Dome Automatic Main Water Shut-Off Valve Controller

The media could not be loaded. Initially I bought two of these for water shut off and used one of them for water. It worked great as a water shut-off valve.Then I decided to automate the projector door for a 150” bedroom screen. I just needed to add one piece of linkage...So I bought a short 6” forked-end marine turn-buckle and threw away most of the Dome brackets for attaching to a pipe. Home theater projector is now hidden whenever we’re not watching a movie. I included a few pictures of the project....Additionally I have one of these on my water valve. Perfect operation in the first year and I do test it from time to time.I’ll be buying a third unit to automate the door to a roomba cave. You don’t see any hinges on my work because I use SOSS Hidden Door hinges.I wish I could give this 4.5 stars but can do only 4 stars, but because there are no limit switch adjustments and also I believe the 12VDC/1A power supply may be a bit marginal I'm kept from 5 stars. I may try a bigger current source soon to make the motor just a tad stronger; I don’t trust the puny power source, not that it’s failed yet.EDIT: I changed my rating to 5 stars with new information after working with this z-wave motor a 3rd time. On the projector door automation project I was thinking that the motor might be a 'tad' weak because it was fighting my hatch door and yes, I'll admit this was not it's intended purpose... but lifting that door requires less force than turning a water valve. Instead, I decided to make some improvements to my door/linkage design and investigate a better power supply. Practice makes perfect so I bought a 3rd Dome water shut-off valve and built a "Roomba cave" complete with a door that opens and closes in my 6.5" baseboards. The Roomba door opens and the Roomba cleans the room, returning to it's docking station inside of the Roomba cave and then the door closes. Again, I used SOSS hidden door hinges... because there is nothing dumber than a "secret door" with the hinges showing. This time, I made a slight modification to the edge of the door with the hinges and realized that the wood was butting up to the door jamb wood on wood, causing the motor to work extra hard to close those last few degrees of swing to 0-degrees. What I did was two-fold.A) I decided to slightly chamfer my door edges shaving back on an angle the door's hinge edge so it closes with the same seamless gap it had before, but there is now a bit of room across the entire jamb edge. This reduced the stress on the closing edge dramatically and now the door practically snaps closed every time. I also adjusted my lever arms a bit.B) I bought a different DC power supply to play with the voltage/current. Yes, the power supply that is supplied with the unit is very cheap and weak. In fact the Dome power supply sent to me on purchase #3 quit working less than 5 minutes after I got it... and no, I won't knock off a star for that because I don't like their power supply anyway and this review is about the motor. For a power supply, I use this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MT5WVCG/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 purchased through amazon. It will do about 36Watts and covers 5V, 6V, 7.5V, 9V, 12V, 13.5V and 15V and has Amps of capacity; this motor only needs a little under 0.5A at 12V and I didn't want to worry about power. As for which voltages work with these Dome Water Valves, ALL of the voltages from 7.5V and up work. Here are the results:5V, 6V setting did not work at all... no z-wave, no motor function.Z-wave and motor worked for all other settings of this power supply...7.5V setting worked fine, slowest motor action but better torque than the 12V setting.9V setting worked great, still slower motor action but the best torque. Better than 12V setting.12V setting... worked well, even a tad better than their el-cheapo supply sent with the unit (no current sag).13.5V setting... faster than 12V and torque about the same as 12V.15V setting... fastest motor speed but reduced starting torque.Note that for this golden power supply even the 15V setting had up to 2.4Amps available so the motor was able to take however much current it needed.For the projector door, placed right in front of a projector hanging in the closet of the next room, one of my favorite special effects is opening/closing the door with the projector turned on. As the door opens and closes, the light on the screen from the projector rises and falls, washing across the vertical length of the screen as you hear the quiet whir of this motor... it's awesome... especially at a slower speeds/better torque achievable with the 7.5V and 9V settings.The Roomba cave door works in a similar fashion to the projector door only the hinges are on the top of the door so the door opens up. I didn't want the Roomba tripping over the door on it's way out of the cave ;). For the door of the Roomba cave, quick speed of opening/closing is preferable so I use 13.5V on that power supply. Anyway, 5 stars! Great product. Versatile unit. I have a couple of automation's planned for the walk-in-closet but don't know if this motor will be appropriate yet... I think I need a lead-screw mechanism. Anyway, for opening closing small doors, this is the unit you want.

