Leaksmart Water Sensor

[whoismoses (Eric)]

All - Thanks to @krlaframboise for point out my issue, I’ve got this DH working now that it starts communicating right away without any weird post configuration steps. I should be posting the new code to github tomorrow once I clean up a few things.

[whoismoses (Eric)]

Ok everyone, I’ve posted the new code. It works solid for me. It no longer requires post configuration steps to get it working. You should see temperature and battery data immediately. I tested the pairing process on 4 devices all paired fine except for 1 which I had to reset (as it wouldn’t stop beeping and the logs showed null data coming back) and start over. Once I did that it worked fine. If you guys want to test this out and give me feedback it if works for you.

ericvitale/ST-leakSmart-Sensor/blob/master/README.md

[kenw123 (Ken)]

Eric, thank you, my sensor that had reported battery & temp but not water is working after removing and re-adding as a device with the new code. Added two more new sensors just fine.

[jksearles (James)]

Great job @whoismoses . It’s working great. Thanks for all your hard work.

[whoismoses (Eric)]

Now that this is working, I created an official thread…

[RELEASE] leakSMART Water Sensor

This device type is for the leakSMART Water Sensor. We’ve finally worked out the bugs and it is ready for release. This device can be a bit “interesting” to get it to begin the pairing process or reset if needed. Keep in mind that it is a ZigBee device so don’t bother trying to exclude it if you have trouble. A few of us picked up a bunch of these on clearance at Home Depot for $18 each. Also, if interested @krlaframboise wrote a device type for the leakSmart valve. Installation via GitHub Integration Open SmartThings IDE in your web browser and log into your account. Click on the “My Device Types” section in the navigation bar. Click on “Settings”. Click “Add New Repository”. Enter “ericvitale” as the namespace. Enter “ST-leakSmart-Sensor” as the repository. Hit “Save”. Select “Update …

[whoismoses (Eric)]

All, it seems that out mixed results could be due to firmware versions. I have version 21.

@scpickle

I believe he said that Version 1F had the battery problem, 21 had sleep the problem, and that 26 was good.

In this post I am talking about pooling resources to share a Wink hub to update them…

[RELEASE] leakSMART Water Sensor

Anyone have interest in agreeing to buy and pass for a slightly lesser amount a wink hub? If we get 6 people other than me, the average cost per person will be $15 and the last person pays $18 and they can choose to keep it or keep passing it around the forum $10 + shipping… [image] Everyone will need paypal… I am willing to take the risk as I think most of us can be trusted. I can start a thread called “Get Winked” where we coordinate this activity if you guys are really interested… @phil42, @scpickle, @genghis.tron, @ady624, @Augustin, @twspencer, @dhelm2, @friedpope, @John_Luikart, @Jnox

[h_smith]

I have a Wink hub and looking to add a smartthings hub. Do you know if there is any problem with co-existence? Thanks.

[whoismoses (Eric)]

I don’t think there will be an issue. I think there are several people who have multiple hubs (different brands). I’m not sure this will apply but others have rooted their wink hub.

[BETA RELEASE] Lutron support in SmartThings using custom Wink Hub software - looking for testers / the adventurous

Hi folks! The skinny: I have Lutron devices connecting to SmartThings over a rooted Wink Hub, and I’m looking for people to help test this out. There are a few jagged edges, but most of the functionality is solid (see known issues below) - still, expect some finagling with the hub during initial setup. Currently, this is working with Pico remote controls, which can be used as both minimotes and virtual dimmers (e.g. for lighting control), as well as Caseta in-wall and plug-in dimmers. Other Clear Connect devices should be easy to support, if you’re in the mood to either write them or make hardware donations The newest version supports pairing Pico remotes directly to Caseta dimmers through the built-in hardware pairing list of the remotes as well as pairing through the hu…

[h_smith]

Thanks for the info. I have heard of the rooting of the Wink hub over at hackaday but I was not sure if there was any real advantage to doing so. Do you know why they are rooting the hubs? Is there a similar root process for smartthings? I am a newbie in the hubs but not in embedded software development. Thanks.

[h_smith]

An observation and question… I have a couple of these Leaksmart sensors, one is reporting a low-battery condition with decent batteries. I measured the aaa batteries at 1.44V each. It would seem sufficient. One sensor reports 100%, the other 0% (low-battery). I am suspecting a firmware issue or bad hardware component. I also grabbed a couple at the HD for $17 per.

I was thinking about buying several more just as temperature monitors. There is a guy selling them in bulk on eBay for $27 per. I suppose that is not a bad deal if you can’t find them on clearance at HD. Does anyone know of a better source for smart devices (wink or smartthings)?

One use case I would like to try is using them for freezer alarms. I dropped one in a freezer temporarily and it continued to report. I am concerned that the battery life may be reduced at freezing temps. Does anyone have an opinion as to whether they are suitable for freezer alarms?

[whoismoses (Eric)]

There are firmware issues the can cause them to draw at different rates. Your wink should update them. No idea if they will work as Freezer alarms.

If you watch you can get them on Amazon for $27-$33 depending on the day. I’d much rather deal with Amazon and pay a couple more dollars.

[quantiletree (Michael Barnathan)]

In terms of interference, Wink and SmartThings are able to coexist in the same household. I have no idea if they were degrading my signal quality or anything, but both zwave and zigbee networks worked and neither range nor latency seemed to suffer. That said, they won’t interoperate with one another (e.g. sharing devices) unless you want to go through a significant amount of effort (writing smartapps and device types, rooting Wink, adding API endpoints, etc.) to make them play nicely. I wrote SmartWink because there was no other way to get my Lutron devices working seamlessly on SmartThings - I had lost hope that ST would add it natively when the v2 hub came out without Lutron support, Lutron’s own bridge only functioned (way too poorly for light switches) through IFTTT, and Wink/Quirky didn’t seem likely to prioritize integrating with a competitor given that they were on the brink of bankruptcy at the time. I wish there were easier ways.

You could perhaps extend SmartWink to support the leaksmart sensor if you’re looking for native smartthings support of something that only Wink has the hardware for - some of the infrastructure there should be reusable for non-Lutron devices.