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Research profile · last verified 2026-08-28StreamLabs Monitor
⚠ Similar names, different products: ⚠ StreamLabs sells THREE differently-priced products under one family name on one storefront — Scout ($129, a point sensor), Monitor ($389, this record, whole-home usage + leak alerts, no shutoff), and Control ($999, adds an automatic shutoff valve) — and a buyer skimming the name alone can land on the wrong one. ⚠ 'StreamLabs' is also unrelated to the identically-spelled live-streaming software company Streamlabs (streamlabs.com, owned by Logitech), which dominates a plain web search for the name.
Exactly which product this is[1]
- Model number
- Not established
- Generation
- Not established
- Region this page covers
- US
- Also sold or listed as
- StreamLabs Smart Home Water Monitor · StreamLabs Water Monitor · StreamLabs Smart Home Water Monitor Leak Detector
“Not established” means we have not sourced that detail yet — not that the product has no model number, generation or regional variant. We publish the gap rather than filling it.
Compatibility
| Ecosystem | Support | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Alexa | Doesn't workVerified: does not work with this ecosystem[2] | StreamLabs' own current FAQ states plainly: integration with 'Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit, and others—is in progress and will be available in the future.' Recorded as an explicit not-yet, not an unverified blank. ⚠ Older third-party listings (including a legacy Amazon product page) describe Alexa compatibility from the pre-2021, RWC-owned era of this product line; the FAQ is the current first-party statement and is trusted over stale retail copy. |
| Google Home | PartialPartial support — see the catch[2] | StreamLabs' FAQ states 'StreamLabs products currently work with Google Home' but documents no capability detail beyond that on the FAQ itself; other StreamLabs material describes a voice-set home/away mode toggle via Google Assistant. Recorded partial because a real, named integration exists but no source establishes it carries leak or usage-alert push notifications the way the app does — assume voice/away-mode convenience, not a notification channel, until confirmed otherwise. |
| Apple Home | Doesn't workVerified: does not work with this ecosystem[2] | Same FAQ statement as Alexa: HomeKit integration is 'in progress' and not available today. No Matter certification claimed anywhere. |
| SmartThings | Doesn't workVerified: does not work with this ecosystem[2] | Not named in StreamLabs' FAQ integrations list at all — the FAQ's in-progress roadmap covers Alexa and HomeKit specifically and does not mention SmartThings, so this is an absence rather than a documented no. |
| Home Assistant | PartialPartial support — see the catch[5] | Community-maintained (not StreamLabs-official), Cloud Polling per Home Assistant's own integration docs — it exposes daily/monthly/yearly water-usage sensors and away-mode status/control. The real limit isn't the integration, it's the account underneath it: Home Assistant's own docs state the StreamLabs Water API itself 'is not free, you must have a StreamPlus subscription level that enables API access', and the API key must be requested directly from StreamLabs (not an OAuth flow). So this integration is real and reasonably capable, but it is paywalled one layer up from the device. |
Protocols: WIFI[1]
What it can do[5]
You can tell it to
None documented by the vendor
It reports
- Water flow
- Leak detected
- Google Home: Voice-level convenience (home/away mode) per StreamLabs' own material; no source documents leak-alert push through Google Assistant.
- Home Assistant: Usage sensors and an away-mode toggle, gated behind a paid StreamPlus subscription for API access — see subscription.notes.
Deliberately empty actions: no shutoff valve exists on this SKU (that's the $999 'Control' product), so this device measures and reports rather than actuates — a leak here ends in an alert, not an intervention. The home/away mode toggle StreamLabs and its Home Assistant integration both expose has no matching term in the capability vocabulary and is recorded in prose (integrations catches) rather than claimed structurally.
Listed capabilities are what we could establish from vendor documentation. An ability missing here is unestablished — not necessarily absent.
Subscription reality[2][3]
◐ Works without a subscription: Yes, but material features need a plan.
