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Worried about water leaks in the basement, behind the water heater, under the kitchen sink, or in the sump pump area? The SimpleSence Capteur wi-fi water leak detector is a great solution and ensures you can't miss when the next leak occurs. It has an audible alarm, sends you text notifications, and even emails you - even if you're 500 miles from home! Perfect for vacation homes, RVs, offices, shops, garages, and so much more.
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A Wi-Fi enabled water sensor that can notify you when you have a leak even if you're 500 miles away
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Let's check this out. Dave Taylor here and as a homeowner I'm always worried about water leaks in places I don't visit
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very often. For example, my basement, underneath my water heater, under the sink in my kitchen
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How often do you check those to see if there's any water leakage? Enter this. This is so cool
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This is the SimpleSense Wi-Fi leak detector and with its three-foot probe it's super easy
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You plug it in, you set the probe where you want it to, you pair it with your phone and give it
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Wi-Fi information so it doesn't need your phone to be present to work and then if it detects a
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water leak it will send a notification to the app and the app will notify you, email you
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the sensor itself will have an alarm. It's not a very loud one but there's a lot going on. It's
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really pretty slick and it's really a set and forget. It's powered by two AAA batteries
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included and that gives you about two years of protection. When you need to change the batteries
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it's a little tricky. There's a little spot in the back, you pop the rubber seal out, there's a screw
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you unscrew that, you pop the top off and that's it. Then there's two batteries right there
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Take them out, put in fresh ones, screw the whole thing back together, put it back where you were
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and then set a reminder on your calendar for two years down the road. That's pretty easy. So where
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could you put one of these? Well, like I said, you could definitely put it by your water heater but
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you can put it in your attic, in your basement, under a sink, you can put it by your washer and dryer
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you can put it by your sump pump if you have one of those which I do in my basement. So it also will
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detect if there's a freeze. That's also critically important because, you know, the cost of one of
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these and being able to deal with the issue when it just gets there as opposed to going into the
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basement and wondering why there's seven inches of water on the floor, yikes, that's thousands if not
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tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage versus one of these, no-brainer. So let me show you
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how it works. So the app is the SimpleSense app, free download for iPhone or Android and as you
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can see I actually have two of their sensors. I have one that's in my bathroom that's been sitting
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there right behind the basement bathroom toilet for a couple years and it still reports 100
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battery. So this thing just doesn't use much battery. This one's called Water Heater and it's
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super easy to set up because as you can see on the back there are two metal sensors and they're
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really the secret. If there's water, if the electrical sort of current between those two closes
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then the sensor triggers. So this is just a remote device. You could actually use it without the probe
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but the probe makes it much more effective and much more useful. So I can go in here and I can
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look at my sensor history. I can change Wi-Fi. I can change my location name. Obviously you can have a
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whole bunch of these. You can change your notifications but what I want to do is I'm
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going to actually go ahead and we're going to put the probe in some water, right. This is the test
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the real thing. So let's see what happens. So here we go and there's a leak. Oh no. Okay so it's
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giving me the first beep. Now let's listen. So now it's saying there's still an issue and then
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So that's my alarm sensor and it's not super loud but notice in the app I've got a notification. I
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got two different notifications. So we're going to go ahead and take it out of there and that
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should dry off. So now it'll actually send a notification that the problem's resolved
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Which is important if you do get a notification just for a second or two. I'd definitely check
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it out but it could be to do with condensation. If you have an alarm go off and it's going off
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for a while that's obviously much more of a big issue. Now the alarm is supposed to be 80 decibels
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I don't think mine is set to that volume. I don't know exactly why but this is going to be in a
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remote location anyway. So I'm totally counting on the app to work and as you saw the app works
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How easy is that? So there's just so much to like with this really simple elegant solution and props
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to them. Their instruction manual is well illustrated. It's clear. It has great photos
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The image of how to change the battery absolutely leaves no questions. So when you get this unit and
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you hook it up and you get it plugged into the app and you install it, keep the instructions or keep
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them in the box. You'll need them once in a blue moon. But when you do, really well done. I mean
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there's a lot of positives. I have no negatives at all. This is just the kind of thing where this
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is why we have all these smart homes. This is exactly these sort of sensors and you want to
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just get a couple of these and put them in key strategic locations in your home or your vacation
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home or your RV or your garage. Anywhere where you could have water leaks that would then be
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pretty catastrophic. So all good. Simple, straightforward as you can see. There's really not
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much to it. There's no buttons. There's no switches. There's no dials. There's no settings. There's no
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LEDs. It is a set configure and forget and that's exactly what I like for my smart home. So only
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thing let's talk about is the price. But before we get to the price, I'm going to ask if you could
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subscribe to my channel. I get my hands on tons of cool gear and I always give you really straight
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really honest reviews. If there are any issues I will always tell you what those issues are. I'll
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even occasionally say that you probably shouldn't buy this. They need to do a little more engineering
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before it's ready. But that is not the case with this. This, so cool, is the SimpleSense Wi-Fi
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Leak Detector and it's $69.95 including the three foot sensor tail. Let's get the right words
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And you can pick that up at Amazon.com. You can also daisy chain these. Apparently you can actually
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make it up to a 15 foot probe by buying additional sensor tails off of Amazon. So if you have a sort
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of scenario or situation where you need to really snake it behind something, this will totally
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support that. Or you can pick up multiple. I also noticed that if you want to get three or five
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especially, the price goes way down. But whatever the deal is, I really like having this. I really
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am going to be really happy to know that it's just sitting underneath my water heater in case there's
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I don't care if there's like just like a half a cup of water leaking. I want to know as soon as I
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possibly can so I can immediately start resolving the situation. And if you're a homeowner, I know
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you feel the same way. So check this out. That's all I got. I gotta go install this. So I'll have
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to catch you in my next video
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