Update: With Wink 6 this Dome valve is natively supported. It installs as Dome and works flawlessly. I stand by the 5 star rating, this is a great valve. With a single switch it will enable shutting off if ANY water sensors detect a leak. Otherwise it is simple to create a robot to do this, which is what I did, to be safe. Plus my robot will message and email me an alert.Update: the latest update to the Wink Hub 2 seems to have addressed the compatibility. I added the device as a "light switch" and it changed it automatically to a Plumbing+Valve "Valve" with alerts for "Doesn't full open/close" and "Offline". From what I can tell it is fully supported, so my review has been changed to 5 stars!!! Technically, it is paired as a "LeakSMART" valve, not a Done, but the functionality is all there, so why do I care if it calls it a wrong brand? Follow my instructions, for now, to pair it as a light switch, and it will automatically update it to a LeakSMART valve.If I knew it was their fault they didn't work with wink I would give them 2 stars, but since I don't know why they don't work with wink I am giving them 4, and if they worked with Wink I would give them a 5 star review. For the actual product this thing is 5 stars. But, the home automation market is a mess, with so many brands and bridges and systems, and they don't all work together. So, a company like wink comes and solves the problem, until now everything I bought we'd fully supported by Wink. Now, I am able to use this with my Wink setup, as a generic Z-wave switch, but it should be fully supported like most other things are.Now, this thing is pretty slick. It mounts to your piping with two metal straps, and that's it for installation. I just happen to have an outlet right next to my valve which makes life easy, too. It had a control arm that sits on the valve arm, and mine is a quarter turn ball valve. You set it on, and when it is active it moves the valve like you were turning it by hand.You can no longer move the valve by hand, you either use your home automation setup or you use the controls on the top of the unit to open and close the main.I paired this to my wink setup as a generic z-wave switch. "On" means water flows and "Off" means the water is shut off. It works perfect like this, but th Wink app puts control of the switch under my "Lights" along with my Fireplace switch. I would ding Wink for not having a generic switch tab for things that are not actually lights, but everything else they do is so cool I cannot bring myself to ding them.That's it, clicking the switch triggers this unit to open and close the water main. It looks nice and sturdy and if you mount it firmly you should have no issues with using this.I created a robot that will trigger shutting off the water main if my leak sensors detect a leak. It will also message and email me that a leak was found, but this could be a life saver if I ever have a nasty leak and the leak sensors work as expected.Like I said, I give the valve a 5 star rating, except they don't natively work with Wink, so I ding them to 4. If this changes in the future I will come back and fix my rating.

Installed the Dome water shut off valve 10 days ago. It worked good initially, it connected to wink very easily. I tested it that first day a couple times seemed great did all it was advertised to do. Turned my water main on and off quickly and easily. Then a couple days ago wink said it was disconnected and I shrugged it off as a lost Z wave connection. It happens sometimes with Z-wave and usually fixes itself. When it didn't, I checked it and the unit was dead. Power light out, checked circuit and power was good, tried to reset unit it wouldn't it was just just dead. I called customer service and they had me do stuff and then agreed it was dead. I was then instructed that a higher level adviser would call me in 2 days since this lower level phone technician could not resolve it. I'm annoyed I have to wait 2 more days but I will to see what they do to correct the situation. I have amazon prime so if they don't resolve my issue satisfactorily I can just return it to amazon. For $99 it should be a little more durable than this. To me that's a lot of money!!!!

