Hi @Brad_Langhorst, the discount expired at midnight but our product page was not updated until this morning (this needed to be done manually, hence the delay). Drop us a line and we’ll make this right for you!
Here is the updated reply from Sensative on painting over the Strips sensor:
Water based colors can be used to paint Strips but you should avoid paints with a high concentration of metals. We also do not recommend painting with spirit based paints or colors as it can affect the glue and coating of Strips.
Thanks again for pointing this out @JDRoberts!
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Seemless install. Received my Sensative Strip today. Pairing was easy, the standard DTH works well. I tried several Smart Apps, no issue’s what so ever. Welcome to USA Sensative!
I will also just say I have been in contact with this company awaiting the product state side, and they were very professional and always responded to my inquiries and kept me updated. Congrads on the great roll out - Smartest House - very efficient shipping - arrived well packaged as promised.
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Can’t seem to get mine paired to SmartThings; the app can’t find it. I tried the magnet proximity three times within 10 seconds but still nothing. What am I doing wrong?
EDIT: Nevermind. Got it.
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Installed mine a week ago and my wife still hasn’t noticed 
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I really wanted these but $60 is honestly to expensive even for anything with the home automation buzzword. Considering if you play your cards right you can pick up contact sensors for around $15-20 a piece, this is 3-4x more expensive.
I guess this is the price to pay to have them “invisible”.
But it’s much more advanced engineering then the $15 box sensors. At some point you have to pay for quality, if you want it. If the cheaper sensors will meet your needs, use those. 
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Define “much more advanced” engineering. For the most part it’s probably like any other contact sensor, just with the components specifically selected for and laid out in a spread out fashion, to facilitate being as thin as possible.
Not at all.
Strips are under 3 mm thick. The battery is proprietary to the company. They didn’t pick off the shelf components and then lay them out in a particular way – – they designed new hardware.
And, yes, they have a patent on it.
Sensative has one base patent granted on the home market, Sweden. The Swedish patent essentially prevents anyone from manufacturing, marketing or selling a thin, wireless, magnetic alarm sensor on the Swedish market, thereby clearly signaling that the home market is secured and that broad claims are allowed by a respected patent office.
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The corresponding applications, containing a range of features, are pending in important countries. The claims in these applications can be directed to different features depending on what the competitors implement. In their patent applications, Sensative targets not only features that are considered important for their product, but also features that potential collaborators do not have in their portfolio, thereby ensuring that the mutual benefits are also reflected in the IP.
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Do Swedish patents apply here? Place your bets on it it just being a standard coin cell battery…
International patent agreements means that the patent will be honored (backdated to the date of the first patent granted) after the appropriate applications are made, which as you can note from the article I quoted is being done.
And no, it’s not a standard coin cell battery.
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Why isn’t every other contact sensor as thin as this one then?
I agree $60 is a lot for a contact sensor, and I’m super tempted to buy some. For now I’ll just deal with the ugly little boxes that sit on my door and window frames. But why not give credit where it’s due?
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Just bought this on Amazon for my side outdoor PVC Gate after having my ST open close sensor report open and close events all night long blasting Sonos alerts outside. Wife woke me up at 430am thinking someone wasn’t breaking in lmao. If you factor in battery replacements over the next 5 years these sensors are probably same price as other door sensors.
Hope it works good!
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Mounted mine last night in my PVC fence Gate. It took me awhile to find the right spot since the magnet can’t be more than 3.5mm away from the strip, which wasn’t fun in 30 degrees 
Probably the easiest device I ever paired with Smartthings and love the fact it’s waterproof and outdoor rated.
So far so good. Does anyone know if the battery reporting is accurate?
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The only issue with battery reporting we’ve seen so far is from 2 users who got 25% being reported after just a few days. It turned out to be a software problem when Strips reports 25% despite the battery being full whenever it experiences range issues. We recommend doing a network repair and waking the sensor up manually during the process to fix this. Let us know if you have any other questions!
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Just a warning for those using these outdoors in cold weather climates…in NY, we just had a Nor’easter with 50-60mph wind gusts and the strips did not perform well and are still flopping “open” and “close” statuses even though the winds have died down. I have two of these on my PVC gates on both sides of my house. One is about 20 feet from my hub, the other one which you see from the screenshot below is a good 60 feet away and is the more problematic one. Obviously going through brick, sheet rock, etc. This is similar to issues I’ve had with the ST multi sensors as well for these gates.
I am sure this has to do with the zwave signals themselves. I do have zwave powered switches close by the more problematic one and have a relatively healthy zwave mesh network. YMMV.
Hi @Mbhforum, did you include the sensor close to the hub and moved it or did you include it at its target location? If you moved it after inclusion, it’s best to repair the network AND wake the sensor up manually so it can report its location to the hub. Or just try adding it from where it’s installed, this way SmartThings will learn its neighbors and will find the best route to reach it.
Thanks. I included it by my hub but have since done repairs. My repairs usually fail by another device. Everything works well though on my zwave network.
If you repair network without waking the Strips up manually, the repair will likely not affect it. That’s why we recommend repairing the network and waking it up or excluding and re-including from its goal location, otherwise SmartThings will not route the signal correctly.
Unfortunately that didn’t help. It could actually be my rattling from the wind. You can see from my pictures above how it’s mounted.