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Don't forget Temperature Sensors for your Fridge! (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ArmoredCavalry@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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Learned my lesson after a trip last week... I have sensors for nearly everything, but somehow totally forgot about the Fridge / Freezer.

A power outage made my fridge lose it's mind and turn off cooling, even after it powered back up. Unplug / replug seems to have fixed it, but all the food was spoiled when we got home. Simple $10 temperature sensor could have saved everything!

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[-] Deez@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Would you put the sensor itself inside the fridge/freezer, and would it still have signal?

[-] ThePantser@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

My Aqara sensor has a pretty good signal in my fridge, results may vary as the material of fridges vary.

[-] cedeho@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

How is battery life in this cold environment?

[-] Deez@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Cheers!

[-] ArmoredCavalry@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeap, I put it in the actual Fridge, signal seems fine for Bluetooth at least!

[-] Deez@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Cheers!

this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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