Installed the product on a 1/2-inch water main. The product performs exactly as advertised. Using with a Wink hub-2. The motor is quite powerful: actuates the valve with no apparent effort.Just one little issue with the Wink app not always reporting valve position correctly. For example, if I accidentally press the close button twice, the app will show the valve as being open, but it will continue closing after the first press of the button, and remain closed despite the app reporting it's status as 'open'. But when one opens the app, everything is refreshed and status is correctly reported. Not sure whether this is a Wink or Dome issue In any event, it's a rather minor one as opening and closing a water main is not something one does every day, not even every month...

The media could not be loaded. The package arrived surprisingly fast. The unit is smaller than I expected and that's actually good. My ball valve is brand new, so it moves easily, but I tested the unit before installing it and have to admit, it is strong. The arm is about the same length as the handle on the valve, which is great as my valve is very close to the wall. The unit paired nicely with my z-wave Vera controller (just put the controller in the inclusion mode and press the only button on the thing 3 times). After adding a scene it now automatically closes the water main whenever any of my water sensors detects a leak.

The media could not be loaded. Had to buy a new 3/4" ball valve because that actual house shut off is too hard for the motor to push. Simple to install but you have to take some time to align the motor to the valve so when it closes it is not pushing too far causing the motor to skip.UPDATE: reduce to 1 star. after 2 weeks of use, the motor started having problem closing (see the video, it is hard to describe). This is not something I would use to shut off water in an emergency.

The media could not be loaded. We had water damage a few weeks ago that could have been prevented if we had an automated water shut-off, so I really wanted something like this. I already had a Vera Plus controller and a Dome leak sensor, so I went for this product.Since our water valve is very close the the wall and sitting a little bit backward on the pipe, I was not sure the device would fit or would be able to operate the valve correctly, but the way it's designed gives room for some imperfection and in the end I didn't have to change anything to my valve nor my pipe setup.However, I had to change the control arm plates configuration so that they are closer to the bolt of the ball valve, since the device seems to be designed for bigger valve handles; the instruction manual doesn't mention that possibility, but in my case that's what worked, because otherwise the handle would slip out of the control arm because of the awkward angle at which they are facing each other.It took a few tries for my Vera Plus controller and the device to connect, but in the end everything worked out. I added a rule so that the valve automatically shuts off if the leak sensor detects water, so now I should sleep better I hope :)Also, I can now ask my Google Assistant to shut the water off if needed without having to go to the basement :)The only complaint I could make is that I find it a bit slow; maybe more speed would mean less strength, so I don't know if that's a valid complaint, though. And compared to the time it would otherwise take to 1) witness the water damage, and 2) run to the valve and manually shut it off, I guess the lack of speed is not that bad a bargain after all :)

Nothing to say... this device was easy to install and to configure; for this, I followed the steps supplied within the package. I add some picture of my final configuration with the Android SmartThings Apps which contain a “Home Monitoring” feature.Before, ensure that the Dome Home Automation Water Shut-Off Valve and your water leak sensors are correctly set up inside SmartThings Apps; (bullets 1, 2 & 3)1) Dome Valve device inside SmartThings Apps2) 1st water Leak Sensor inside SmartThings Apps3) 2nd water Leak Sensor inside SmartThings Apps4) Open the drawer menu of the SmartThings Apps5) Click on the ‘SmartApps’ configuration menu6) Click on ‘+ Add SmartApp’ button7) Click on ‘SmartThings Home Monitor’ button8) Click ‘Next’9) Click on ‘Leaks’ button10) Enable ‘Use all moisture sensors’11) Click ‘Next’12) Enable ‘Push notification’13) Click on ‘Close valves’ button14) Select ‘Dome Valve’ and click ‘Done’ (bullet #0)15) Ensure that ‘Close valves’ is configured to ‘All selected’ and click ‘Done’16) Ensure that ‘Leaks’ is configured to ‘Monitor for water leaks’ and click ‘Done’17) Ensure that now you have ‘SmartThings Home Monitor’ into the SmartApps and click the ‘Left Arrow’18) Ensure that the Water Drop Icon is green.Good Luck,E.G.