Our garage flooded last night (not the first time) and so I want to install some water sensors in the garage and basement. There’s dumb ones that look similar to a smoke detector, but all they do is make noise, which I’m willing to bet I won’t hear since I can barely hear the smoke detector in the kitchen when I’m upstairs. thats why I want a smart system so it rings an alarm on my phone as well, though if there was something with like a repeater I could install upstairs that would work too. thanks all

    • Mike@lemmy.ca
      6·
      9 months ago

      We’ve done this with Home Assistant (on a raspberry pi), and Zwave / ZigBee. Its been working great for years. Also allows for really customizable alerts for different things - and has been super stable.

      Not very difficult to setup either - the interface is pretty polished these days!

    • strawberry@kbin.runOP
      2·
      9 months ago

      dont wanna do any config. this is something I’m willing to ignore privacy for, just would be nice if I didn’t have to

      • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        I get where you’re coming from, but given the cost of equipment these days, it’s important to consider whether or not the zero-config big box brand stuff will be around long enough to be worth the cost. While it’s a PITA to spend your efforts setting this all up, doing it yourself using open protocols can be worth it in the long run. And 9 out of 10 times, when you do it yourself, you can just leave it alone and forget about it.

        Edit: there is a good write-up between zigbee and matter, and for ease of use it looks like matter would be better for your use cases.