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  • I put the Ikea Thread sensor in my fridge a while back and it's been a lot more useful than I expected. My fridge had been periodically getting too cold or too hot, I suspect the issue is that the captive touch buttons that control the temp get occasionally bumped, changing the set temperature. With the thread sensor I can have Home Assistant send me an alert when the fridge leaves the safe zone for too long so I can manually correct it.

    It's also been interesting to see when placing hot food in the fridge how long the temperature stays elevated for. I put the sensor in a ziplock bag and sucked the air out of it so it has weatherproofing.

    by Gigachad
  • I have a mix of Sonoff and IKEA. Both work well for me, but the IKEA DIRIGERA API reports the IKEA TIMMERFLOTTE as two separate devices with different names, and it messed up my Grafana dashboard.

    It's the most first world of first world problems, but purely for that reason any more I buy will be Sonoff.

    by petepete
  • Do _not_ get the Aqara ones. The things will not stay connected for shit.

    I have a couple of the Tuya ones and I'm pleased with them. The humidity accuracy is questionable, but it's fine.

    I also have an airgradient (not zigbee, uses wifi) for high accuracy the one place I care about that. Works great in Home Assistant with esphome.

    by kadoban
  • The nicknames for the sensors is really annoying. I could only get one of the dots to actually tell me anything, and scrolling back and forth for the key suuuucks
    by marsbars241
  • Sadly it's missing Ikea one. They are cheap and most importantly, use AAA standard batteries instead of the coin cell type.

    Ikea selle rechargable ones for really cheap additionally.

    by DocG
  • I have 12 of the Aqara's deployed in my house. Initial setup was frustrating for some (they would lose connection after a day), but now that my Zigbee network is a little more solid (the Aqara's don't seem to use IKEA smart plugs as routers) I don't have any issues.
    by timvdalen
  • One of the things I never see in reports like this is what sensor is being used (is it a Bosch unit? Sensiron? Plain thermistor? Pixies and Fairy Dust? Some bodged together 1wire deal?) and what MCU (Nordic? Espresif? Microchip? Something else?) as those have a huge bearing on what the sensor is actually capable of, and would say a lot about precision/accuracy and battery life.
    by rpcope1
  • How does Zigbee compare to Matter? (as in, devices in the market, I know they are different levels but from a consumer perspective, there are zigbee switches and matter switches..) I've been using Matter switches because of HomeKit. Been pretty happy.

    I do not have any Zigbee devices but I have many Hue devices. Their connectivity is shit. Button presses are not being registered. Sometimes commands do not reach devices etc. That's why I tried to avoid Zigbee.

    But the low power battery operated zigbee stuff are pretty attractive if things work fine.

    by eknkc

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