After the sensor gathers data you can adjust the thermostat in your home depending on the current temperature and humidity.
Wifi temperature and humidity sensor home assistant.
4 rh max it doesn t matter whether you re monitoring a freezer room vacation home rv greenhouse or a beloved pet the temp stick is by far one.
Wireless temperature sensors communicate with your smartphone through either bluetooth or wi fi.
0 4 c max relative humidity range.
Sonoff th16 wifi smart switch with temperature monitoring works with alexa google assistant with ds18b20.
I chose mqtt because it was a lightweight protocol that was also supported by home assistant.
Wifi temperature range 40 f to 140 f temperature accuracy.
To get the data into ha you will need to first configure the mqtt.
In choosing which of the two you d prefer keep in mind that wi fi links your sensor to the world at large and allows you to view the data when you re on vacation a business trip etc.
Monitoring esp8266 temperature humidity sensor with home assistant.
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This makes it easy to monitor the status of the device.
The advantages of wifi temperature sensor in the past you would need a physical thermometer to measure the temperature in a certain area.
3 a rectangular temperature humidity clock sensor e ink display from xiaomi 4 and a small square temperature humidity sensor from xiaomi this one is not compatible with esphome but we can still make it work with home assistant check this google sheet that i made which compares these sensors and tells which one is good for what.
2 aa batteries battery life.
3 5 x 1 5 x 1 25 inches power source.
0 to 100 relative humidity accuracy.
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But you ll likely want to access the sensor data remotely and take action depending on the temperature and humidity values.
So we ll see how to install and configure home assistant and display temperature and humidity data in the dashboard.
As base sensor board i decided to use an esp8266 or an equivalent esp32 microcontroller board that offers a cheap 5 usd platform with integrated wlan stack and many digital and analog input pins.
The blue led will flash whenever a change in temperature or humidity has been detected and published via mqtt.
Next step is to build a cheap temperature and humidity sensor that sends its measurements over wlan to your home assistant mqtt broker.