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Ubiquiti is pretty good about HA integration, so I decided to take a chance buying one of their new line of sensors. It's a door/window sensor that also senses motion, light, temperature, humidity, and (somehow) leaks.

You either need their proprietary (boo) superlink hub or a U6 series access point for the sensors to work. I have the latter. Everything gets reported to HA immediately as expected. My only complaint is that you're unlikely to need or want every single sensor in the same place. I still don't know how the leak detection is supposed to work on a door sensor. It uses an uncommon battery size, and cramming all those sensors into a single package makes it an expensive purchase compared to other brands, especially if you purchase directly from Ubiquiti.

All in all it does what it's supposed to, and I suppose it's worth the cost if you need all those sensors in one place.

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[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

That is a weird combo. And designed to lock you into their ecosystem. Absolutely proprietary.

https://www.athom.tech/blank-1/bthome-door-contact-with-tempreture-and-humidiy-sensor

This one runs BTHome, part of the Open Home Foundation. I have two mmWave presence sensors from the same company. They offer tasmota and esphome firmwares for them, I chose ESPHome. It's been great.