Water level indicator to home automation?

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How can I connect a water level indicator to home automation?

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The description says Zigbee with no details.
The diagrams look like it is for a wired instrument, not a Zigbee wireless mesh conneciton.

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Yeah I think the Chinese have it confused. I’ve been talking back and forth with them for ages but they say that I need to buy their PLC device with it too.

Here’s another link to an Aliexpress one:

I just want to be able to connect some kind of water level sensor direct to my wifi router and control it with my home automation, so that I can have it automatically turn off a water pump via a zwave switch.

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The first one saying Zigbee would require a Zigbee controller.
For Home Automation I prefer to avoid Zigbee & Wi-Fi and to use Z-Wave Plus devices.
There are too many other wireless things to interfere with 2,4 GHZ Wi-FI & Zigbee IMO.

Nothing in that other sensor indicates any wireless capabilities either.

What exactly is the “problem” you are trying to solve and what Home Automation do you already have?

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Thanks for your responses Bruce!

My problem is that I haven’t been able to find any Z-wave water level sensors anywhere. Do you know of any? Or are you able to instruct me on how I can go about making another one Z-wave/home automation compatible.

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Welcome to the OpenHAB community Isaac!

i use zigbee, zwave and wifi together and see no issues. If it is a huge network with hundreds of nodes maybe but relatively reasonably sized system should have no problem mixing all three
Do you have a zigbee controller?

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Thanks Andrew!!

I don’t mind mixing them all either. The only issue here though is I’m pretty sure that the Alibaba one I was looking at isn’t actually Zigbee?

Have you ever used any devices along the lines of motors, sensors and irrigation etc?

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I’m also very interested in this as I’ve just bought a boat and I’m planning to equip it with openhab running on a Pi with sensors for water, fuel, amongst many other things.

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Do anyone know how to wire this? Is uses 24V but how to get the value for the water level? Is this 1 wire connection?