IQ Water Valve app card and rules

I just installed the IQ valve and am having trouble building usful rules, I’m also curious how to add the card to the app.

I currently have three flood sensors. One hardwired, and two Qolsys 319.5 flood sensors. Will be adding a second hadwired flood and two Power G floods in comimg days. When building rules my only options are “any water sensor" in alarm or the one hardwired sensor, the two 319.5 flood sensors simply do not appear at all. The current hardwired sensor is the one sensor I do not want to include to shut off the main water valve as it is just for a sump pump.

Not sure what I may be doing wrong or if this is an oversight that hasn’t been fixed yet being a somewhat new product and Qolsys historically being quite slow to integrate thing’s fully. Thanks in advance for any assistance

It looks like you did not have Water Management enabled on your plan. I have added that for you. You can also adjust your plan at any time in the system manager here.

You should now have the ability to view the water card, and those flood sensors should be selectable in water management rules. Let me know if you are not seeing this option.

Appreciate it, I forget all the different pages to change thing’s on apparently.

Still the only selectable water sensor is the hardwired sensor label “basement flood" however.

No worries, it can get a bit convoluted with the way that Alarm.com implements water management.

Regarding the rules, it looks like those other sensors are selectable for rules, however to clarify, because of how they are programmed the trigger event needs to be selected as Alarms, not Sensor Activity, when creating the rule.

The one wired sensor labeled as a water sensor is programmed as a no response type sensor, (sensor group 25), meaning it will never generate alarms. It can only be used in rules with sensor activity as the trigger.

The other two sensors are programmed as auxiliary water alarm sensors, (sensor group 38), which is a zone type which will result in an alarm whenever those sensors activate, regardless of arming state. They cannot be selected for normal sensor activity rules because they only ever generate alarms.

Most excellent, appreciate the explanation. That makes sense.

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