Multi Purpose & Water Leak Sensor replacements

Devices & Integrations
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I would like to buy multi purpose sensors and water leak sensors, however with Samsung ditching their hardware, I haven’t been able to find alternatives that will work with my Smart Things hub v2. Does anyone have experience with available alternatives to these sensors, that they can point me towards?

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Search ebay for " Iris Utilitech Wireless Water Leak Detector" the seller seems to have an infinite supply, but will sell out for a day or so, before he adds more. They work well, after sometimes finicky pairing.

I don’t have much experience with MP sensors though.

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it is possible that the rebranded aeotec versions of the ST devices may be available soon. that could range from a few weeks to couple of months. you can sign up for the aeotec newsletter to be alerted when they release these devices.

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I’ve got 2 in use for 4 years (3+ years on ST, only 6 months on my C-7). The batteries still report 90%. ; they really do work well.

I’ve have 3 additional ones new-in-box (sealed) that are in my extras pile. PM me if you are interested.

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only one thing wrong with it. It is so QUIET that when I look at all the mute devices, it’s near the top of the list for longest quiet, so I assume it’s dead, but it always responds to water test.

But yes it is pretty great with those big batteries, literally years of runtime.

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I guess that explains the battery life, but yeah, I hadn’t even thought about that.

I was actually planning on using them for redundancy with the ADT Zigbees I’ve had for a few years. The ADTs had been losing connection, but more is better, no matter what my wife says about it.

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I have mine set to wakeup every 24 hours so it’s never quiet for long.

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that would be great - did not know that is possible. Is Zwave-Tweaker the easiest way to change whatever parameter is required?

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How do you wake it up every 24 hours?

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Its a supported Z-wave parameter (on page 11 of of the manual).

Mine are no longer connected to SmartThings, but the device handler I use on Hubitat is derived from this the one available for SmartThings, and it exposes the parameter.
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That is from this thread, but make sure you use the latest version from github and not the version in the first post.

(of course, I have no idea how this works in the new ST app)

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Thanks. I will give it a try.