by Ezlo Water Sensor - Monitors Your Whole Home for Leaks - Detects Water Leaks in a Kitchen, Bathroom, Basement or Laundry Room - Zigbee

Edit 11/13/18The first one I bought walked off. I think my nephew picked it up and placed it somewhere. Oh well. It wasn't working at the time because it loves to disconnect from the Wink 2 hub whenever it feels like it. So I bought another and had trouble pairing it (about an hour). Finally it paired and now this water sensor disconnects at random. No reason. I put a new battery in it for good measure. It ran for a few days the disconnected again. I'm going to scrap this sensor and try another brand. Good luck.I used this sensor in my basement by the main drain for the HVAC, water conditioning, water softener, water heater area. If anything in that room starts to leak it will go to the main drain in that area. I placed it nearby the drain. We have a well and it has a Goulds Aquavar pump controller. The pump controller has a jumper wire for enabling the pump to run. If the jumper wire is not there, the pump does not run.So I paired this leak sensor with the Wink 2 hub (easy). Then I paired a z-wave relay switch with the Wink 2. Then I created a robot in the Wink 2 so that if this water sensor detects water it will then tell the relay to break contact. Breaking contact in the relay then shuts down the well controller and, in turn, the well. The robot also sends me a notification that the well has been shut down.The setup works flawlessly. I have had no problems with the Centralite Water sensor at all. It's also nice because it tells you the temperature. It would be easy to setup another Wink 2 robot to shut down the well pump if the temperature dropped to a certain degree. I have another robot for my Honeywell thermostat that does this, so I didn't do it with this sensor.I plan on purchasing more for other possible wet locations upstairs by the kitchen sink/dishwasher area and by the washer and dryer area. It's easy to justify the cost of these sensors and a Wink 2 hub when you figure out what the repairs would cost from a water leak going undetected for hours or days on end.

When these units are operational, they are great. The problem is that they keep going offline. I have tried rebooting the hub multiple times. The only thing that works is pulling the battery and reinserting. My Smartthings app indicates new firmware is available, however, I cannot seem to get it to install through the hub. After I initiate an update, the firmware still reports the same version - it appears the update is never accepted. These were pretty flawless for a while, now I have nothing but trouble with them. I have about 15 of these sensors in all, and they are all becoming very intermittent. I have tried a different mfg who offers a similar temp/humidity sensor and they are working fine. I have over 47 devices on my hub: switches, flood sensors, temp/humidity, etc... These sensors are the only ones that are giving me a hard time.

As long as you have Amazon products, this product will fit perfectly in your new smart home. The requirements are simple; Echo Plus or Echo Show Generation 2. Thats it. When initially opening the box and reading the instructions I was skeptical... you “pull out a battery tab and BOOM connected”... welp.. I pulled the tab.. clicked the button on the side till it was blinking blue and low and behold the indicator beeps green for connected. I asked Alexa to discover devices and there it was. No 3rd party app... no $100 hubs... just the most important piece, the echo app. Now to answer a few questions..Can this work with Phillips Hue?A: Yes! But through the Alexa app. It connects to ANY smart bulb, smart plug, or device you can think of using routines.Is this device practical?A: Absolutely. I have been working in smart home since the echo was launched.. this product couldn’t be easier to use. So far I’m in love with it but we will see how long it will last.Do you need a hub to make this work?A: As long as you’re connecting it to a zigbee hub this will connect and work properly. I would highly recommend saving your money and using it towards an Amazon Echo Plus or Echo Show 2. If you are a Google user I would switch over if you are looking for simplicity and completeness.Can this act as a security motion sensor?A: Yeah, the Routines in the Alexa app really open up the different possibilities necessary to turn lights on to even triggering music (or sirens lol) to play when motion is detected. It integrates very well with Amazon Guard and using Routines you can even have it notify you when the motion occurs in real time.Can this give me temperature readings?A: YES! This is an added bonus with this product that I love. Not only that, but you can create routines at certain temperatures in a room! Amazon really thought of everything, I’m truly surprised I just found out about these but I just bought 2 more for my house. Expect me to buy a bunch more in the future to compliment my Nest Thermostat.

It's a nice device, but to be honest it literally CONSUMES the 3 volt lithium batteries. As in it lasts for a few months, then drops off and when I look at the battery levels I see it start at 100% then after a month it drops to 60% then a bit lower, then bounces around, then drops off line.The device is in the same room as a Third Reality Zigbee plug so it's not a distance/energy issue. I'd recommend going with the TZ3000 series devices as they seem to go for a long time on a pair of aaa batteries with no issues.So yeah, not recommended. I see a lot of people complaining that they drop offline, I'd bet if they checked the voltage on the battery they would see <1 volt (as I did on mine).Oh well.