- Free: Real-time push leak alerts (leaks as small as 0.25 GPM), Drip Detect alerts, Smart Alerts learning mode, Water usage charts — current day/month/year, Up to 2 monitored locations, up to 5 Scouts per location, Last 3 alerts in history
Vendor account required: Yes — you must create a vendor account to use it.[2]
The free 'Standard' plan is not a stripped demo — StreamLabs' own plan-comparison page shows it includes the same core leak detection, Smart Alerts and Drip Detect features as the paid tier; push notifications work on both. The $5.99/mo or $59/yr 'StreamPlus' tier adds email + text notification channels (Standard is push-only), more locations/Scouts, and up to 2 years of history instead of the last 3 alerts. ⚠ ONE REAL GATE: Home Assistant's official integration documents that StreamLabs' developer API itself requires a StreamPlus subscription — 'Access to the StreamLabs Water API is not free, you must have a StreamPlus subscription level that enables API access' — so the app experience is fully free, but third-party/local automation access is not.
Maintenance reality
- Batteries:
- Works without the internet: No — the core function depends on the vendor's servers, so an outage takes it with them.[1]
- Mains-powered via an included universal power supply (100–240VAC in, 5.9V/0.6A out) on a 10-foot cord, with 25 ft and 50 ft extension cables sold separately — not battery-run, so there is no battery-life figure to record. Attaches externally to an existing straight, uninterrupted pipe run (minimum 5 inches) with included zip-ties; no cutting or plumbing. Fits 3/4" and 1" CTS pipe in copper (Types M & L), PEX and CPVC. Indoor use only; rated water-temperature range 40–80°F, max operating pressure 232 psi.
- Security updates: No security-update support date is on record for this model yet. We haven't yet checked whether StreamLabs publishes one, so this is a gap in our research — not a statement about the manufacturer.
The catch
This is the monitor-only tier of a three-product StreamLabs line, and the name alone won't tell you that: Scout ($129) is a point sensor, Monitor ($389, this record) is whole-home usage + leak alerts with no valve, and Control ($999) adds the automatic shutoff. If you want the water to actually turn itself off, this is the wrong SKU. Smart-home integration is thinner than the brand's own older marketing implies — StreamLabs' current FAQ says Alexa and Apple HomeKit are 'in progress', not live, and only Google Home is stated as working today, with no documented notification capability on the voice side. The most capable third-party path is Home Assistant's community integration, but StreamLabs itself gates API access behind the $5.99/mo (or $59/yr) StreamPlus plan — so a household that wants this device to talk to anything beyond the StreamLabs app should budget for that subscription, even though the app's own leak detection is fully free. The company behind the product also changed hands: it now operates as a subsidiary of the insurer Chubb, not Reliance Worldwide Corporation, which is the company that originally built and launched it.
Who it's for
A household that wants whole-home leak and usage visibility without cutting into a pipe or hiring a plumber — it clips onto an existing straight run of copper, PEX or CPVC with zip-ties and reads flow acoustically. Good fit for renters or anyone who wants to try monitoring before committing to a shutoff-valve install. Look elsewhere if you want the water physically shut off on a leak (StreamLabs' own Control, or a dedicated shutoff-valve product, does that — this one doesn't) or if Apple Home, SmartThings, or a live Alexa integration matters today. Home Assistant households can get real usage sensors and away-mode control, but only by paying for StreamPlus.
Sources & method
Numbered sources below back the facts marked with the matching number above. This is a research profile: compiled from manufacturer documentation, certification registries, and published testing — we state facts, not verdicts, and we have not physically tested this unit. How we work →
- [1] streamlabswater.com/products/streamlabs-water-monitor (first-party product page), read 2026-08-28 — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-28Backs: Price, Market availability, Research status, Batteries, Required hub or bridge, Power source, Protocols, Wi-Fi bands it can use, Works without the internet, Product identity
- [2] streamlabswater.com/pages/faqs (first-party FAQ), read 2026-08-28 — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-28Backs: Amazon Alexa compatibility, Google Home compatibility, Apple Home compatibility, SmartThings compatibility, Vendor account required, Subscription
- [3] streamlabswater.com/pages/streamplus (first-party plan-comparison page), read 2026-08-28 — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-28Backs: Subscription
- [4] streamlabswater.com/pages/about-us (first-party About page), read 2026-08-28 — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-28Backs: Service status
- [5] home-assistant.io/integrations/streamlabswater (Home Assistant core integration documentation), read 2026-08-28 — vendor-page research, verified 2026-08-28Backs: Home Assistant compatibility, Capabilities
Compatibility and lifecycle information reflects the last-verified date above and can change without notice (firmware updates, cloud-service changes, discontinuations). It is provided as-is, for information — verify with the manufacturer before purchasing. Spot an error? Tell us and we'll fix it. Full terms: Terms of Service.