Ecolink Intelligent Technology Z-Wave Featuring Gold Plated Components, White & Brown (TILT-ZWAVE2-ECO)

I am relatively new to home automation and Z-Wave, and often have problems with getting devices to associate with my network. The methods of associating Z-Wave devices are as varied as the devices themselves! It's hard to believe that there are no standards for connecting devices, as it would be very simple to accomplish. Anyway, before I begin a diatribe on the subject, my point was that this device was very simple to include in my network, and worked the first time and every time thereafter. No complications at all; I created a simple notification to send me a text when the garage door opens or closes. I wanted to verify that this device would work reliably before investing in equipment for the next step - automating the operation of the door from my home (Vera 3) Z-Wave system. From what I have read that should be fairly simple. Together with this sensor, I can use a dry contact switch like the Linear FS-20 so that if the garage door is left open, it will automatically close itself after a user-defined period of time. The door can also be closed on demand from my iPhone (or any smart phone). I understand the trick to the FS-20 switch is setting up a trigger right after it is activated to turn it back off immediately, or it will block the original local switch from operating (wired in parallel with garage door switch). Beyond that small issue, it should be easy to set-up. This sensor will indicate when the door is open, and that triggers a timer (scene created in Vera 3) which will activate the FS-20 to close the garage door after whatever delay is set. None of the safety features are bypassed as the original wiring is still intact. For those of you to whom this is very basic automation, you're probably laughing by now! Most of the reason I am writing this much detail is for the benefit of other newbies out there who may still be struggling a bit and could use some help. This sensor is a perfect solution, as it is a much better option than modifying a door/window sensor to accomplish the same goal. Going the modification route is not too difficult, but does have moving parts and relies on realignment of the sensor every time after operation. With this tilt sensor there are no moving parts (except internally); the sensor mounts as high up on the door as practical, and as soon as it senses the door angle change, it can notify or trigger whatever event is desired. You don't even need to screw it to the door; it comes with double-sided tape which is more than adequate to hold up the sensor. The only caveat there is that in extreme temps, either very cold or very hot, the tape could potentially fail. Until somebody out there decides to package this sensor with a momentary switch that releases without having to create a trigger, this is the simplest and cleanest solution I have seen. Slap in the battery, quickly pair it to your system, tape it to your garage door, and you're in business! No measuring, aligning, building, etc. required. Add one of the available contact switches out there, and you have a complete door sensor / remote controlled operating solution. I will update this post as soon as I can get the relay switch purchased, installed and hopefully working! Until then, at least I don't have to wonder if the door was left open! Hopefully I'll remember to check my phone app before I get too far down the road! Cheers!

This is a fantastic product to install on your garage to let you know if your door is open or closed. No longer wondering if I shut the garage door when I left and no more driving back to check. It does connect to the Ring app as follows: Here's how to add a Z-Wave sensor to the Ring Alarm app: Open the Ring app and go to Set Up Device Select Security Device and then Sensor Scroll to the bottom and select Add Manually Click the Z-Wave logo and then Add Press the button to pair the device The Ecolink Garage Door Tilt Sensor is compatible with the Ring Alarm Security System. Some recommend using the included "security" screw to keep the sensor from coming off the mounting bracket. Take care to mount as suggested like my picture. I used the sticky 2-sided mounting tape to cleaned door area. Works flawlessly - don't believe the posts that say you can't do it.

Was looking for some way I could see if my garage doors were open or closed from my RING App and get base station, keypad, and phone app alerts and this works. First off I attempted to figure out if this version (2.0 ECO) vs. (2.5 ECO) listed on "works with RING" website - this one does and is about $11 less expensive and has trigger contact terminal so if you'd like to add a magnetic contact at the bottom of the door you certainly could. Since I have two garage doors I'll be purchasing another. My main concern was if this would show as fault and cleared in the history of the RING App along with push notifications / base station / keypad alert sounds which it also does. Though I've not tried to add this to a "profile" (home / away) I'd be surprised if it does - I'm not expecting it to - since this is a z-wave sensor and is said to work with smart things I could probably trigger other actions (such as turning on a camera, etc.) - again, for me this is not a deal breaker and the fact that I can look at the RING App history is helpful to see when the garage door was opened and closed. To add this to my RING Alarm I simply tapped on the "+" (add) button and selected "works with RING" devices - there wasn't a QR code and I didn't use my camera to find the device - I simply put the included battery in the sensor and hit "find device" I tilted the sensor once or twice and the app found and added it - really couldn't be easier - in contrast to other DIY alarm systems I've used in the past it worked, worked out of the box and I didn't have to add/remove/re-add. I changed the name to something that was more meaningful, added it to a "room" (garage) and set the notification on "open" and "close" - at some point I'll likely turn this off when we're in the warmer months when our garage is opened and closed several times a day. This is a good size sensor - it's not too large and not tiny either. It uses a CR123 - I'll update this review if it seems to "chew through" batteries but Z-Wave is generally pretty good about battery usage and I don't expect to have to replace it that often. I'll also report on if this sensor stays connected as other 3rd party sensor tend to disconnect or don't have very good range. My garage doors are about 25-35 feet away from the alarm base with a drywall wall in between. Installation is simple and straight forward - I had a tilt sensor for my garage door opener before this one (RYOBI) but the app stopped working after a legal action with another manufacturer so I used the mounting screw holes with the included hardware of the new sensor along with the double stick tape. You will likely want to use the "security" screw (a tiny phillips) to keep the sensor form coming off of the mounting bracket as the tabs aren't that secure (IMO) - you'll just have to remember that there's a screw there when you replace the battery. I should also mention that I have a first generation (non "PRO") RING base station - I don't know if there are any incompatibilities with the newer version but from what I've read the older sensors work with the newer base and vice versa.

