Resideo RCHW3610WF1001/N Wi-Fi Water Leak Detector, 1.2, White

We bought three of these for all three floors of our townhome. One for the basement/utility closet, kitchen/dishwasher, and a third for the top floor laundry area.These are cleverly designed units, each packed with humidity, temperature, and flood sensors.The coverage area for the flood sensor can be extended by a couple feet by connecting the included sensing cable. You can even add on to that cable to extend the coverage even more.Battery life seems good and you can configure the interval that the unit syncs with the Honeywell/Resideo cloud service.Each unit also has an onboard speaker that will sound if there is a problem condition detected.Pairing to the Honeywell Home app was very easy and straightforward but had to be repeated of course for each sensor.Inside the app, you see each sensor's data as a trend on a graph. You can also set alerts for the system to notify you of abnormal conditions such as unusual humidity or temperature levels.If you have any other Honeywell Home / Resideo products such as a Lyric Thermostat, it is very convenient because you have all these devices under one app.

Honeywell did NOT disappoint! I'm a retired Union Electrician, and have installed many Honeywell products. This is why, that when there came a need for a leak detector, I immediately looked for Honeywell. This product is amazing. The initial start up is so simple, with different colored lights on the sensor, guiding you through each step. A solid green light at the end, will coincide with the app informing you that setup was successful. (Note that, after set-up is complete, the green light will stay lit for 5 minutes, then will go out to conserve battery life. (I thought I lost the connection and had to Google this). Again, the software and start-up of this device is extremely impressive. I had a unique situation, where I was dealing with the need for space in a small, just re-modeled laundry room, so when I installed the new water heater, I did not use a drain pan, which is about 4" wider than the water heater. I also have the original, American Standard furnace, from 1965, that still purrs like a kitten! The sensor comes with a plug in cable (you have to force the little rubber plug out of the sensor, to plug it in). If you look at my pics, I was able to place the sensor body on the floor, right between the water heater, and the furnace. The white cable you see leaving the sensor, is just lying on the floor, all around the outer edge of the boiler (the cable is around 5', and the entire length of cable is a leak detector), and it ends where you see the little white dead end, which I was able to just tuck under the edge of the boiler. So the drain panless water heater, and very old boiler, are now being protected from leaking. Ridiculously great application here! Now add in that a live test of the device was equally impressive. All users were quickly notified (took under a minute for the device to sense water), I was able to quickly silence the audible alarm (which is surely sufficient as a local alarm), dry things off, and put them into live action. Honeywell, you've outdone yourself with this product! I am not being paid or perked to review this product, it was just THAT impressive. An absolute steal at this price too!! Just wow

I researched and compared over a dozen of these water-leak detectors. The resideo was the best water-leak detector for my needs. I was looking to purchase a water-leak detector to set in my upstairs HVAC’s emergency drain pain, to alert me when excess condensation drips into the pan, which means the condensation line is clogged. I already have several water-leak detectors and an automatic shutoff valve on my water line; but, I needed a separate device on a different system for my HVAC because I would not want my HVAC water-leak device to shut off my plumbing if it sensed moisture. I just wanted to be notified for this—a notification sound locally and a notification sent to my iPhone.All of these types of water-leak devices run on batteries and provide notifications when water is sensed (by e-mail, text, and/or push notifications). My priorities in finding the right device for me were: a solid piece of equipment, that is easy to set up, that will attach to my home wifi network without a hub and remain connected, that is easy to reset and change out batteries (without a screwdriver), and that would provide a notification when the batteries need changing. Temperature and humidity readings, an attached water-sensing cable, and an LED light were all bonus features to me. The resideo satisfied all of my criteria, more so than any other, and it has all of those bonus features too.In my research, I found a couple of other devices that I had read great things about, difficult to attach to my home wifi network (maybe it had something to do with our mesh network system). I was not too patient with this; if I could not get a device to attach to my strong wifi network within 10 minutes, then I would start packing it back up for the return. And any device that required you to tinker with your mesh network wifi settings was not anything I was interested in.Some other devices lack user-friendliness in the setup, which quickly turned me off (e.g., having to unscrew the back of a device to put it in paring mode; having to remove the batteries to put in pairing mode; lacking a button to put in pairing mode; having to unscrew the back of the device just to change out the batteries). An LED light is helpful when setting up these devices, and it makes you feel that it is a nicer product for the money.I did call resideo’s customer service once to confirm information. I was not impressed. Fortunately, you probably won’t have to connect with customer service on an easy device like this one.It’s important to note that none of these battery-operated water-leak devices that attach directly to your wifi network stay connected to the wifi network all day. Each of them merely "checks in" one to three times each day to get temperature, humidity and battery readings (the higher end devices like the resideo can be programmed to check in up to three times each day). So, for all of these devices, your temperature, humidity and battery readings are not in real time; they are taken at the check-in times. Don’t worry—this check-in system does not affect the device’s ability to alert you when it senses water.I read in other reviews that the resideo was seconds slower than other devices to provide water-leak alerts. That may be the case; but, the resideo worked quickly for me when I tested it. Also, the resideo does not provide text alerts; it just provides e-mail and push notifications. I would rather have all three, and many devices do have all three. But, this was not a deal-breaker for me.

