Xiaomi Smart Home Aqara Water Sensor - WHITE $10.99 USD ($14.23 AUD) @ GearBest

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  wikiwiki on 29/12/2017 - 02:27

  in what scenario would someone need this for?

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    SickDmith on 29/12/2017 - 02:31

    I can guess two
    1. Flood water detection in the basement
    2. Water pipe leak detection in the kitchen cabinet

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    SpeedRunnerLink on 29/12/2017 - 02:31

    +2

    If someone is allergic to water I assume

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    NigelTufnel on 29/12/2017 - 07:08

    Put in on the washing line. Alert you when it starts raining?

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    Scab on 29/12/2017 - 07:21

    Laundry, mine doesn't have a floor drain and rain also blows in under the door sometimes.

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    asa79 on 29/12/2017 - 11:05

    If your washing machine bursts a pipe. If your vanity bursts a pipe

    You will be alerted before you come home to a flooded house

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      cornbeef on 29/12/2017 - 11:22

      +3

      My vanity burst its pipes years ago and now the world is so dry.

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  t3chshopper on 29/12/2017 - 02:33

  Thanks OP. I'll add this in to Home Assistant and set up an alert for my dish washer.

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  emm2600x on 29/12/2017 - 02:46

  This is decent coupon price - have gotten two for a little more in the past.

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  kiwijunglist on 29/12/2017 - 03:01

  +5

  Use it in the shower to tell when the shower is on.

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  xev on 29/12/2017 - 03:04

  +2

  Use this link and get it for US$9.99 AU$13.29 http://e3ai.gearbest.com/r/link/1c80aII7de46f082II2886II87f2…

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  xev on 29/12/2017 - 03:07

  I have this sitting in my cart on Gearbest trying to think of a reason why I need it.

  Any reason…

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    TopsyKretts on 29/12/2017 - 03:54

    +4

    it appeared on ozbargain with positive votes, thats enough reason.

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      xev on 29/12/2017 - 04:02

      +1

      You think it could be used to detect the tears of gratitude?

      The best reason I can think of to buy it right now is to see if it works.

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    YT13 on 29/12/2017 - 04:05

    +1

    so you can run out to the clothes line to grab the dry washing, put the car/motorbike in the garage or call yourself Rainbow and frolic like a Nimbin hippie.

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    bbtlovebbt on 29/12/2017 - 11:38

    If you don't want to receive an expensive bill for flooding, you better get one just for in case.

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  greenie4242 on 29/12/2017 - 04:03

  The Chinglish is strong with this one.
  The product description is meaningless. I know it's "small and exquisite" but don't know what it does.

  Does this product warn when something that's supposed to be wet becomes dry, or when something that's supposed to be dry becomes wet, or both? Can it monitor water level or only detect presence/absence of water? Does it only provide a single notification when something changes, or is it a persistent notification? Does it signal when the battery level gets low, or does it just die without warning?

  A team of very talented people probably spent months developing this product, but people won't buy it because nobody spent five minutes asking a competent English speaker to help write the description. Pity. Quite sure I'd buy hundreds more products every year if the descriptions weren't so terrible.

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    xev on 29/12/2017 - 04:09

    it just detects the presence of water, for example, put it under your washing machine and if your washing machine starts leaking, and the water wets the sensor it sends you a notification.

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    emm2600x on 29/12/2017 - 04:50

    +1

    The alarm threshold condition is a fixed water level of 0.5mm - it reports both state changes like other binary sensors. I don't use the xiaomi app but battery level is visible from home assistant.

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      Bargaphile on 29/12/2017 - 13:33

      What device do you run home assistant on? I was thinking of setting up a Pi based server with it

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        emm2600x on 29/12/2017 - 23:34

        +1

        Started off with a first gen pi which did run it but started to get maxed out after adding a few dozen sensors/extra components so i just upgraded to a pi3. That handles everything a lot better, restarts so much faster for testing new configs/etc as well. The complexity is a headache at times but can't beat it for the price :)

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    eug on 29/12/2017 - 08:28

    +3

    A team of very talented people probably spent months developing this product, but people won't buy it because nobody spent five minutes asking a competent English speaker to help write the description.

    I'm guessing their target market is the 1.3 billion people who don't need English descriptions. They don't officially sell it overseas after all.

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      asa79 on 29/12/2017 - 11:07

      Home Assistant doesn't care about the language of the app

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  sakinah on 29/12/2017 - 08:56

  +2

  I just had my hot water pipe burst in my apartment flooding the whole apartment while I wasn’t home
  This would of been useful then. Now I’m so worried I turn off the water before I leave.
  This device will be so useful for me

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    pax on 29/12/2017 - 09:02

    It only tells you that your pipes burst, but doesn't stop it, so if you are away from home for a considerable amount of time, I would turn your pipes off anyway.

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      eug on 29/12/2017 - 09:06

      +2

      If he was at work and the pipes burst, if he knew about it he could rush home to turn the water off. 30 minutes of water would be much better than 8 hours of water.

      I have a friend whose flexi hose under the sink upstairs burst while he was away. It flooded the whole room upstairs, dripped through the wooden floor onto the home office below, soaked the plasterboard ceiling, which then collapsed into the room. Those flexi hoses need to be replaced every few years!

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      sakinah on 29/12/2017 - 11:54

      We just stayed one night at my parents house. If I knew that the water was leaking I could of easily told my neighbour to go in and stop it. My front door has electronic number keypad.

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    asa79 on 29/12/2017 - 11:08

    This might be better for you https://www.aquatrip.com.au/leak-detection-systems

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  sakinah on 29/12/2017 - 08:58

  Where do I get the smart gateway from
  You link says discontinued

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    SickDmith on 29/12/2017 - 23:26

    Updated version is here (no idea what was changed)
    https://www.gearbest.com/living-appliances/pp_344667.html