Leak detected and siren woke the dead!

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Go to Wyze.com and click on Security then Home Monitoring and Automation:


Then Get the Wyze Sense Hub that all the sensors will connect to, and which has a battery backup in it and a speaker to trigger a siren or the HMS Hazard Remediation alert (leaks, freeze detection alert beeps):

and some Leak Sensors and Probes to put anywhere there are water pipe connections or drains:

And some Climate sensors (Temperature/Humidity) to put around water pipes to alert you to freezing risks:

Contact sensors for Doors/Windows to alert you to a break-in, trigger an alarm, possibly call Law enforcement if needed (or you can leave it in test mode to do self-monitoring to avoid having police called unless you specifically call and ask them to come yourself).

Motion sensors - Though I mostly use these for automations with lighting, etc, I also use them for security while I’m out of town:

As for the subscription, I personally recommend paying for the yearly (annual) HMS subscription with the hub. Doing so gets you the hub for free and it’s cheaper to pay for it yearly than monthly. But some people like Monthly, or they don’t want the security subscription at all, so they’ll just try the monthly one and cancel it. You can still do a lot without the subscription, but honestly it’s worth it for all the extra features, and most Home Insurance companies will actually give you a discount on your Home Insurance for having the professional monitoring. Wyze offers professional monitoring for Burglary, leaks and freeze monitoring right now, so if you do all of those, sometimes you get a discount off your insurance that saves you more money than the cost of the subscription, meaning you actually get PAID to have the monitoring subscription! That’s a no-brainer. In some cases maybe you just get part of the money back, but the money you save makes it more than worth it anyway especially with the extra benefits! So it’s totally up to you and your situation, but I recommend it, at least try it out and talk to your Home insurance about how much they’ll lower your costs for having professional monitoring for burglary, leaks, and freeze detections. Who knows, they might actually pay you more than you spend for it!

If you have the subscription, set up the Hazard remediation monitoring (Leak/Freeze). I talked about where I found those options when I first found it here:

If you choose to cancel the subscription, you can still have leak and temperature notifications sent to you even without any subscription. Here are the notification options that you get even without the subscription:

The Climate sensors also have notifications even without the subscription:

Plus both of them allow you set up Rules to trigger other devices to do something (flash lights, cause a siren to go off on a camera, etc):

The hub won’t beep when there is a leak without the subscription, but you can still set up a rule to make a camera trigger a siren alarm when a leak is detected. This option will only work while you have internet and power though. The subscription will allow the hub to alert you even if internet and power are out.

Regardless of the subscription or rule details, just make sure to put leak sensors anywhere there is a water pipe joint or drain joint since that is where most of the leaks will occur. So: under sinks, washing machine, dish washer, hot water heater, maybe bathroom floor (careful about this one, since sometimes liquid can come from people getting in and out of the shower/bath, or people being terrible about aiming where they “go” when they stand up to relieve their bladder…but definitely somewhere on the bathroom floor to alert you if the toilet overflows or something would be good), also somewhere on the floor underneath water pipe and drain areas (since those pipes might leak onto a lower floor), sump-pump area. Maybe near weak spots in the roof/attic or windows that might get left open or broken and leak when there is a storm. You get the idea.

I hope that helps. :+1:

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