Several months ago I got some of the PEQ water sensors. Well last weekend I found out that they work perfectly. I was away from home at work when I got a notification that the water heater was leaking. I was able to use my device that turns off the water and then examine when I got home. Sure enough it was leaking a lot of water. Luckily, I have a pan with a drain so there was no damage, but by being alerted I was able to turn off the water and save a lot of water from going down the drain. I replaced my heater the next day and I’m back in business.
BTW I highly recommend the push on water line connectors. No more soldering. Just a quick press and they fit tight. They made the job so simple the new water heater would have require buying new copper lines which are expensive. These were just $11 each and worked flawlessly.
How is your battery life with those PE Q sensors? I haven’t bought a water sensor yet but I’ve been meaning to. I was thinking about getting the fibaro one.
If you’ve had success with the PE Q sensor, and you had a real life situation where it worked, I may just go with those. Do they report out temperature?
Battery Life is great and they do report temp. ANd yes they apir and work just fine with ST, I have a few around the house.
On battery Life my lowest one is 66% and I can’t even tell you how long I’ve had it but got to be creeping up on a year. The other 2 are 88% and at least 6 months old.
There are several items that are not on that list that work perfectly fine. As for these PEQ leak sensors, I have 8 of them but unlike @celblazer SmartThings never reports a battery life less than 100%. A custom devicetype appears to be needed to fix this problem. I’m sure they are not all still at 100% after 3 months.
I have 14+ PEQ water sensors. They are my favorite water sensor.
The battery life is great. Many of mine reported 100% for so long that I found it suspect like some of you have said. But recently some are reporting in the 80s. So the battery reporting is working for me.
It sounds like the PEQ is better than the SmartThings sensor. I purchased a ST last Monday. By Friday it was down to 77%. It has remained there for six days. My closest device - about five feet away, a multipurpose sensor has been at 88% for a long time. By Friday that device went down to 66%.
The ST water sensor is probably my furthest device. Down a floor and through a door, but still less than 25’ away from the hub. Are these drains common at further distances?
