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THIRDREALITY Zigbee Contact Sensor, Door and Window Monitor, Home Automation, Works with Home Assistant, SmartThings, Aeotec, Homey, Hubitat or Echo Devices - $11.99
THIRDREALITY Zigbee Contact Sensor, Door and Window Monitor, Home Automation, Works with Home Assistant, SmartThings, Aeotec, Homey, Hubitat or Echo Devices - $11.99
All time low for these ThirdReality zigbee sensors. These work really well with Alexa smart homes and use full batteries instead of those weird coin cell batteries but they're a little bulkier.
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All time low for these ThirdReality zigbee sensors. These work really well with Alexa smart homes and use full batteries instead of those weird coin cell batteries but they're a little bulkier.
Model: THIRDREALITY Zigbee Door and Window Sensor for Home Security, ZigBee Hub Required, Works with SmartThings, Hubitat or Echo Devices with Build-in...
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In any case, these particular sensors take two AAA's and last me will over a year and a half plus before even considering changing them. If you use them in a remote property they are awesome for that reason. Also, the magnets can be placed over 2.5" away in my experience if need to due to your trim/frame.
Why you want to get this when you can get 2 Pack Ring (zwave+) contact sensors for $15 https://a.co/d/1UFgnay
Because the devices are agnostic and don't force u into a weird proprietary ecosystem (Ring) and needing additional hardware just to have them work. Dumb.
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Because the devices are agnostic and don't force u into a weird proprietary ecosystem (Ring) and needing additional hardware just to have them work. Dumb.
They're zwave, you can pair directly with home assistant. I bought a 6 pack and just paired one as a test and it worked as expected
I bought a 6 pack of these the other day and they pair directly in home assistant.
What do you mean by home assistant? Are you saying these work directly with Google home or do they connect directly to Smartthings Hub without the need for a Ring device?
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What do you mean by home assistant? Are you saying these work directly with Google home or do they connect directly to Smartthings Hub without the need for a Ring device?
Home assistant is like Smart things but open source, and acts as a central hub that can connect devices from different manufacturers, and can connect with Google home. It's great for those who want more advanced automations, but has a bit of a learning curve. Google it.
Home assistant is like Smart things but open source, and acts as a central hub that can connect devices from different manufacturers, and can connect with Google home. It's great for those who want more advanced automations, but has a bit of a learning curve. Google it.
Thank you!
Do you know if it works with Smartthings directly without needing a Ring device?
What do you mean by home assistant? Are you saying these work directly with Google home or do they connect directly to Smartthings Hub without the need for a Ring device?
https://www.home-assistant.io/ Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first blows away anything from Google Home to SmartThings. I have been using it for 8 years now. I would never use cloud based anything for home automation.
Do you know if it works with Smartthings directly without needing a Ring device?
Think about HA as a replacement of Smartthings. The main advantage of HA is having a local (non-cloud) control, with much faster automations and independency from internet.
There is Smartthings integration in HA, in case you still want to control devices through it (for instance, if some your devices are not directly supported by HA, but you still want them, which would be a quite rare case): https://www.home-assistant.io/int...artthings/
I've had smartthings v1 hub long time ago, but got tired of Samsung being such a..holes to the IoT community (device handlers), so I've bought Raspberry PI, z-wave/zigbee usb stick and installed HA on it. Yes, there is a learning curve, but no regrets.
After that the Smartthings hub went directly to trash.
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In any case, these particular sensors take two AAA's and last me will over a year and a half plus before even considering changing them. If you use them in a remote property they are awesome for that reason. Also, the magnets can be placed over 2.5" away in my experience if need to due to your trim/frame.
Been using Z wave devices since 2017, AAA battery powered sensors are the way to go, I think I go through so many coin based (20XX) batteries, that AAA are the way to go if possible
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Do you know if it works with Smartthings directly without needing a Ring device?
Do you know if it works with Smartthings directly without needing a Ring device?
There is Smartthings integration in HA, in case you still want to control devices through it (for instance, if some your devices are not directly supported by HA, but you still want them, which would be a quite rare case):
https://www.home-assistant.io/int...artthings/
I've had smartthings v1 hub long time ago, but got tired of Samsung being such a..holes to the IoT community (device handlers), so I've bought Raspberry PI, z-wave/zigbee usb stick and installed HA on it. Yes, there is a learning curve, but no regrets.
After that the Smartthings hub went directly to trash.
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