Buy La Crosse Alerts D112.104.E1.WGB Wireless Monitor System Set with Water Leak ProbeLa Crosse Alerts D112.104.E1.WGB Wireless Monitor System Set with Water Leak Probe Product Description:
- Detectors moisture from any water leak, measures ambient air temperature and humidity
- Transmits to gateway in 200 ft. range
- Receive e-mail and text alerts for temperature and humidity, connection loss and low battery
- Internet and network router required (not included)
- Requires two AAA alkaline battery (not included)
Product Description
Use a smartphone, tablet or computer to receive early warning alerts and remotely monitor for water leaks and temperature and humidity levels. Prevent property damage to your home, business or vacation rentals from faulty pipes, hoses, sinks, sumps & mold. Monitor the kitchen, bath, basement and laundry or pool room.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Very useful
By Brian Reaves
We had a sink that constantly developed a loose connection with one of the pipes under it. For years we've used one of those alarms that beeps when water hits it, and it's an effective situation as long as we are in the house to hear it. The WMSS allows you to monitor it and be notified if there's a problem even when you aren't at home. The text message or email options are nice, and set up is relatively simple. For us, using this device under the sink in the bathroom (inside the cabinet) didn't allow for a very strong signal, but I can easily see where this could be hooked up in the basement of a house and it work with no problem.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Works well, but has a few flaws
By D. Greenbaum
This La Crosse package consists of a base station, which is connected to your home network, and a remote probe, which, after being associated with the base station, can be places anywhere in your home. The probe measure temperature and humidity, and has a water detector which is connected via a wire to the probe (the probe itself is not waterproof).Setup is quite complex - with over a dozen separate steps requiring pushing buttons on the base station, a web site, and the probe, as well as entering several serial numbers and product codes. This might have been a deal-killer, but the La Crosse website wizard worked quite well and I had no problems. If you are comfortable with technology this won't be an issue for you, but if you are one of those people who gets confused with the remote control for your TV, have a friend help you out.Once activated, the probe reports temperature, humidity and the presence of water. You can physically view the LCD on the probe, but the real strength comes from remote access and logging. The La Crosse web site keeps a continuous log of your home's temperature and humidity, useful for historic data analysis or improving your energy efficiency. Their monitoring service will also send you a text message of certain conditions are met, like the presence of water or if the temperature drops below a certain level - great for monitoring a basement, garage or vacation home. According to the manual, the batteries in the probe will last up to 2 years. Keep in mind that you must have an active internet connection so the probe can upload data to La Crosses' servers.There are three flaws in the product which do not disqualify the product from being useful or recommended, but they do cheapen the experience. First, La Crosse doesn't make it clear that to use the probe in any useful way (i.e. to view reports, see data remotely, and get alerts) you must subscribe to a service which is free the first year but costs money after. This needs to be made more clear in the packaging and descriptions. Secondly, La Crosse trumpets smartphone support, which is dishonest. I expected an app, but there is no app - the "smartphone" support is simply a mobile-optimized web site, which is substantially less useful then a real app. For example, a real app would allow for flexible notifications rather then La Crosses' one sized fits all SMS alert system and would look a lot nicer then the crude web site. Finally, the package didn't include the required 2 AAA batteries, meaning that in the middle of setting it up, I had to stop and scramble to go find some. This is just cheap and leads to a diminished customer experience.In spite of these flaws, for its price, this is a good product which does what it says, and so I still recommend it, but if La Crosse made it clear that the subscription service costs money, and threw in batteries and made a web app, this would be a 5 star product.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.Easy setup and worked first time, but LaCrosse should note that you must subscribe to a service to use it
By Joel Avrunin
This product works surprisingly well, and as a product would garner 5 stars from me, but I was disappointed with some details that I felt were lacking from the Amazon description which I hope to elucidate in my review.When you get the box, you will have a mini panic attack at all of the parts, but don't fret. There is a base station receiver which has an AC adapter for power and a short Ethernet Cable. Sadly, there's no WiFi bridge so you must have space in your router or you will need to get an Ethernet Switch (about $40). The receiver has a single gray button on it and two LED lights. There is also the tranmitter itself which can be mounted remotely. It takes two AAA batteries (not included), and has a sensor on an extended wire so you can mount the transmitter high on the wall (away from possible water) with the sensor itself near the ground. The transmitter measures Temperature, Humidity and Wetness (yes or no for the latter). It will make a measurement every 2 minutes and send it back to the receiver. The box also includes two plastic brackets (for the transmitter and receiver) and screws/wall anchors. The sensor itself has holes for mounting on a wall as well.Setup is a breeze. You go to the LaCrosse Alerts website and sign up for an account. You enter the activation code that comes with the device. Then you plug in the receiver and press the gray button when it tells you to press it. The website then asks for the serial number from the receiver. Once that is associated with the account, you repeat the process for the transmitter/sensor, putting in the batteries and pushing the button. The transmitter has a small LCD display that will tell you the humidity, temperature, and wetness without going to the website (would be nice if the receiver had this as well).The whole thing works - I set it up for text message alerts. You can set custom alerts for temperature, humidity, and wetness. You can add some hysteresis, so it can avoid alerting you for 1 bad measurement, but maybe 3 in a row is an alert (could be good in a sump pit to detect failure - water sometimes is fine, but for too long means failure). I put it in my basement, dumped some water on the floor, and 6 minutes later (since I told it I had to get 3 bad readings), I got a text message alert of a flood.So why 3 stars? First, the ad makes it look like there is an iPhone app. There isn't - just a mobile friendly website. So you will not get app notifications but rather normal SMS text messages for alerts.Second - the sensor comes with a 1 year enhanced subscription and a 5 year basic. The basic just lets you log into the website and see current status. Enhanced is required for the alerts (and graphing among other features). The service costs $11.88 a year. So after 1 year, you will be paying LaCrosse to keep the alerts going. Is it worth $11.88 a year? I think so, but nowhere on Amazon does it say that this device is essentially useless without a subscription. I was hoping that maybe there was some PC software to talk to the receiver directly to avoid the LaCrosse service, but not such luck. I was also hoping that maybe there was an audible alarm as a backup. Also, no such luck. So without power, an active internet connection, and a yearly subscription fee (past the first year which is free), it is useless. Should this keep you from buying it? I don't think so - it's a useful device and quite a stress reliever when you are out of town. But should LaCrosse have made this clear? Absolutely - they need to indicate it comes with 1 year of free monitoring and extra years cost money.Third (and hence why 3 stars and not 4), the receiver makes a weird buzzing sound which is remarkably loud even in my office with multiple computers and other devices running, I can hear it buzzing. I will have to place it somewhere more inaccessible and run a longer network cable to it. If your router is in your bedroom, you might also want to avoid it. Seriously - why doesn't LaCrosse just make the transmitter a WiFi device since almost everyone has wireless routers now anyways? In any event, it works, but there is something wrong with the design that it is so loud.Recommended so long as you understand what you are actually getting.
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