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

Unit works good, but Smartthings loaded a driver that just didn't work. D/L a better third party driver, now works as expected, but battery way off.

I bought this sensor to work on our front porch. The package came with two sticky slips for installation. That will work for indoor where the installation location is smooth, but didn't work for our case. I had to get a small flat wood piece, install the wood piece and stick the sensor on the wood. Minor problem.The problem is the following strange behavior. The sensor showed 20% battery after installation. Then after a week, it showed 1%, and then flipped between 20% and 1% every day. It also reported temperature far off. After ten days, it stayed at 1% reporting, and then stopped working.I thought that I received a dude, and tried to exchange it. The replacement sensor behaviors the same. It started 67% battery reporting, then reports 33%, 1%. In the past several days, it reports battery between 1% and 33%. Again the temperature reporting is 5% off (I have another sensor installed near by).The sensor itself works. But I am not sure what to do with the battery issue. If the battery is bad, then I can buy a new battery. But It is not a battery issue.Update (1/28/2019): I raised my rating from 1 star to 3 star for the following reason. First, pairing is easy. It has long range. My Samsung smart hub is about 60 feet away from this sensor. It still works ok. The main thing, as I complained is battery. I am on my second one, which is a replacement. The reported battery of the sensor bounced discretely among 67%, 33%, and 1%. It has been on 33% for three days. The behavior is very similar to the first one which I returned. Is it battery issue, or just reporting incorrect battery level? The product description says 2-year battery life.

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.

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.

The sensor works well and was easy to pair. I paired it through ConBee 2 attached to RPi 4 using Home Assistant. I gave it 4 stars but it really should be 3 and a half. The manufacturer's claimed 2year battery life is GREATLY exaugurated. I use it on my garage door and after normal use the battery is down to 77% after less then one week. At that rate, the battery wont last one month. The temperature sensor is off by about 2 degrees. I bought it because it was one of few sensors available that had screw mounted sensor and magnet.