Eco-link has put out a nice sensor that can measure the tilt of something like a garage door. It's a dedicated sensor that can only be used for things like measure the tilt angle of a garage door. If you've used the Samsung multi-sensor, it's similar except without the contact sensor capability. To install you use the double sided sticky tape and put it on your garage door, pair to your Z-wave hub and set the open/close states. I use it for some automations and helps let me know if I left the garage door open. Overall, it's a nice add for your Z-wave automation system. Think the sensor could be made to look nicer aesthetically and smaller, but overall has been working well.

Update: Downgraded from 2 stars to 1 star, and changed title of review. It's been a little over 6 months since I bought the Ecolink Tilt Sensor and put it into service. Unfortunately, it became less and less reliable over time, with more and more false positives. At this point, when it says "hey the garage door is open!", now about 50% of the time the garage door turns out NOT to be open. This makes it worthless, because as you'd expect, nobody pays attention to the alerts anymore. Several other reviewers had mentioned this thing becoming less reliable over time, but as frustrated as I was with the 97% original accuracy, even I didn't expect it to descend to 50% within 6 months. (As mentioned in the earlier review, it started out not completely accurate, but still usable, at 97%.) In case there is suspicion that maybe I'm using this thing in Point Barrow on an industrial door, I'm not. I had very garden variety usage and expectations here-- our garage door opens maybe 2-3 times a day and I'm in a relatively temperate and dry place-- and it's mounted inside-- so this thing had every opportunity to work fine. I rarely feel compelled to write negative reviews, but, man, this sensor was a terrible disappointment. I'm replacing it with a SmartThings Multi sensor which I hope will do better, and this thing is going in the recycle bin. Original review: <<Too unreliable for security usage. Like asking "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" to watch your door.>> I bought this to use with our SmartThings system, and detect garage door open-ness. On the plus side, it did integrate easily with SmartThings. It was easy to install. The indicator light showing what state it's in, works. It makes a nice, soft, decorous "click" noise when it changes state. The design is appealing-- something about it made me just plain want to like it immediately. Also on the plus side, about 97% of the time it accurately reports whether it is in the closed state or open state. The down side is, I can only say "97% of the time". And that other 3% of the time is a huge problem. Since I added this sensor to our system, it's happened about twice a month that the sensor has reported the door wasn't closed, leading to panic. But sure enough, it turned out every time that the door was closed, contrary to what the sensor said. I feel at first like a bit of a whiner complaining-- after all 97% is an A in school, right? But there are some applications where 97% just isn't good enough. For instance, imagine a brand of car brakes or tires operated correctly 97% of the time, but a mere 3% of the times you were driving to work they would fail. Or imagine a Pasteurizing machine in use at a juice factory, that 97% of the time, successfully killed all the germs in the juice but maybe 3% of the time there was a small chance there would be botulism contamination. Obviously, nobody would buy either of these. Similarly, a sensor that is used in a security setting really needs to be bulletproof. 97% just doesn't cut it. The problem with regularly occurring false positives, is it becomes like "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". So far, every time this sensor has warned that the sky was falling, it turned out to be malarkey, and this happens often enough that nobody pays attention to the alerts anymore. Now, I should say one plus on this front-- I don't believe I've had a false negative with this sensor yet-- only false positives. I'd certainly rather the sensor erred on the side of telling me the door was open when it isn't, than the opposite, not bothering to tell me if it is open when it really is. But I have a sinking feeling maybe the only reason I haven't had a false negative yet is that there isn't much chance for it to occur, and that eventually it should happen. I had read somewhere that there were some questions about this sensor's reliability, but I am surprised to find it to be true, since it's a mechanical sensor which I would ordinarily associate with being reliable. In fact, my rate of false positives is about what I've read other people experience with this sensor. I guess I should have known what to expect based on the reviews I'd read... but this is widely the most suggested dedicated garage door sensor to use with SmartThings. All I can guess is the mechanism inside is either not well made, or not a good design in the first place. Or maybe I'm missing something-- maybe all garage door sensors are widely known to be notoriously unreliable or something like that. But it's difficult for me to imagine how anyone could use them if they were all as unreliable as this one. It's difficult for me to come up with an application I'd recommend this sensor for. Maybe controlling the garage lights-- like "turn off the garage lights when I leave"-- or "turn down the thermostat when I leave" or "turn on the stairway light when I arrive". Something where, if it fails to do it 3% of the time it wouldn't be a problem. PS, on a side note, it's worth pointing out that this isn't a true "tilt" sensor-- it isn't measuring "tilt". It's measuring whether the sensor is in a vertical or horizontal state, but it has no awareness of any gradation between those. For instance it can't determine "I'm tilted, but only at 45 degrees". In itself, this isn't a deal breaker-- if the sensor were more reliable that'd be good enough for garage door open-ness detection. Of course, since it can't even detect "open" vs "closed" reliably, it isn't.

