for those wondering, this irrigation smart valve works with the generic Smartthings Zigbee driver
Yup, sure does. I have two of them working great with ST.
If no water flow is detected after a certain amount of time, the valve closes automatically. Obviously ST’s driver doesn’t take all the capabilities into account, but the basics are there.
Hi, which driver do you use?
I recently bought an SWV-ZFE (Hydro One), and the only controller that works with it is the Generic Zigbee Switch. I can use it to switch the valve on and off, but that’s about all it can do. It doesn’t even report the battery level.
I tried the Mariano drivers Edge-Drivers-Beta/zigbee-valve-st-mc/fingerprints.yml at main · Mariano-Github/Edge-Drivers-Beta · GitHub but it doesn’t recognize the device ![]()
Hi @Pajacyk0v
You are right, only ST’s generic zigbee switch will be found unless you have a custom Edge Driver, like Mariano’s AND only if the fingerprint is in that driver. His driver does have the model that I have (SWV):
Is the model you have (SWV-ZFE) showing up in the advanced ST web app as “SWV-ZFE”? Please let me know, and if it is I can add that to my version of Mariano’s driver that I’m using.
On a separate note, I’m hoping that someone, someday, decides to create a more fully functional Edge drive for this device to support more capabilities, like the ones listed below:
Thanks @Pajacyk0v, that model isn’t in any of the edge drivers at the moment. I went ahead and updated my version of Mariano’s driver to add your model to the fingerprint. You can find and install the driver from my channel linked below. Please try it out and let me know if something doesn’t work when installing it.
See here:
Hi, I can report the SWV-ZFE is now recognized by Mariano’s driver! The device now shows as a water valve and the battery level is displayed. There are no further settings available yet though.
What I found out is that I can force the device into proximity (BLE) mode by powering off my SmartThings Hub to configure or update it via the eWeLink app.
@Andreas_Roedl 's driver is working as well, and showing even more options already - so I would definitely give this driver a go! ![]()
Thanks to Andreas_Roedl for the driver. Please note I am not a very experienced Smartthings user so please excuse my potentially naive comments. Clearly this is a device with lots of variables, and while the driver exposes them for screen reading, they mostly seem to be unavailable for use in functions. One issue I found is that my valve switches itself off after 10 minutes. I solved this by a) using a virtual device that I turn on and off when I want the valve on (this seems to have the added benefit of more sophisticated time setting than simply time setting the valve on) and b) using three functions to mirror this virtual device; one to turn the valve on, one to turn the valve off and one to turn the valve back on if it is internally turned off while the virtual device is still (timed) on. It seems to work well.







