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Model: Govee WiFi Water Sensor 3 Pack, Water Leak Detector 100dB Adjustable Alarm and App Alerts, Leak and Drip Alert with Email, Wireless Detector for Home, Basement(Not Support 5G WiFi)
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Amazon has Lightning deal going on right now for the 5 pack sensors too $39.99 lightning less $5.00 clipped coupon (final price $34.99 for 5 sensors)....but only a short time left.
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It is very clever in its design. The sensors themselves are dummy sensors that only emit an audible sound and a frequency, when tripped. This allows them to maintain battery life and have very good range.
The plug-in hub (FYI, only 2.4ghz WIFI wireless is supported) is the 'brains' that talks to your home router and will send an alert to your smartphone if it picks up that frequency from the device, when tripped. That is my understanding of how it works.
If all the technology was in each sensor it would not only cost more, but it would have lesser range and drain the battery quicker.
I'm a big fan of these. I have the maximum 10 sensors in my house (max 10 per hub).
They are compatible.
To avoid the confusion, I will explain again...
The sensors themselves (in both deals) are dummy sensors that only emit an audible sound and a frequency, when tripped. This allows them to maintain battery life and have very good range.
The plug-in hub (FYI, only 2.4ghz WIFI wireless is supported) is the 'brains' that talks to your home router and will send an alert to your smartphone if it picks up that frequency from the sensor device, when tripped. That is my understanding of how it works.
If all the technology was in each sensor it would not only cost more, but it would have lesser range and drain the battery quicker.
These are compatible. I have been using them for a year. If you want WIFI, you need the HUB. ( and you can add the 5 pack to your existing hub)
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🤔 it'll work as long as the 2.4 spectrum is avail (by itself or combined). Albeit some routers' or device's implementations of it are better than others, so it may take a few tries. I have mesh wifi where both channels are combined that allows them to be temp separated.
Any idea how to do it on Google WiFi? I've come up empty handed unfortunately. The sensors are sitting around my house disconnected from the internet unfortunately.
These things saved me a few weeks ago. Hot water boiler started leaking rapidly after 18 years and it sent me a message to phone immediately. Coulda woken up to an inch of water in the basement.
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I'm not sure what the exact dB ratings are, but they do have 4 audio levels you can set them to. One of which is even silent! (You'd get phone alerts, but no screaming banshee leak detector.) Don't get me wrong, mine are set to the highest volume rivaling that big dragon on House of Dragons when it roars... But you can lower them.
Quick edit/clarification: each sensor can have its own independent volume level.
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hard to pull the trigger this thing is so specific in its use. i can't think of a time when this would have been useful in the past 10 years. i suppose if your house is prone to flooding?
Wait till you have a fluke moment of your sink leaking to ruin your entire kitchen floor. Or you can get this and be at ease.
No comment about price or anything, but these are probably one of the best investments I ever made.
Woke up in the middle of the night to a crazy noise and was able to turn off the water to the split line before it flooded the entire kitchen. Ended up causing no permanent damage other than the particle board cabinet floor piece under the sink. But the leak would have flooded the kitchen and caused significant damage had I not had one of these and had not found the leak for several more hours.
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Any idea how to do it on Google WiFi? I've come up empty handed unfortunately. The sensors are sitting around my house disconnected from the internet unfortunately.
You just need to move the hub far enough where it's in 2.4gz range and not in 5gz range ... Play around with distance but usually it's 1-2 rooms over. If you want to get fancy you can get an app on phone that can probably measure Wi-Fi signal. When you are far enough then start the pairing process and it should work with the Google Wi-Fi. After it's connected you can move it and place it wherever you want. It works because Google routers emit both but they don't let you select which one you can use. So if the device that wants to get Wi-Fi is close to the router than it'll only see the 5gz.
I have these and they let me down when I needed it. Bought then specifically to monitor ac pans and a septic pump basin. The time came when a coupling popped off the septic pump and it ran continuously soaking the sensor in the process. No alert. Sensor was tested and worked when I installed it. Battery level indicator on the app says full battery, communication with the sensor never went offline. It just didn't work when needed. I won't rely on this again.
I have these and they let me down when I needed it. Bought then specifically to monitor ac pans and a septic pump basin. The time came when a coupling popped off the septic pump and it ran continuously soaking the sensor in the process. No alert. Sensor was tested and worked when I installed it. Battery level indicator on the app says full battery, communication with the sensor never went offline. It just didn't work when needed. I won't rely on this again.
Were you able to test the sensor after the event to see if it still worked? I've put an old school frog sensor that just audible beeps when the contact is complete and has saved me with further damage.
I bought 8 pack of Xiaomi sensors but couldn't get them to work and have them as paperweight (anyone want to buy lol).....but its well worth the What If event insurance.
Bought this from the govee site last week. Discouraged that the sensors cannot be monitored from a web portal. You must be at home within Bluetooth range of the receiver.
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search govee water leak detectors 5 pack Link [amazon.com]
The plug-in hub (FYI, only 2.4ghz WIFI wireless is supported) is the 'brains' that talks to your home router and will send an alert to your smartphone if it picks up that frequency from the device, when tripped. That is my understanding of how it works.
If all the technology was in each sensor it would not only cost more, but it would have lesser range and drain the battery quicker.
I'm a big fan of these. I have the maximum 10 sensors in my house (max 10 per hub).
To avoid the confusion, I will explain again...
The sensors themselves (in both deals) are dummy sensors that only emit an audible sound and a frequency, when tripped. This allows them to maintain battery life and have very good range.
The plug-in hub (FYI, only 2.4ghz WIFI wireless is supported) is the 'brains' that talks to your home router and will send an alert to your smartphone if it picks up that frequency from the sensor device, when tripped. That is my understanding of how it works.
If all the technology was in each sensor it would not only cost more, but it would have lesser range and drain the battery quicker.
These are compatible. I have been using them for a year. If you want WIFI, you need the HUB. ( and you can add the 5 pack to your existing hub)
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Quick edit/clarification: each sensor can have its own independent volume level.
Woke up in the middle of the night to a crazy noise and was able to turn off the water to the split line before it flooded the entire kitchen. Ended up causing no permanent damage other than the particle board cabinet floor piece under the sink. But the leak would have flooded the kitchen and caused significant damage had I not had one of these and had not found the leak for several more hours.
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Were you able to test the sensor after the event to see if it still worked? I've put an old school frog sensor that just audible beeps when the contact is complete and has saved me with further damage.
I bought 8 pack of Xiaomi sensors but couldn't get them to work and have them as paperweight (anyone want to buy lol).....but its well worth the What If event insurance.
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