Are there water softeners with HA intergration? [EU]

[Timm (Tim)]

Hey all,

We are looking for a water softener and I would love it when we can intergrate is with Home Assistant. I thinks sensors for water flow, cycle and salt level would be minimum extra input would be bonus.

Are there know softeners that have an integration or an (open) API? I’ve looked at the Pentair Foleo. But I cannot find info about the API or an existing integration. Other brands would be fine too I guess.

[WallyR (Wally)]

I know of a vendor called BWT and there might be some integration possible.
I found this thread.

BWT - Best Water Tech­nology - Support

We search for a Solution, for the BTW product´s: Connecting over GSM, WLAN, LAN and BWT Best Water Home App Product: https://www.bwt.com/de-de/produkte/perlwasseranlagen/bwt-perla/ Thanks all

[Timm (Tim)]

@WallyR

know of a vendor called BWT

Oh, wow. That’s about four times the local prices. Thanks though. I will look into it.

[Edwin_D]

There is a thread with some diy solutions:

Salt sentry: Water softener monitoring device

Just thought I would share how I have integrated this sensor in to my automations. Perhaps it can be used by others too, or serve for inspiration. In short: This automation monitors the salt tank level using sensor.salt_tank_percentage . It triggers warnings and critical alarms, sending notifications via notify.notify and notify.smtp_microsoft365 and creates Microsoft Tasks using o365.new_task for a defined O365 sensor. The automation also keeps track whether a warning or a critical alarm …