Smarten up your garden with Sonoff SWV

Just in time to save your garden, Sonoff has released new device - SWV or Smart Water Valve. Ths is Zigbee valve, but include very nice feature of water metering to help you with your gardening activities in the summer.
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00:00 - Intro
00:32 - Smart Water Valves for your plants
01:49 - Unboxing
03:34 - eWeLInk App integration
05:11 - Sonoff SWV with Home Assistant ZHA
07:55 - Support in Zigbee2MQTT
13:31 - Final thoughts
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[@donaldhoudek2889]

LOL, I just installed new PVC lines from my wife's garden to the rain barrels where I have a High output garden pump in one. I used a spare Sonoff"Mini Smart Light Switch" that has the 120VAC and pump wired into it and a "Flow" sensor. Works good! This would be so much easier both hardware and programming. I guess I need to re-do this again. My wife thinks I am crazy.... she's probably correct. I finished wiring this in yesterday. Great Video!

[@BeardedTinker]

I know the feeling. How many times I've finished something than next day better way to do it just pops up somewhere :) But if this works, keep it and enjoy fruit of your labour!!!

[@donaldhoudek2889]

@@BeardedTinker Nope, I still need to connect the flow sensor to a Pico W and get the data back to HA. After I got off your video, about 30 seconds went by and I got on line and ordered one. Getting lazy, all my 38 HA devices are ZigBee so it was a no brain er for me. Thanks

[@BeardedTinker]

Looking forward to hear how it all works together - BTW not sure if you've seen HA Smart Irrigation component, it may be of a use to you.

[@donaldhoudek2889]

@@BeardedTinker Thanks, I just looked at it and it looks interesting. Will have to dig deeper into the program.

[@smartercircuits]

Another wonderful video, my bearded compadre! I recently set up an irrigation timer both out of the box and assembled from individual parts and I have to say, this device would be admittedly cheaper (if you already have the hub for it). Also, mine does not meter the water--a challenge I may tackle later because that's a really useful feature. That's a pretty neat little water valve. I'd like to add a little "inside" info about these devices in general in case anyone is thinking of different use cases: If you want to use this on a rain barrel or other water source with no pressure, you would need to add a significantly powerful water pump capable of holding the water pressure high. The valves used in these sort of devices are diaphragm valves which require water pressure to operate--usually a minimum of 7-10 PSI (0.5-0.7 Bar) and nominally ~50 PSI (3-3.5 Bar). There are electronic ball valves for that sort of use, but I've not seen any smart ones, so you'd have to improvise a bit if you wanted to go that route. Just thought I'd drop a little something to contribute to the conversation. It's always a pleasure seeing what you're getting into. Thanks for the video!

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you!!! Watched your video and really liking what you did - you wanted on zone and ended up with 3 zones total. BTW - while I'm also clueless about adding BLE devices that are not supported, did try it once and actually it was not that hard - of course, you have no use for it now, but with the help of guide I had at that time, it was possible to follow steps and have basic operation. Unless data is encrypted, but I seriously doubt that they would do that with this type of device.

[@smartercircuits]

@@BeardedTinker I appreciate that very much! I may tackle the BLE thing again when I come back and do the moisture and rain sensors. Good to know it's a possibility. I may end up with a Zigbee hub after all, though. I got a super secret care package that I'll be revealing in the next few weeks. Thanks again for all your support and kind words!

[@adfjasjhf]

Not related to the video however I recently found a video "Apple Air Tags in Home Assistant - Proxmox Guide 2024" which allows you to see the Airtag location directly in HomeAssistant although it is in German. Would love to see an English video about it but of course I do not know if you have iPhone/iPad with Airtag to make it happen :)

[@BeardedTinker]

Have iPhone but not Airtag... :) But that didn't stop me in past :) Will try to get one.

[@adfjasjhf]

@@BeardedTinker Awesome! Looking forward to it :)

[@jospa6880]

Always great content! Quick question, what is the name of sunrise / sunset card you have on the dashboard?

[@BeardedTinker]

Thank you! That's HACS horizon-card - I did video on it some time ago.

[@mrmarkom]

Great info. It would be interesting to see how it works paired with some more complex integration for HA such as HAsmartirrigation or simlar to automate garden watering .

[@BeardedTinker]

I've looked at HA Smart Irrigation component and it shouldn't be the problem. But we would still need to create automation to be able to use data from SIrrigation component for watering everything.

[@adfjasjhf]

Awesome explanation video, might think about buying one :)

[@BeardedTinker]

Glad you liked it - thanks for the comment!!!!

[@LucodeHome]

Looks quite similar to the GiEX TS0601 valve. I guess it manufactured by the same company. But it seems sonoff has a much better firmware.

[@BeardedTinker]

GiEX - that's Tuya device right? It should be very similar.

