Any plans to build an 800 based Zooz sensor which ships with small terminals?

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Looking for an 800 based Z-Wave sensor which may be easy to modify or has built in terminals, similar to the older Ecolink door sensors, so I can use my existing contacts. Anything like this on the roadmap?

I’m ready to hack one of these nice ZEN37 wall remotes apart and test my soldering skills.

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Thanks for your feedback! We do not have anything like this in the works at this time, but I’ve forwarded your thoughts to our development team for review going forward. Let us know if you have any questions!

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Thanks for the response. I rely on the older Ecolink Z-Wave door/window sensors, and Tilt sensors, since they offer these external inputs (but they’re bulky, and no LR). I use them for things such as office chair occupancy monitoring, interfacing some alarm runs to my doors which weren’t in use, anything with custom doors (mailbox) which may not have enough space for more than a tiny magnet. These would be extremely useful/versatile for sure!

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Agreed! I recently had to press a ZEN17 Universal Relay (which switches landscape lighting in the summer) into service because it can have its inputs set up independently of the relays–the same kind of thing you would get with a sensor having terminals. It’s now monitoring my sump pump to see if the motor runs while we’re away for the winter, using an AC current sensing device with dry contact relay output. It works, but I’ll still need a replacement when it goes back to landscape lighting in the spring.

One could hack a simple contact sensor, say a Zooz ZSE41 800LR Open/Close Sensor to get the job done, I suppose…

You might be interested in the FIBARO Smart Implant Z-Wave Plus, FGBS-222, which has a slew of various inputs–although it’s a bit more expensive and perhaps overkill for your application.

Next spring I’m going to look at it for some monitoring functions at our home, including temperature/humidity, perhaps motion (using a hardwired PIR device) and maybe my garage doors. That would fold four devices in my garage into one…

(It should work okay with Z-Box: can you confirm that, @Sara ?)

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Sure thing! I can confirm that the FGBS-222 will work well on the Z-Box :slight_smile:

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Turns out the sump pump didn’t run even once–apparently last year’s basement water issue must have been a fluke! But this turns out to be a good solution when you want to know if any a/c powered system is or has run. :slightly_smiling_face:

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