This is a great water leak and freeze detector device. The setup was a very easy and uneventful. To setup make sure you have Bluetooth enabled, else the setup will fail. Next, I would advise to install the mobile app first, before inserting the batteries. The paring process lasts for about 5 seconds, so if you miss the window, you will need to take out the batteries and retry the pairing process again. Also, you may need to reset the device by using a paper clip and inserting one end into the reset hole to reset the device. My router is this device: Netgear R7500 Nighthawk X4 AC2350 Dual Band WiFi Router , and I had no issues connecting to this router at all. I suspect the Lyric only connects to the 2.4 GHZ signal because that signal has a longer range than the 5GHZ signal and could go through walls much easier as well. Technically, there is no reason why Honeywell could not have added an additionally 5GhZ radio. I think they were just being careful and wanted to maximize the signal range of this device, since it may be placed in very far away, and inconveniently located, places. Nevertheless, the device paired, connected to my router, and connected to the Honeywell servers without incident.Also, Honeywell included 2 batteries in the package, therefore, you do not have to go out and buy the initial set of batteries for it. The app keeps tabs on the strength of the batteries, so you will know when to change them when the time comes. Moreover, the app has the ability to invite other people, that has the app installed, to get alerts and notification for any Lyric you have installed in the house. There is also a specific invite for Homekit users as well, although I did not test this feature Even though the device is not Homekit enabled, you need to create a house, in the app, and after that, you add multiple Lyrics to that house. It's very similar to the Homekit naming scheme. Unlike Homekit though, I saw no way to create multiple homes in the app. So, if you have a rental, summer house, etc., I'm not sure Honeywell expects the app to work in this situation. I suspect the reason the Lyric is not Homekit enabled is because Homekit has a requirement that the device must always be reachable. Since the Lyric sleeps a lot, in order to conserve batteries, this violates this particular Homekit requirement as the device is not always reachable when it is asleep. It would have been great if the Lyric had the option to use an AC adapter as additional power source for users that want/need and always on device.Next, I tested the water leak feature by attaching the cable sensor to the Lyric and placing one end of the chord in a sink filled with water. Between 20s and 1 minute, I received and an email and push notification that a water leak was detected. Also, the alarm went off during the same time period as well. When the alarm goes off, the user interface comes up and allows you to mute the alarm. However, the alarm does not mute immediately. For some reason, it can take up to 2 minutes to mute the alarm. Next, I took a towel and sufficiently dried the parts of the cable sensor until I thought it was dry. To my surprise, I received another alert, and a email telling me that the water leak was resolved!. That was unexpected and a very nice touch.The app allows the user to set the interval of how often temperature and humidity information is sent to your mobile device. The max, is up to 3 times daily. Sadly, there is no option to get an on demand reading at any time, or to schedule an out of band reading. Once the device is set to go to sleep, other than a water leak, nothing else appears to wake it up. So, you might have to wait a long time (48 hours) before you know the temperature has dropped and get a freeze notification. It would have be great to have a wake-on-Lan feature to send a control packet to the device to wake it up and get some sort of on-demand reading.There is no IFTTT or Amazon Echo integration that I can detect. But nevertheless, I think the device and app works great so far. Some sort of IFTT integration would really complete the app.Update 10-20-2016 I was away from my home for about 4 weeks. I completely forgot I installed this device under my sink. One day, while I was away, I received an alert that the humidity was high and the temperature was low from this device. I contacted my neighbor to go and check the device under the sink. When he walked into my house, he found the temperature in the house very cold. It turns out my furnace stopped working and that's why the temperature and humidity alert went off. He called the furnace repair company and they fixed the problem with the furnace. So this device has really worked out for me already.Update 09-27-2017This device is still working great. The battery is currently at 80% from since I initially wrote this review. In addition, it also alerted me to a high humidity issue that would have turned into major issue if this device was not installed.Update 11-17-2017Honeywell just updated their Alexa still to include this leak detector. You can ask Alexa what is the temperature at the location the leak detector is located at (ex. Kitchen Sink). But asking it about humidity is not supported.

I now have four of these in various locations in the house and shop. They have paid for themselves on at least two occasions, once when a recent pex crimp began leaking and once when the water heater sprang a leak. If you're home, the device beeps loudly. If you're away alerts come via email. One of these failures occurred while we were away on a 5-week vacation.On a third occasion one of these units alerted me to a leak in a client's house that could have proved absolutely disastrous. They were gone on vacation and wouldn't have been home for another month at least. I had been shutting the water on and off while installing a vanity, and the on/off pressure caused an old kitchen shut-off to fail.Once you become slightly familiar with the setup, it only takes a couple minutes.1. Download the app.2. Pair the device with your phone via bluetooth, then with your phone3. Give it a name and location4. Provide it with your wireless AP and password. Bob's yer uncle.I do wish the batteries lasted a bit longer, and the units can, on occasion, deliver a false positive, particularly if they come into contact with any salt (as in the vicinity of a water softener), but I've never had one *not* trigger an alarm if there was a leak.I should note that these also trigger alarms for low and high temperature situations, which is why I put one in the shop. That way if I don't go out there for a few days, I'll know if the boiler has stopped working before all the pipes freeze.All in all, I'd recommend these. There are fewer bigger regrets than having to gut a basement after a flood. This I know (pre-purchase).