Dear forum community,
At the moment, I am using some cheap hygrometer/thermometers from an online marketplace to monitor the indoor climate in my house. While they are somewhat amusing, I’m quite sure they are not very accurate.
Which indoor climate station would you recommend? My budget is around 100 EUR (about 110 USD), and I would expect it to include data logging with app access.
It would be great if it runs on standard batteries, not special button cells or a built-in rechargeable battery. Expandability with sensors for different rooms would also be a plus.
I would appreciate user experiences, especially regarding battery life.
Thanks and best regards
Tolentino
At the moment, I am using some cheap hygrometer/thermometers from an online marketplace to monitor the indoor climate in my house. While they are somewhat amusing, I’m quite sure they are not very accurate.
Which indoor climate station would you recommend? My budget is around 100 EUR (about 110 USD), and I would expect it to include data logging with app access.
It would be great if it runs on standard batteries, not special button cells or a built-in rechargeable battery. Expandability with sensors for different rooms would also be a plus.
I would appreciate user experiences, especially regarding battery life.
Thanks and best regards
Tolentino
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hampshire26 Oct 2021 14:26OWLer schrieb:
Regarding this topic, I was considering the Netatmo products.I ended up discarding the Netatmos. Battery life was poor, one leaked and couldn’t be removed from the tight compartment, making the device unusable. Also, I found the app-only display inconvenient for daily use. Since early January, I have been using a Froggit system. The sensors run on standard Eneloop AA batteries, and the battery life is excellent—I haven’t had to replace or recharge any sensor yet. The indoor sensors measure temperature and humidity, connect simply via Wi-Fi for data transmission, offer a nice display through the Ecowitt portal, and can be easily read on a station with a monitor as well as on the devices themselves. Buying piece by piece is no problem.
Nida35a schrieb:
We got that from Lidl,
there’s also a symbol for ventilate/do not ventilate/definitely do not ventilate The temperature would be too high for me now, but I can only dream of the humidity level. I have to "ventilate away the painters" here every evening.
hampshire schrieb:
I threw the Netatmo out again. Battery life is bad, one battery leaked, couldn’t be removed from the narrow compartment, device unusable. Also, I found the display only accessible via app inconvenient for daily use. I didn’t know until now that Netatmo runs on batteries. Thanks for the info. I thought they were powered by cable.
I’ll look around for what else is available on the market that’s HomeKit-compatible.
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hampshire26 Oct 2021 15:07OWLer schrieb:
I didn’t know until now that Netatmo is battery-powered. Thanks for the tip. I thought they were powered by cables. It depends on the module. The main module is connected to a power adapter. Additional modules are usually battery-powered. This is generally the standard. In my system, the rain gauge became unusable after a short time with the supplied batteries. That annoyed me – and I don’t want things that annoy me in my living environment. We only keep a few things, and they should bring us joy. That’s the way I see life.
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