into search mode and the Thing appears within 5-10 seconds.
I also noticed that if I held the button in for a couple of seconds the green light started to flash in a similar fashion as replacing the battery.
The next evolution for this device would be battery levels being reportedā¦but other than that they look really nice and the āunclipā feature is great for replacing batteries.
Thanks all. Got it working. The āSearching for thingsā didnāt report finding anything (just kept looking), but when I logged into the API it was waiting there for me. Device type changed and now itās fine.
Battery reporting would be good - wonder whether the data is in there somewhere? Temperature tooā¦
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Iāll keep an eye on this thread. I got disappointed when the Xiaomi ones decided they didnāt want to stay paired 
The Orvibo devices are certified for the Zigbee Home Automation profile (ZHA 1.2), which is the same one SmartThings uses. The Xiaomi ones are not. So the Orvibo should have no difficulty staying on the ST network.
Many devices use zigbee, thatās basically the āoutside of the envelope.ā But once the message is delivered, if the sender and receiver donāt use the same zigbee protocol they may not be able to fully understand the contents of that " envelope." Or it may not get the number of envelopes it expects.
In this case, Xiaomi, like some Zigbee devices, appears to be expecting an occasional check in message which SmartThings doesnāt send since it is not part of the ZHA profile. So it drops off the network.
I expect if the Xiaomi devices were used with their own gateway, theyād be fine. But theyāll likely fail in the same way with any zigbee coordinator using the ZHA profile, not just ST.
On the other hand, Orvibo made a splashy announcement at CES that their line of sensors would use the ZHA profile and they carried through on that. So they were designed from the beginning to work with third party coordinators (that use ZHA), including ST. 
You wonāt get temperature reportingāone reason the Orvibo devices are so inexpensive is that they have minimal internals. Itās not just that they arenāt reporting temperatureāthey donāt have the hardware to measure it in the first place. (Thatās not uncommon with inexpensive sensors.)
Battery reporting is a different issue as thatās a standard function for this device class. Itās likely that there is a way to get that, but it might require a custom device handler.
Yeah I understand that. It was the price that made me hopeful. The SwannOneās got me hopeful too after their support told me their motion sensors are Zigbee HA 1.2, but they also have a disconnection issue.
Good to know Orbivo have made the effort though. May have to invest 
The SwannOne devices are HA1.2 certified, but they also keep falling off the ST network. So I donāt think certification is the be all and end allā¦
True, it never is. But itās an important first step.
On the SwannOne, I havenāt followed those, whatās the insecure rejoin setting when they fall off? Thatās a separate known issue.
No, itās not the rejoin issue - itās something else.
Well, Iām happy to report that the Orvibo door sensors stay connected without any problems at all.
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Iām also able to confirm that Iāve not had any issues so far. Would need to look into to see if it is possible to report on battery levels. Otherwise work well.
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Iāve been keeping on eye on this thread as like many here, devices in Ireland are even more expensive than the UK. If Orvibo sensors are compatible with ST does that mean the Orvibo Smart Plugs are compatible too?
Unfortunately, no. Different protocol, and it doesnāt look like thereās an open API.
Tks JD for the info.
WeMo switches are now compatible in ST, cheaper than Samsung ST outlets if that helps?