Anyone using temperature sensors in their house? I have the mocreo one in my freezers, but I am trying to do some monitoring, like under my sink and in my garage and don't think it'll be accurate at the temps I'm looking at.
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What will you be using to monitor them?
I'm going to be transitioning to home assistant and using dirty cheap esp32 boards with thermocouples for decently accurate temp monitoring.
Home assistant is my ideal setup cuz I'm intending to package ha for start9
That's how I'll be running it, too.
Do you see someone working on packaging it up already? I was gunna start once these 2 I got in the queue get released
I believe it was nostr:nprofile1qqsw9xwdz6f28yengrqhq4m4ff38rr2y74lxvdgu4mhlxu3z73e3u3gpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsa8k03y that recommended Yolink devices. I have a few and they work well.
Sure, I have several thermometers (inside, outside, and pool) and all the heat pumps and water heaters have thermostats
I have two Govee temperature sensors in my chest freezer and upright freezer. They seem to be accurate enough.
These are not for freezers and I worry those designed for freezers won't work well at normal temps.
I use Xiaomi Bluetooth and Aqara zigbee sensors from cloudfree.shop
Bluetooth are cheaper but need an ESPHome proxy in range. Zigbee is a little easier because of the automatic meshing, which can be done with a few Ikea smart plugs.
I had one in my freezer and the temperature seemed close enough, but the battery didn't last as long.
My research said z-wave is better than zig bee, why did you go with zig bee?
Can you controller the esp home from home assistant?
It's what cloud free was selling at the time. It looks like there are more options for zigbee devices than z-wave right now.
There's an integration for ESPHome. I'm not sure if it supports everything that ESPHome can do since I've only been using it as a proxy. Updating firmware seems to require a chromium-based browser
I have been using sensorpush.com. And have really been enjoying them. Simple relatively cheap and I use them everywhere. outside, in the house, barrel room and in the freezer.