Wireless Temperature Sensor For About $50

[mooseau]

Hello!

Thought I'd share a pool temperature sensor I put together for about $50. I was already invested in zigbee and had a thought.

Xiaomi Zigbee Gateway, the brain to forward all my Zigbee devices to Home Assistant.


Zigbee powerplug as a Zigbee repeater so the signal can reach the pool. Note the Eero for Tplink switches for the pool pump and booster pump.


Zigbee Temperature Sensor in a waterproof bag!


Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi showing the temperature. Yeah, it's winter down under.

 

[YippeeSkippy]

That's pretty cool! I'm not familiar with "Zigbee" but I'd previous sent my son a request to fix me up with something. So I'll forward this to him also.

Maddie

 

[mooseau]

It's the Xiaomi ecosystem backed by Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi. In my IMHO, I have seen nothing cheaper. It monitors my pool pump and booster pump power consumption and will actually trigger a halt if the power drops too much, or the vacuum (booster pump) is on without the main pump on. It's saved me on more than a few occasions when the skimmer box clogs or I mis-configure the pump timers on the TPLink smart plugs (that is the vacuum runs without the main pump). Wattage is not always a reliable proxy for pump pressure but often works.

I have a wireless pressure gauge that the Raspberry Pi can read, I just haven't installed it yet.