Has anyone been able to get the Aeotec Water Sensor 7 Pro to work with the Vera Plus? I pair it. I see a Temperature sensor that appears to show the correct temperature and a humidity sensor that also appears to be accurate. The actual water sensor has an On/Off switch that doesn’t appear to work. The unit always shows in the Off stage. I have the device notification set to notify me when it detects water. The Vera sees it and sends me a notification properly when it detects water.
Here is my problem. I want it to set off a siren when it detects water. I set up a Scene but the scene’s only option is to detect when the Device is On or Off. I tried detecting both and am not able to trigger it. Has anyone been able to get this to work?
On a side note,
I also appear to have another temperature sensor that showed up that isn’t showing the actual temperature. I don’t remember seeing it before. This may be user error on my part. I may try deleting some devices and see if any of those have a temperature sensor built in. Did anyone else have two temperature sensors show up in case one is actually a water sensor mislabeled.
I dont bother using Scenes on the Vera Plus. Instead I am using the Reactor (Reactor) module by @rigpapa to trigger actions when using sensors. I have a Dome water valve controllable via Zwave and this has an action to auto-close when an Aeotec Water Sensor trips. It worked like the 2nd day I had it installed, when a ‘leak’ was detected due to high humidity in my laundry room (since the air out take pipe had become loose) - turned off the water valve. Hope this helps to steer you done the right route…
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I cannot help you. I am using the Fibaro FGFS-101 Gen5 Flood sensors. And these seem to work fine in that they detect water and send a message in a Vera scene to shut off my Fortrezz Water valve. They also have temperature sensor and tamper sensors, and I can use the temperature sensors to notify me when the temperature where they are located gets above or below a certain temperature. I know this doesn’t help you too much but does indicate that a Vera scene can handle input from a flood sensor and use it to carry out another function (sound a siren or shut off the water).
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Thank you. I was hoping it was something really simple but using Reactor sounds pretty cool.
Thank you for the suggestion. The Fibaro looks pretty nice. I ignorantly assumes that since I had the Aeotec siren working, this would be a good fit.
I have 8 of the Fibaro flood sensors included in my Vera Plus controlled system. They have all been tested with water and they do work in a scene to shut off my Fortrezz z wave water valve. Obviously, there are other water valves on the market (Ezlo now sells one, despite the fact that they purchased Fortrezz). I was worried when I purchased the battery-operated flood sensors that they would run through batteries quickly but that hasn’t been the case. The batteries have continued to work for more than a year. This was a concern since this is in a winter home in AZ (though I turn off the water when we are out of town). At any rate, I hope this helps solve your problem.
Have you seen the following note from Aeotec on the setup required?
https://help.aeotec.com/support/solutions/articles/6000236948-setup-water-sensor-7-with-vera
Let me know how it works out, if you’ve already got the device, I’m looking for a new flood sensor with lead, and this looks ideal!
Thanks
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I never thought to look on Aeotec’s web site. Duh. Thanks. I should have known better especially since I went to their site when I hooked up the Siren to the Vera. This worked great. I don’t care what some of the forums say, I really love Vera and the flexibility to do anything; even when the product isn’t fully supported. The instructions were perfect and it worked great.
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