Govee WiFi Water Sensor with Adjustable Audio Alarm up to 100dB and Smart App Alerts

Alexander Stuart: These detectors have been a Godsend. My main drain line backs up a couple times a year and the water comes up into the basement. It used to be that when it happened, it had been going on for however many days till I happened to go in the basement. Several times it was an absolute nightmare of a clean up. Now, I set one by each drain and if it backs up, an audible alarm goes off and I get a text message. There's no damage, very little water and I can run my drain machine through and be done with it.

United States on Sep 10, 2023

Engineer: WiFi: Note the 5G constraint. I placed the device and hub on different floors with no WiFi repeater and had no problems with connectivity.
Ease of use: Designed for professional use, not a homeowner. Took me 1.5 hours to configure and I was a system engineer for a living. My spouse (also an engineer) gave up. Be sure to test that the device works at every major step (device detects water before you configure, device close to the hub, and device in the final location with a greater distance from the hub). The hard copy user manual is tiny print and difficult to read. There does not appear to be a more detailed user manual online. Required me to set up a Govee account and then I had to disable all the unwanted stuff they want to send you. It is very difficult to find "profile setting" in the app to have alert notifications emailed to me and why else would I buy this device. Part of the difficulty is that the app is designed to remotely monitor and configure lots of different types of Govee devices. If this device allows me to catch a water leak early, then it is definitely worth the trouble.

United States on Aug 19, 2023

E.F.: Anyone that’s gone through water damage will tell you this is definitely worth the time and investment. Time will tell if these devices will work down the road but what I like about this product is that there are alarms on each sensor as well as an app that will trigger email notifications and app notifications. If your Wi-Fi and power is down for some reason, you still have the alarm in each individual sensor as a fallback. As others have pointed out, the initial set up can be a bit of a pain, particularly if you were on 5G so I decided to outline the steps for my process as a Verizon FiOS customer using gigabit service and 5 GHz WiFi.

Fios Setup
First go to the FiOS app on your iPhone or android. Depending on your app set up, click on Internet (Manage your home network)/Advanced Settings/Self Organizing Network (SON) and disable it. Once you come back out to the Prior menu screen you should see both your 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz networks. In order to set up the Govee, I temporarily disabled my 5 GHz networks to avoid any issues with the device pairing. After I was done setting up the hub and pairing all sensors, I reenabled the 5 gig service.

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United States on Mar 04, 2022

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Mexico on Sep 23, 2021

E. F. K.: I received the item and a box of five more sensors about an hour ago. I am professional at home construction, including the plumbing trade. Here's what I found.
After setting up the first sensor to the internet, I proceeded to place that one under my kitchen sink. I looked under the sink with a flashlight and didn't notice anything on the bottom of the sink cabinet, so I slid the sensor to the back of the cabinet. On doing so, I felt a dampness on the palm of my hand as I placed the sensor. There was a film of water on the bottom of the cabinet. I waited to see if the sensor would go off, as it did when I tested it by wetting a finger and putting it across two of the terminals on the bottom of the sensor. Well, that film of water did not trip the sensor. Wondering why, I placed the sensor on a flat piece of plastic on my work bench and I could see there is a 1/16 inch or so of space between the sensor probes and the flat plastic sheet I put it on. That's the problem right there. A film of water on the bottom of a cabinet will not set the sensor off. The probes will not contact the water surface.
Here's what I did. I removed the little rubber plugs from each of the four feet...

United States on Apr 24, 2021