I loved the Samsung leak sensors and they worked great. But they are no longer sold. So I had been buying the CentraLite leak sensors which I read were the same underlying technology as the Samsungs. However these things drop off my network near constantly and refuse to rejoin without a factory reset. My Samsungs work flawlessly for years, the CentraLite on stay on my network for a couple weeks before I see red dots on my network graph. Anyone have a device that works well?
#Recommend a zigbee leak sensor
burnt marsh
river rivet
Recommendations largely depend on where you are in the world.
In the US, both the Aqara and the ThirdReality leak sensors are solid choices (I have both). The Ikea ones I had pretty terrible results with.
burnt marsh
US. Thanks. I've always heard Aqara sensors are flaky because they didn't implement Zigbee correctly or something like that. Is that not the case for HA?
river rivet
It is. The older, Zigbee1.2 devices can be picky about what they connect to. In my setup (50+ Aqara sensors), the ThirdReality plugs are perfect routers for them.
The newer zigbee3.0 sensors (if you can find them) are much better but also way more expensive.
burnt marsh
thanks. I'll probably just use the thirdreality to play it safe
river rivet
Yup. It’s a good sensor. Mine survived being in a flooded basement 4 times now. Let them dry out and they magically come back to life.
burnt marsh
ouch luckily I've never had to put my leak sensors to a real test
river rivet
The last hurricane was the major test here. Fortunately nothing died except a couple of outdoor lights.
And I did have one fish tank explode. That was fun too.
burnt marsh
crazy. I'm in the northeast so it's more about being cautious in case pipes ever freeze, not so much weather
river rivet
I’m in NC. We get all the fun weather types.
burnt marsh
ah yeah I can imagine. PA, just snow. Blizzards are probably the least destructive natural disaster
rain cipher
I have a mix of Aqara and Centralite. Both work great
worthy quarry
I have some of the tuya puck looking ones, and they work well and are zigbee spec compliant vs tuya normal stuff.
burnt marsh
Centralite has been nothing but trouble for me. They just go off line. Replacing the battery does nothing. It doesn't even show the lights when I put new batteries in