A water leak in your house is never fun and it's never cheap. Today we're gonna
look at a system that's gonna put into that called the water guard by Eve.
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Welcome back guys, my name is Eric. You're watching Monder Day Tech where I like to
simplify tech for your life. Today's video is a part of my HomeKit
series. If you're interested in smart homes I hope you consider subscribing
down below. They're only a handful of water sensors built for Homekit.
There's the Abode, Fibaro, and the Aqara water sensors. Most of those are
just little sensors battery-operated that sit on the floor . I think the Abode
has a water sensing wire but Eve decided to be a little bit different and instead of
being battery-operated they have a unit that actually plugs into the wall and
then they're sensing wire plugs right in there. It runs down the wall and onto the
floor. Now Eve does include one wire which is about a meter along or
two-and-a-half feet but it can be extended all the way up to about 150
meters or about 450 feet. Now like I mentioned this is part of Homekit so
the nice thing about this is that you can actually trigger other things when this
the alarm goes off. For instance, if you plug it in and we're gonna spill some water
on this not only is the Eve app going to go off. Like that. But I also
have it set up for my Litra, not my Litra, my Lifx
lights to go off also. If you want to setup automation like this you can use
the HomeKit app or use the eve app. Which you can actually set a couple more
conditions. I got to tell you this...The Eve app is awesome! It is hands-down the best
Homekit app out there on the market that doesn't cost you anything. If you
don't mind paying the extra fifteen dollars you can get the home+ app
which is awesome also but the Eve does everything that you need to do with
conditions and it definitely like I said hands down the best Homekit app out
there currently. For the most part this is pretty straightforward. You can set this
up anywhere you where you might have a water leak. Around a dishwasher, washing
machine, a sink, a water heater. I actually have water a water leak around my
condensing unit around my AC system one-time so I'm gonna put a wire around
there now. This wire is awesome I got to admit. I don't know why all water sensors
don't have a wire like this I'm sure eventually they all will but my biggest
question is that when this thing is plugged next to a washing machine
usually, that outlet is kind of high. By the time that this sensing water gets
down to the floor, you've already lost two maybe even three feet. So my big
question was since this is just an audio cable this is a three-and-a-half
millimeter jack and the other size three and a half.
Can I just use a standard
extension from audio and see if it still works. Well I have good news I tested it
out and you can use a normal audio cable to extend this. Now understand that
cables is not going to sense water but it's just going to hang down from here down
to the floor where then you can plug this in. Setting this up is super easy
just like other homekit enabled products. You scan the little QR code inside the
homekit app and tada you're done. You can set it up to room, set to the zone, if you
want to, but that's it you plug this in and it will notify you when you have a
water leak. I originally wanted my Eve plug to be plugged into the bottom
socket I couldn't do that because my wash machine plug had a three prong and
I couldn't turn it upside down I was facing down so in my particular
situation I had to plug in the top but it did stick out further enough where I was
still able to plug in the wire. Everyone's situation is gonna be a
little bit different too but you can see the little issue I ran through here not a
big deal. You also want to be aware of the wire
not sticking all the way down to the floor where there might be a water leak
so you either have to wait - the wire settles down a little bit if it ever
said those down or tape it down to the floor. I'll update my pros and
my website to let you know if it ever settles down. Now you don't need a hub to
use this or to set it up but you do need an iPhone to set it up. I also do
recommend the hub that way when you're away from the house you get notified of
a water leak and you know to come back and take care of it as soon as possible.
Which you can use a homepod, an Apple TV fourth-generation or better or old iPad
running iOS 13 or better. Now this is bluetooth now that is a concern to a lot
people want to concern to me also because Bluetooth does not have the
longest range. Now Eve does offer a Bluetooth extender I think it's like $50
or so so if you have a huge house you definitely won't get that extender also.
Downside to this extender is that it only works with other Eve products so if
you have other homekit products that use bluetooth unfortunately it doesn't
work with this hub and I don't know why they did that for but most homes are not
going to need that extender. Now I've only used this for a couple days now and
so far so good no problems whatsoever I've been testing it and it's been
working great. I will be updating my full pros and cons list on my website as I
continue using this and the only con I have of this product right now is the
price unfortunately it's kind of priced outside the ballpark of other homekit
enabled water sensors, so I do see that price coming down but being brand new on
the market I don't see them coming down anytime soon. I hope this video helped
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