This device seems to work about half the time I tilt it and I'm not entirely sure why. I use a Aeon Labs Z-Stick Series 2 with the latest firmware (3.07), InControl (3.112.5243.19815), and have three other 2gig CT100 thermostats on the network which seem to be polled fine. I've experimented with some of the properties available in InControl and have still had inconsistent states reported. If I had to guess why it doesn't work I'd say the device only stays "on" for a short amount of time once it is "tilted" and if it isn't polled shortly near that time then it will no longer report a status of "closed or open". There are other reviews which seem to allude to the same conclusion with my same configuration. I'll be getting a SmartThings hub instead of this InControl/Z-stick combo (don't waste your time with this combo) soon so I'll try to remember to report back to see if that hub does any better. -- UPDATE -- The SmartThings hub and this device have worked flawlessly so far. I opted for this device instead of the SmartThings multi sensor because according to the documentation the battery life on this item is 5-8yrs and I really only needed the tilt sensor for my garage so I saved a few bucks by purchasing this item instead. I'd highly recommend this thing so far if you are using the SmartThings hub, it works well.

I purchased one of these to test, and after successful testing bought two additional for use with monitoring my garage doors using Home Assistant. These connected easily to the nearest Z-Wave node and were simple to attach to the garage door. They only "wake up" to report a status change, so they don't use much power, but you get more than just open/close. It also reports battery percentage, door cover status, and security screw state. Paired with a Zooz universal relay (B096LLL1C6) and Home Assistant you have complete monitoring and control of your garage doors without any cloud dependence. Pro tip - make a note of the battery type and set an automation up to notify you of the battery type when it gets to low battery state. That way two or three years from now when it finally gets a low battery you'll get an useful reminder.

The unit gives false alarms. But it is fixable with some simple and cheap modifications. Just buy some cheap mercury on-off switches and install one parallel to the ballbearing based tilt sensor. The mods fits well inside the original housing and you will never have a false alarm again. I have purchased 2 of these now. The first one started giving false alarms after around one year of usage. The problem is with the ballbearing on-off switch it used to detect tilt. At vertical position the ball falls on 2 contact points closing a circuit, and it should signal the unit that the garage door is closed. The connection goes bad after some time, so the unit will 'think' the door is open when it is not. I had 2 mid-night false alarms in which I had to clear every room in my house with a loaded gun. No need to say I don't enjoy it. The unit passed the replacement policy. I thought I was just unlucky so I bought a new one. As to the first one, I purchased a $2 magnetic switch and re-purposed it as my fence gate open-close sensor. BTW, this unit has built in extension ports which makes this re-purpose very easy. It is not rated for outdoor, but mine worked outdoors fine with simple rain and sunlight shielding from a block of wood. The second unit started giving off false alarm after just 2 months. I realized this might be a common issue. So I did some research online, made the mod, and never had a false alarm since. NOTE to manufacture: please use the mercury switch. If you have environmental concerns, use higher quality ballbearing switches or put two cheap ones in parallel.

J'avais bon espoir de pouvoir remonter les infos d'inclinaison de ma porte de garage. Il est impossible d'appairer cet équipement sur Jeedom (quelque soit le mode utilisé). Pour moi, cet équipement est incompatible. Ttès déçus

Have a aeotec smart hub, setup was easy and straight forward, have two garage doors and can now see the status of them. Setup using smarthings.

Does not work

Great zwave door sensor. Using for garage and very accurate.

Paired first try and works as intended