Home Automation

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Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It is automation of the home, housework or household activity.

Home automation may include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), appliances, security locks of gates and doors and other systems, to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security.

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Home Temperature sensors with dashboard and statistics. (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by No-Wonder-6956@alien.top to c/homeautomation@selfhosted.forum

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Does anybody have any recommendations of products they would use to monitor temperatures in various rooms of a home?

In the short term, I would like at the minimum a good dashboard that can show the temperatures in various rooms.

In the long term, I want to investigate implementing some sort of statistics, analytics, or AI that would provide insight into various trends and temperature history.

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[–] LectroRoot@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I use ESP-32-vroom's and DH22 temp/humidity sensors paired with home assistant which gives you a dashboard.

It's overcomplicated if you have never messed with these devices. So I'm sure there is something better that's plug play if that is what you are after.

If gives me stats where I can see trends and such.

[–] loujr15@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Home assistant and Switchbot temperature sensor is what I use to monitor the temperature in my apartment. Simple lil dashboard to give me a visual of each temperature sensor, thermostat, and current outdoor temperatures.

I then created a template sensor to give me an average temperature of each sensor in each room to be used in an automation that controls my thermostat.

This is by far my favorite automation cause I not only use the average temperature in my home sensor, but I also use outdoor temperature, and the season integration home assistant has to help control my thermostat throughout the year without me having to adjust it for the different seasons.

This is also tied to my laundry automation and cooking automation to help reduce the pain on my bills. I'm still working on this automation because winter hasn't fully hit us here yet in Wisconsin, so I'm still collecting data as the weeks pass by.

So my idea is that by next year, when spring comes around, this will be a flawless automation that will run without me worrying about wasting unnecessary energy when the thermostat is on.

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

How are you integrating the switchbot?