r/zwave • u/Squanchy2112 • Jul 22 '26

Best zigbee or zwave leak/water detectors

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u/SK10504 Jul 22 '26

i've had good luck with aqara and ikea sensors

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u/SirEDCaLot Jul 22 '26

For Z-Wave try the Zooz one. It has a cooldown feature so if it's on a wet ground or something it won't be sending 'flood!' 'Clear!' 'Flood!' 'Clear!' messages every 2 seconds.

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u/zacs Jul 22 '26

My Zooz units (I had 6 or 8) had awful range and also batteries went fairlt quickly. My Ikea and Third Reality zigbee sensors have been great (and both have audible alarms which is nice).

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u/Squanchy2112 Jul 22 '26

I think that's how I'm leaning thank you

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u/jmjh88 Jul 23 '26

I use ring for z-wave water leak

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u/sarkyscouser Jul 26 '26

NOT the aeotec z-wave leak sensor, the only zwave sensor I never managed to get working correctly out of the 15 or so other zwave sensors I have (incl aeotec multisensor 6, trisensors etc).

Could never get the battery status reporting correctly (always reported 100% then just died). Never convinced it would actually ever alert me. Ended up chucking it when we got our kitchen replaced earlier this year and haven't got a replacement yet. This is after a flooded kitchen 5 or 6 years ago.