Smart thermometer needed

No fun in that John ?

Didn’t think tbh ?

Thinking about it, such a table wouldn’t work ad its the average temp of the space we want. So a bigger space would need to be in a higher setting and vice versa

Just took a pint of this below. However, I’m still open to more options. Stuff can easily go back.

Oregon Scientific EM211 Weather + Basic Bluetooth Temperature Sensor for Smartphone’s and Tablet’s https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01D8NQHMA/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_JBaoAbKVZDC1S

That was the issue I was hitting. There is quite a lot of kit that will do this, but it’s all too pricey. That £60 is about the cheapest entry point.

Cos of a few parts needed, the id of thought things like this would be a dime a dozen.

I could think of a load of reasons for small cheap smart thermometers to be useful. You could mock something up in an hour and have them on eBay the next day .may get my -slaves- kids to work over the Xmas break.

My soldering is also poor.  When I’m messing about with the kids, we just use pegboards and jumpers. Since my Lada turns 16 he isn’t that untreated arm, so I have to wait now for my 9 yo girl to take an interest. Atm, she only likes the end result, and has no patience for the whys and how.

She just zones out. Though my lad took some encouragement. I had to build the stock audio car, figure out the code myself, then work backwards from a cool car, to how to manipulate it, them to the code . not that I’m any good at that either. Mostly rewritten stuff, that is easily adaptable.

It’s more about spending the hours with them, and showing them how stuff works or trying my best too* . and hoping something sticks or even better lights a fire within them.

Quite often we would end a session completely stuck and id then spends hours googling solutions etc …

Most of the time I would be 4 am with a load of wires on my bed, and when you got the desired effect, shouting with glee. the wife waking and seeing something daft like a servo move. She’d Mutter something like ”f-ing d-head” and turning over.

@drezha the one I got last night turned up and it’s quite good. Well very good for 9.99 and the app can have up to 20 devices connected.

It’s bt, not wifi so you need to be in reach for it to work, but it has parameter alarms and real-time monitoring.

It has no Alexa or google assistant capability, but I’m sure I could use an app to monitor the notifications from the app to trigger stuff

If so I’d set an old phone up within distance to monitor and have ifttt report it/trigger etc. Sending the trigger to a nest etc via Alexa/assistant  ….

An Arduino would be the simplest way to monitor temps etc, or/and a pi, far more flexible but for under a tenner and 12-hour delivery, it’s a good.

If the output of parameters can be manipulated, it would be a cheap way to have a ‘trigger’ in each main room.

I think its a battery hog, but having an old android or iOS device use as the brains, plugged in would solve this.

I’m sure you could bypass the pi and use an Arduino to gather the data and push it to an android phone via bt, that could then send it to your server.

So many ways to skin a cat. I think I may get one of these for the tortoise house.