Oh yay - just got an email from our sump hole. That was pretty easy.
Using a little $7 Cdn zigbee sensor. I added a little foam collar around it and sat it in the sump-pump hole. I injected a little water in to test, and the automation worked the first try.
Device is probably not intended to be immersed in water, so the foamy should keep it on the surface. The moist environment will prob result in accelerated wear and corrosion though, so may not last long.
@camerondotca It's the one in the image - the Tuya water leak sensor. Here's a link if you're looking for one…
@camerondotca It's the marriage of a few things. The #Zigbee world can be stand-alone w low-power devices, some sort of base-station hub and a controller as simple as a phone app.
The next step is what the #homeAssistant hashtag is all about – the dedicated mini computer to control ALL THE THINGS. The many Zigbee devices out there can play along if you have a hub that connects into the HomeAssistant machine.
it's a deep, deep rabbit hole, with lots of rabbits in it already. :)
Ross of Ottawa
Camerondotca