I need to be alerted when the softener salt level is low. My plan is to set a moisture sensor on top of the salt after I fill the softener. When I refill the salt the next time, I take out the sensor, pour the salt and place the sensor back on top of the salt. If I don’t get to it in time, the senso…

@beckwith ooohhhh thats clever. You should for sure caulk the screw holes. Not sure how the moisture sensor would handle that constant salt though.

Good idea. I don’t have a softener, so I’m speculating. Is the salt on which you’ll rest the sensor completely dry? It seems to me that salt pulls moisture out of the air in sufficiently wet environments, so I’m wondering if the salt will always be a bit wet, enough to trigger the alarm. In that…

It worked, sort of… I got the push notification today. However, after I retrieved the sensor an hour later, it was water logged. Seems the water came right through the seams. It wouldn’t take much for Fortrezz to design it with proper seals but for me to do it now is impractical. I opened it up, r…

Unless someone has come up with a better idea. I recently purchased the Wireless Tag hub and a few sensors. I’m thinking of getting one of these http://wirelesstags.myshopify.com/products/long-range-water-moisture-sensor to monitor my salt level. I figure dip it in or spray it with one of the many a…

Hmm… my parents had one of those type water softeners. Could you build a piston float type sensor, using a door open/ closed switch? Drill a small hole in the top of the salt compartment (the old one my parents had was thick plastic). Put a rod through – flat plate or float on the bottom, and ma…

Multi sensor and a paint stirrer.

That’s a very ingenious solution! Thank you for sharing.

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Araforn (Paul Barden) December 13, 2018, 8:23pm 10

Using this for a water softener. Works great. Foxx Project Water Sensor on Amazon

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