This year I am starting a market garden while working full time. The market garden isnt on the same property where I live, and Im also working full time, so I built this 12×28' caterpillar tunnel in my front yard for my seedlings for transplant. (End walls/scissor doors have been installed since the photo was taken). Im looking for a thermometer/hygrometer that I can check remotely, preferably by hooking up to my home wifi without an additional subscription. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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What I use in my Greenhouse. They’re great, even have low and high alerts.
Govee is Bluetooth. I use them in my bee hives
Sensor push for sure. Excellent device and even better customer service
We use Govee at our Farm. It’s in all of the goth houses, our greenhouse, and our dry lean to area that we store our straw under
Any cheap Tuya sensor works great, that no temu for the best prices. Been using them for a few years now and all Tuya sensors, outlets, anything by them is rock solid. Keeps everything in one app and they can easily be automated. My entire greenhouse is automated on Tuya devices and lots of things in the house too. The range is great but they use 2.5 GHz network connections only.
Yolink. They use a hub but that gives them exceptional range (800ish MHz). They are cheap and have great battery life.
You could also try Z-Wave, or Zigbee, devices. You’ll need a hub ( there are several available) (I personally use Hubitat) but they could solve your problems. You can set alerts from the hub.
I went down a rabbit hole and ended up building several meshtastic sensors. The boards are dirt cheap, you attach whatever supported sensors you want (I use lux and temp/humidity/pressure/aq). Have one node set to receive the signals from them, enable mqtt, and digest it into a tool like influxdb for graphing. It works well over large geographical distances, and you can power the nodes via solar.
It does require a little soldering and building.
https://meshtastic.org/docs/configuration/module/telemetry/
Inkbird IBS-TH1 is a solid choice ime. No subscription, wifi connected, free app lets you check remotely and set alerts. Govee also makes good wifi ones, pretty reliable and no monthly fees. SensorPush is a bit pricier but super accurate if you want high precision.
I’d avoid anything that requires a subscription cloud service, some of the cheaper wifi ones try to lock you into monthly fees.
Aqara here
Govee
Tempstick
AC Infinity Controller 69 Pro with programmable outlets. Allows you to monitor and control through an app and will graph temperature, humidity, and VPD.
I use a govee wifi temp and humidity monitor. Only complaint is the sensor hole gets wet and reads wrong sometimes lol