Does the water alert sensor give a local alerrt (audible, visual) when it senses water? Or are you dependent on a wireless system working when needed
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Unfortunately there is no local alarm. You must rely upon the alert e-mail/SMS.Additionally there is an anial charge of about $12 per year after the first year. It should be easy enough to write some code to generate an alarm that would work for the next four years.The advantage of paying is that the lacrosse server should be maintained.
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You are dependent on the wireless system working for this alarm. It both texts and emails you when there is a water conditon sensed. Great when you are not at home. It also tells you the current temperature of the room where you have it placed, and limits can be set for both to alert you. We use it in conjunction with the frog alarms that sense water and beep loudly when it is present. Those are only good when either you or someone else is checking your house, and will hear it though.
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James,I need to correct my answer. There is a box that shows the temp, humidity, and wet/dry on an LCD. The sensor is on a 6 foot wire. You could place the sensor in a hidden location (e.g., cabinet) and be able to see the LCD. So there is a visible indicator. In my case, my feet would be wet before I could see the LCD, so the visible display (for me) is worthless. There are devices that produce an audible alarm when water is detected (consider running leads from the test contacts on a smoke alarm), if you are there to monitor the condition.
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Unfortunately there is no local alarm. You must rely upon the alert e-mail/SMS. Additionally there is an anial charge of about $12 per year after the first year. It should be easy enough to write some code to generate an alarm that would work for the next four years. The advantage of paying is that the lacrosse server should be maintained.
1479441
No alert at the sensor. Only alert I see is via email or text or when lookint at the app to see the status.
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There is no audible alert. The small lcd screen will show a status if water is detected. You are right in that there is a dependency on the wireless connection to the base which then transmits the information via Internet connection to the La Crosse Alerts server. You can configure the server to send you an SMS or email alert if water is detected by the sensor.
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I have three of these in my vacation home to detect water leaks. It it meant for indoor use to be placed on a flat surface. It has two metal electrodes that when sitting in water completes a circuit. If you placed it outdoors It may or may not work but it would surely malfunction if left exposed for any length of time.
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This is exactly what I use it for - a utility room water alarm. By itself, it will sound an alarm. If you get the Ideal Security Base Unit (which I did), it will send a signal to this unit causing the unit to call you or any other designated phone number in case you are not home to let you know the sensor has been activated by water.
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I didn't see anything in the manual that it would provide an alert. No failure yet, so I can't say from personal experience.
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what you see is the display out of the water before it activates. once it is in the water and activates it will show the other information
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According to its manual, yes, this can be done. But I never test it. I have a water sensor that connect to it, and I can see the status of sensor from a web page, and get email if status changed(i.e., status changes from "dry" to "wet"). I do not have a controllable device connected.
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No. I had to replace my sensor awhile back because I was getting hot water through the cold water tap. You need the sensor valve for it to work correctly.
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I use one sensor and it alerts me in 2 locations on my property, Bugs running across it can set it off. Needs some light to make it work too.
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No rain sensor. It's for "future application" which may or not happen. I'd suspect that there is a "rain sensor" on the WWW that would/could work, but why bother? Turn the thing off when it rains.
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In my experience, I haven't been able to listen to real-time radio stations. The radio function works on the QQ, but as soon as I'm under water, even just freestyle swimming, the radio cuts in and out and is fuzzy. Now if you downloaded podcasts and put them on the QQ you wouldn't have a worry in the world. I think water must not be a good conductor of radio waves.
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I am currently trying to get it to work, the software loads fine but I cannot get the computer to recognize the sensor. I sent an email to the manufacturer, will let you know if I get a response.
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Hello, I'm sure you could set it up as an "automation" that would trigger the strobe alarm when water or a set temperature was reached. This device will send a text when water is detected or a set temperature is reached, either hot set point or cold set point. Hope this helps.
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The light will stay on until the batteries die or until the water is gone. The tiny light is not particularly obvious; I assume it's intended to be used as an audible indicator of water, not a visual alarm. If you're looking for a visual alarm, I would probably look for something a little more obvious.
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It should alert you on your humidifier or dehumidifier. Other than that I don't know as it was for my brother not me.
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These are battery powered remotes that both sound off when they sense water AND send a wireless signal to a dialing unit, which can indeed be in a different room. The dialing unit must be plugged into the home phone. It can then dial a series of phones (other than your home phone, since it is using that line), and give you an alert over the phone. We have it calling two cells and two work phones. Any questions: write me at Indybroughton@yahoo.com
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If the Smoke Detector is actually the First Alert then it is actually IRIS capable... and works with Smartthings quite well. Most of the devices that are capable with IRIS (without actually being an IRIS product) work with the Smartthings hub... including the Utilitech Water sensor. I've got 3 of the smoke detectors on my Smartthings hub and they all work quite well.
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There is no audible alarm. I tested it in a small puddle of water. It only communicates through the Z wave/(Nexia App or web site) and sends you an alert if you have selected the alert function.