Hi all,

I’m looking for zigbee temp and humidity sensors that work with HA, are pretty accurate and either are mains powered or have use a battery that can be recharged e.g. AA or AAA.

I like the Sonoff SNZB-02D, but they use disposable coin cell batteries.

One I found that looks like it might fulfill these criteria is

https://3reality.com/product/temperature-and-humidity-sensor-with-digital-lcd-display/

But they’re kinda spendy. Anyone have any recommendations?

  • ueiqkkwhuwjw@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    1·
    12 hours ago

    Good to know, thank you. I think the only thing I worry about with BT is vulnerabilities. Not sure if ZigBee is any more secure but I’ve heard of a lot of BT vulns in the past. Probably doesn’t matter for a temp sensor, so probably just important for the dongle/driver being used with HA.

    • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Fair point! As far as I can tell, the temp sensors are just beacons - anyone can connect and see that somewhere in your house it’s 72 °F, but who cares ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      If you’re running on a Raspberry Pi, you can just use the onboard BT, whose drivers are updated regularly.

      ZigBee ones get occasional updates automatically detected through HA, and have to be moved to somewhere near the controller to update. I assume, as temperature and humidity sensing hasn’t changed, that these are security patches.

      BT ones get no updates, which either means their security goes unpatched, or it really doesn’t matter when all they do is shout out measurements into the void.