Aqara’s new DIY-ready smart water shutoff works in more smart homes with Matter

Aqara’s Smart Valve Controller T1 is now available, bringing an interoperable Matter-compatible valve controller enactment to the astute location for the archetypal time. The $69.99 T1 connects to your h2o shutoff valve truthful you tin run it remotely oregon unopen it disconnected automatically erstwhile a leak is detected.

The Aqara hub lets this T1 integrate with immoderate of the large astute location platforms, dissimilar immoderate pricier options from companies similar Moen, Kohler, and Belkin. Right now, lone Samsung and Home Assistant enactment astute valve controllers similar this, but that volition alteration arsenic others grow their Matter instrumentality support.

The T1 attaches to the lever oregon butterfly grip of astir household valves. Aqara says it’s “DIY-friendly arsenic it requires nary large modifications to existing plumbing” and has compatibility with half-inch, three-quarter-inch, and one-inch pipes.

Aqara says the T1 volition tally connected 4 AA batteries for up to 2 years. For automation, the institution besides makes a cheap leak sensor, oregon you tin usage a antithetic 1 that works with your preferred astute location level aft enactment is added.