I’m looking for a water valve, such as Spetu Z Wave Water Auto Afsluiter Zwave Smart Home Automation Werken Met Z Wave Water Lek Gas Lekkage sensor|Domotica| - AliExpress which is ZWave Plus, but probably Zigbee or Tuya/Wifi would work as well. I was not able to find an app for any of these though.
Did anyone implement a water valve, which one?
There is a valve from Popp which is supported by the Popp app.
But it is much expensive than this one from Ali.
And I don’t know if there is a difference between “Flow Stop Valve” and “Flow Stop 2 Valve”. You can ask the app developer if the “Flow Stop 2 Valve” is also supported by the app.
Tuya Zigbee Valve Controller (sold under several white label brands) is supported by the Tuya Zigbee App.
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Hallo,
I bought this Tuya Zigbee valve: Tuya Zigbee Home Intelligente Kleppen Water Kleppen Gassen Kleppen Manipulator Controle Intelligente Koppeling App Afstandsbedieningen Controle|Valve| - AliExpress
and Tuya Zigbee app not suported this.
Can you help me please?
Thank you for any advice.
Alex
What kind of valve are you searching? For house installation (main security waterstop) or for garden?
For water stop I have installed a Danfoss magnetic valve in the main line (open without power). Not cheap but it should hold some years 
The valve is activated with a simple zigbee plug.
A Fibaro water sensor is used to trigger if there is a leakage.
For garden I use two Linktap valves:
https://www.amazon.de/LinkTap-Drahtlose-Bewässerungscomputer-Gateway-Wassermengenzähler/dp/B08YW83WK5
There is a Homey app available:
I’ve installed the EcoNet Controls Bulldog robot shutoff. This will work for existing 1/4 turn ball valves.There is no app but this works using the generic Z-Wave. Eight years ago this was my sole reason for getting into home automation but my original shutoff was a little weak. I’ve since upgraded to the Homey Pro and the Bulldog. The Bulldog is significantly stronger and well built. Don’t just take my word, Google it. They have wifi, Z-Wave, and LoRa version. I also opted for the backup batter to power it a while while the power is out.
How well did the range on z wave work for you? I my water shutoff valve is outside the house (live in the south LOL). Also were you able to expose it to homekit and use those automations? Texts etc?
They have an outdoor kit for the EcoNet valve so get that for sure. I have power outages several time where since I’m at in the wintery north so I got a battery backup. I’ve had zero connection issues but my valve is in doors. The radio on this thing is pretty good as several devices have choose to connect to it. I have range tested devices and found huge differences. I’ve got a couple Zooz battery devices and they struggle to reach 20 feet, where as my Aerotech devices work fine well over 100 feet away from across the street so you het what you pay for. I doubt you’ll have any connectivity issues with the EcoNet valve. If you do, just buy a plug switch that is also a range extender and put it as close as possible like on the closest wall inside the house.
They also have another option using LoRa which will work to a 1/4 mile. But I’m not sure how to connect it to Homey Pro using LoRa. The hub LoRa may be able to do this but I’m not sure.
The only complaint I have is it’s easy to bend the pins in the connector so careful there. Once connected there is no reason to disconnect it so don’t. It’s a study connector but the pins a tricky to line up and don’t rotate it while trying to line up the pins.
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