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Generic valve entities

Sprinklers · Water

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1 report: 1 says it works.

Reported with 1 integration: Smart Irrigation.

What people report

IntegrationIn Home AssistantIn Apple HomeWhat they saidSource
Smart IrrigationWorksBlueprint supports valve entities; per-zone valve confirmation and resend settings added
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Follow-up to the discussion on device profiles: the generic option you asked for instead of a profile layer. The wait for a valve to report that it opened (8 s, or 30 s with resends at 10 and 20 s with the full controller) and that it closed (5 s) is the same for every valve. A cloud valve confirms through its vendor's servers and may need longer than that, in which case a healthy open ends as `valve_did_not_open`. Gardena's also counts every command, resends included, against a weekly quota of 700 calls. The resends can also open the valve after the run has given up. Reproduced with a …

Excerpt saved from GitHub on 2026-10-23.

PR #927 · 2026-10

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In ReReHome

Once Home Assistant’s HomeKit Bridge shares it, this device reaches Apple Home as a HomeKit accessory behind your Home Assistant bridge, so ReReHome shows and controls it like any other.

Identifiers

BrandGeneric
Modelvalve
CategorySprinklers