You never know when a long power outage or a malfunction of the float or sump pump is going to result in basement water damage. So it’s a good idea to have some type of backup or early alarm system. Our home builder tried to sell us a proprietary system that costs almost $3,000 and has a yearly $100 subscription fee. The system is only sold to this particular builder, which seemed sketchy, and doesn’t have any API access to the data.

I found PumpSpy, which is a Kalamazoo, Michigan company, because people have been able to integrate the data in to Home Assistant. I bought The Installation Bundle, which costs $667.

I took off our cover and cleaned out some of the debris.

I had to make a minor adjustment to the setup, by splitting the two floats for the backup pump to use separate pipe clamps. With many floats integrated in to the primary sump pump now, it seems like this should be a standard step.

Everything else was smooth sailing by following their installation video and included instructions.

I connected the system to WiFi and setup their iOS app.

I think the entire install took me just over two hours. I love the piece of mind knowing we have a backup system in place.