[@Aurelian0610]

i hope it is better than that one as i have 3 of those and they suck , most of the time not working

[@LucodeHome]

@@Aurelian0610 you need to upgrade the firmware with their Tuya gateway. I had those issues too, now they are gone.

[@CliffordFullerton]

I have two different Zigbee Smart Water Valves (sorry, Sonoff - too late this time). Unfortunately, water measurement seems way off with those devices. I assume they only measure the time the valve is open and multiply that with a "possible" water throughput, regardless of how far the faucet is actually opened. Oh, well. More important is the reliablity, as I don't want to unintendedly flood my precious plants.

[@Tntdruid]

You can always test it in the shower 😂

[@BeardedTinker]

Tried, but problem with fittings :D

[@Tntdruid]

@@BeardedTinker lol

[@drumslapper]

just in time, ordered one.

[@BeardedTinker]

Hope you'll be satisfied with it!!!

[@drumslapper]

​@@BeardedTinker I'll be using it as a main feed control as I already have two automated zones on timers. That way if it's raining, I can delay the watering. I wish there were more entities under ZHA.

[@tedev]

ordered one today as well. i hope that we see all the options in ZHA soon

[@BeardedTinker]

My guess is very soon - it usually takes few weeks for someone to push custom quirks for new devices.

[@Tekwyzard]

​@@BeardedTinker When Lidl back in the day (early pandemic) briefly and spectacularly brought out their still amazing range of zigbee smart home stuff, one of them was a watering valve. It was ages, at least a year I think, before ZHA eventually exposed everything useful to control them. At first the things had to be retriggered every 58 seconds, which was devastating for the battery life, as there was no way to otherwise defeat the built in timer which defaulted to 1 minute. Now you can just move a number input slider to set the duration, open it, and it closes itself after the duration you set, seems simple but it took so long to happen. I liked it that much, even from before the extra functionality happened, that last year I hunted two more down, one to use, one a spare, as they're pure unobtanium now, they weren't new, but I don't care. I genuinely don't know why ZHA is so slow at getting proper functionality, I even considering migrating to Z2M because of it, and may still do. If they're cheap enough in rip-off Britain, it looks like the Sonoff SWV might be a serious contender, as I've never liked any of the alternatives to my now trusted Lidl specials.

[@BeardedTinker]

If I remember correctly they were rebranded Tuya devices. My personal favourite is Z2M - but I do get what people go for ZHA, it's easier to setup and maybe even use. But it does come with a price.

[@Aurelian0610]

this thing works directly with HA ? with SHA from the box ? or it works only with Z2Mqtt ? as so far i cannot have it working with my HA yellow

[@prakash86anish]

I have municipal water supply which comes for ~2 hours everyday. Is it possible to use this device on the main water line with valve always open and get notified whenever there's water supply (depending upon 'current status')? Or does such a device exist?

[@dumpsterdiner]

I hate my wifi valves 😮‍💨 Will give one of these a try and see if it works out better. It's so hot 🥵, I'll be watering non-stop pretty soon and just leave the valve open forever and not even need a smart valve 😓

[@BeardedTinker]

I know the feeling. I use around 15-16l from my AC daily to just water plants on my balcony :D

[@carlosroldao]

I have no garden but I wonder if this could be used in a dishwasher/washing machine paired with a water leak sensor just to shut off the water if a leak happens. That would be interesting

[@BeardedTinker]

It could. But also, there is already ready-made device for that from IKEA. Still not available worldwide, but it is designed just for those machines and they work in such a way that they stop water flowing to those machined after specific time.

[@carlosroldao]

@@BeardedTinker oh, I didn't know! That's great, thanks! I'll look it up.

[@puppet-head]

I could do either one of these, but it looks like its only available on their US shop.

[@BeardedTinker]

Just checked and it's available in their shop (that's not US shop) snd also all Amazon Sonoff shops (checked US, DE, UK) - but price on Amazon is much higher.

[@rajilsaraswat9763]

I would like to use this on roof top to clean solar panels. Is it rain proof?

[@BeardedTinker]

It's only IP55 rated.

[@CliffordFullerton]

Fortunately, we have enough rain in Berlin to take care of the solar panel cleaning.

[@BeardedTinker]

@@CliffordFullerton this year, most of the solar panels are under water due to rain :D

[@yousaf.saleem]

why not use if and then or choose to use a single automation?

[@BeardedTinker]

Yes, that's doable. But if you go for "cycles" you don't need that. You can use conditions still to check if there is any rain on radar.

[@yousaf.saleem]

@@BeardedTinker and you can also use soil humidity (cheap Chinese one) too as a condition/tirgger.

[@BeardedTinker]

Yes, that's right, that makes things even smarter than just using schedule or weather state.