GoveeLife Upgraded Smart Water Leak Detector 1s with 1804 ft Ultra-Long Range, WiFi Water Sensor with SMS/Email/APP Push and Sound Alarm,5-Year Battery Life, 5 Pack, Suit for Home, Basement, Kitchen

Installed them in Nov 2025 and haven’t had any issues with them. No false alarms and easy to install. App is user friendly and easy to navigate. The Insurance company approved it as a flood monitoring app. Battery still working. Small pods so you can hide them behind toilets or under furniture.

This Govee product appears to work as advertised. If you will allow me a few minutes of your time, I will ramble a bit and share my thoughts/experiences with this water leak detector product. I noticed other reviewers have had similar experiences as I. It took me awhile to make everything work (with the help of their customer service), but I finally did. First off, I'm being generous when I say their “user manual” is limited. Manufacturers must be competing to see who can create the smallest manual. Ink and paper must be very expensive, hence the small pages and tiny print. After downloading and installing their app, and paying close attention to the instructions, I managed to get the sensors paired with the gateway. As you add a new sensor, make sure you rename it to something that makes sense to you, like... “hot water heater”. After all the sensors are paired, you will see icons for each sensor when you open the app. Here's what they don't tell you... You MUST enable the gateway AND each individual sensor to send “email” alerts. In the gateway settings page I did turn on the “Email alert” and checked the “Send to account email” box, thinking this would turn on the email alerts. NOT enough. You have to do this for all sensors. Otherwise, no email alerts. Why? I don't know. Would you want some sensors NOT to alert you of a leak? Seems like setting the gateway to send alerts should have been enough. Test all sensors to make sure they are working and you are indeed receiving emails. You can test them by simply wetting your finger tip and wiping the contacts on the top of the sensor. They do make a loud shrill sound. You'll definitely hear it. To stop it, I just wiped the sensor against my shirt until the contacts were dry. Do all this testing in one location, then you can distribute them accordingly. I found an unused, and likely not to be used, outlet location to plug the gateway into. It is somewhat centrally located to all the sensors, and about 25 feet from my wifi router. All my sensors showed four bars of battery strength, except one. It showed only three. I installed new batteries in it to bring it up to four bars. Time will tell how long the batteries actually last. I'll monitor the sensor batteries from time to time, and when they drop to two bars, I may replace all the batteries just to be safe. It will be fun retrieving them given the location of a couple of them... like under the dishwasher and behind the washing machine. After disributing everything, I repeated the "wet finger" test on the sensors to ensure the walls and other stuff didn't interfere with their function. All was well. Now, although I was able to get the email alerts to work, I couldn't get the “text message” alerts to work. No text messages. Then I reached out to the Govee customer service (again), and they helped me. There is another “on” switch in the settings of the sensor called “Message alert”. I just missed it (was looking for a “Text alert”. My bad.) Anyway, after turning this switch on, and entering my cell phone number... it worked! As it turns out, you only have to turn the switch on for one sensor. All the other sensors will automatically be set up. Now... everything works great. Although they state otherwise, this system is working fine on my 5G home network. Also, the little book states “Ensure there are no obstructions between the gateway and the detector”. Don't know about this warning since “walls” and “appliances” would be considered “obstructions”. I have a sensor behind my washing machine, under the kitchen sink, under the dishwasher, and in the basement under the hot water heater. (I haven't placed one behind the refrigerator yet.) There are obviously walls, metal, and distance between the gateway and the sensors, and they all work fine. Now, I want to give a shout out to the Govee customer service team. While trying to get the email/text alerts to work, I exchanged a couple of emails with Mandy, and she was very responsive and courteous. Wish all customer service representatives were this way.

We JUST purchased these after we found some water in the basement. We weren’t sure where it was coming from. Tonight, this device saved us from total disaster. We discovered the water leaking right away and were able to find the source of our problem. This is money well spent! Super easy to set up. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!

Bought the 5 pack kit plus another 5 and had them all connected and set up in minutes. They’re SUPER loud when they go off, and I love that it all works in my existing Govee app.

If having trouble enabling your 2.4ghz band. I have a deco m5 mesh unit for my Arris TM3402 router. The mesh unit was using the 5ghz. showing only my wifi name. I went to the deco app on iPhone, then "advanced" which showed both bands and I de-selected the 5 ghz. Now I was able to successfuly pair the hub to the iPhone. I added the sensors (sub_units) renamed them laundry sink/etc. Note: I had to use my fingernail to push the senson button as my fingers were too fat to depress the button. Once done you can switch the iPhone back to 5 ghz. The leak sensors connect back the Hub. The Hub connects over Wifi 2.4 to your Router/AP, and then goes out to the Govee Cloud. When their is an leak, their Cloud will send you an alert from their Cloud, to their app on your phone, whether your phone is on 2.4, 5G or Cellular.