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Sinbad said:
I need a water level alarm. Any recommendations out there?
The float valve on my Jojo has gotten stuck a couple of times resulting in it overflowing. Want to be alerted...
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If you want to invest in the Xiaomi / Aqara ecosystem and home assistant -- https://www.gearbest.com/home-smart-improvements/pp_668897.html?wid=1433363 is currently on special at R126. It's not a level detection, rather, it will sense that water is present. So you could use multiples at different levels I guess.

But there are also guys who take existing "of/off" or binary switches and modify them for water detectors. I'd take a guess that you can do something with a Sonoff if you want to tinker.
 
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Nevar said:
Might be easyier to wire the son off to a spare remote locked inside the gate motor ?
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Then you might as well do that inside your garage or house. No need for it to be near the gate then.

You'll still need a Sonoff SV + Tasmota or the inching one -- can't keep the remote button pushed for longer than a second or so.
 
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ebendl said:
If you want to invest in the Xiaomi / Aqara ecosystem and home assistant -- https://www.gearbest.com/home-smart-improvements/pp_668897.html?wid=1433363 is currently on special at R126. It's not a level detection, rather, it will sense that water is present. So you could use multiples at different levels I guess.

But there are also guys who take existing "of/off" or binary switches and modify them for water detectors. I'd take a guess that you can do something with a Sonoff if you want to tinker.
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What investment is needed? I have home assistant already. Can it talk natively to the sensor?
 
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zeridine said:
Does anyone have any issues setting up sonoff B1 bulbs? I have 3 that I cant get to work. I've tried via android, iOS, and in their respective AP compatibility modes as well. No success. I can get the bulbs to seemingly go into pairing mode and compatilbility mode (3x 2s on and off or 6x 2s on and off) but no actual connection to the bulbs can be made. Am I missing something basic? I have 4 other slamphers that I setup easily, but the bulbs are just not connecting. It cant be 3 dud bulbs.
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I though that i was having a problem with one of mine. Turns out the brightness was set at about 5% so it seemed unresponsive.
 
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OH MY ****.

I decided to redo my home-assistant installation. Copied all my config to a folder called backup - then forgot to copy the folder of the SD Card before reinstalling.

Lost my dashboards - lost my custom panel code - lost my custom motion detection logic. @$@#$# idiot.
 
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xrapidx said:
OH MY ****.

I decided to redo my home-assistant installation. Copied all my config to a folder called backup - then forgot to copy the folder of the SD Card before reinstalling.

Lost my dashboards - lost my custom panel code - lost my custom motion detection logic. @$@#$# idiot.
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Dude...
 
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Worst is - I was busy setting up auto-backup on the weekend and decided to only do it on the new install. :(
 
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Wow, bad luck man. Sorry to hear!


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Worst is - I was busy setting up auto-backup on the weekend and decided to only do it on the new install. :(
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//Makes mental note to investigate and set this up tonight!!
 
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Sinbad said:
What investment is needed? I have home assistant already. Can it talk natively to the sensor?
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You'd have to get their Gateway, typically around R350 on Gearbest. Home Assistant talks to the Gateway and the Gateway talks to the sensors.

https://www.home-assistant.io/components/xiaomi_aqara/

You'll probably be able to find something more dedicated to water level sensing -- this is more oriented to "water presence" (i.e. your washing machine overflows and covers your kitchen in water).
 
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Sinbad said:
So I found these, ordered 2
https://www.ebay.com/itm/5-24VDC-Wa...317450?hash=item4d71d5c78a:g:gwUAAOSwcNxa0~7j

Now I need a wifi 8266 board, and will make my own sensors according to http://www.instructables.com/id/ESP8266-Water-Leak-Detector-MQTT-Homie modified not to use homie, just mqtt :D

So smartkit dudes - what usb powered wifi 8266 dev boards do you have?
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Only thing we have in stock: http://www.smartkit.co.za/product/sonoff-dev/

EDIT: doesn't have a water leakage brick though - unless you're testing soil moisture!
 
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phaktza said:
We've been umming and ahhing about Wemos and NodeMcu boards because they can run Tasmota.

Question is how many we'd sell, are there enough DIYers in South Africa?
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I think it's more about, can you compete with that pricing, if people are willing to accept the risk posed by the post office...

Each board costs less that it costs you to courier one package to me... INCLUDING its shipping.
 
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Sinbad said:
I think it's more about, can you compete with that pricing, if people are willing to accept the risk posed by the post office...

Each board costs less that it costs you to courier one package to me... INCLUDING its shipping.
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Yes, well 30 days (hopefully) - it'd cost less for me to send by SAPO, and it would be quicker! But there is no way I would risk it.
 
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phaktza said:
Yes, well 30 days (hopefully) - it'd cost less for me to send by SAPO, and it would be quicker! But there is no way I would risk it.
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For higher value goods, for sure, and for urgency, absolutely... but for me to tinker, a potential loss of R40 per board is palatable :)
 
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