I'm seeing a few posts about battery life. It is hard to build a power-efficient device when you're using WIFI as a transmission protocol. WIFI does not deal with power efficiency very well due to the nature of TCP / UDP signaling. There's a lot going on there that can chew through battery life. This is why Bluetooth LE and Zigbee exist and should be used when power is a concern. In short, if your temp/hum sensor does not run on battery power or has a very large battery then WIFI is ok, but if you're using AA or AAA batteries. It's best not to use WIFI.
EDIT: I talked with few people about the sensors which use AAA / R3 / LR3 (same is with AA / R6) batteries and the sensor will not work if you are using rechargble batteries as they have different voltage - 1.2V, when not rechargable batteries have 1,5V and these sensors require 1.5V. It's even written in aution description of the sensors. Old message: Guys, don't buy this sensor... it's really bad. Batteries are dead after few days, keep losing connection. 😵💫
Czujnik Tuya, czujnikowi Tuya nierówny. Jest wiele różnych wersji, które bazują na Tuya ale mogą bardzo się różnić. Mój zakupiony czujnik jest z dolnej półki i może dlatego taki kiepski. Spójrz na opis filmu, dołączyłem tam link to czujnika WiFi, który ma znacznie lepsze komentarze odnośnie jego działania, ale też trochę więcej kosztuje. Spróbował bym z takim. A gdzie ten czujnik chcesz mieć? Jeśli w pomieszczeniu to możesz jeszcze znaleźć taki co ma ekranik LCD z akumulatorkiem do ładowania. Jeśli miałbyś problem ze znalezieniem takiego to daj znać.
@@SmartTubeOfficial 3 róże pomieszczenia (dom) i 1 czujnik na zewnątrz. do tego jakis ekran na którym to bedzie wyswietlane (tablet lub dedykowane rowiązanie).
A planujesz jakieś inne rzeczy typu czujniki otwarcia drzwi, okna? Czujniki ruchu do zapalenia światła itp? Że sprzetem na wifi jest taki problem że duża ich ilość może Ci psuć siec, router może mieć problemy z ogarnięciem ich. Ja mam prawie 70 urządzeń i miałem spore problemy, musiałem Routery zmieniać. Jeśli nie skończy się u ciebie na czujnikach temperatury to poczytaj sobie o Home Assistant i celuj w urządzenia na zigbee, a nie na wifi. O jednym z nich mówiłem na filmie który parę dni temu wrzuciłem. A na tym filmie jeśli oglądałeś tą część materiału to widziałeś jak wygląda home assistant u mnie, garficzny podgląd domu itp. Super sprawa, polecam.
I don't agree with you, im using 4 generic Tuya zigbee temperature and humidity sensors which works on AAA batteries and they work for 1,5 years without any problems (on same batteries, didn't change them not even once) . So im saying that for me physical appearance is not deal breaker because i rather put two AAA batteries place the sensor in some corner and forget about it (on his physical location and appearance) rather than looking good sensor like Aqara (which is double or even triple the price) and changing the 1620 or 2032 coin cell battery way more often.
@@SmartTubeOfficial I did some research.according to that Amazon only can trigger automations from sensors.But Google assistant cannot do that. Thank for your prompt response I really enjoyed your video 😊.
I have purchased two of these recently and I agree with your review it work pretty good, battery so far is good and no hub required. Now I need one to measure temperature of a liquid (just water). I want to use it to tell me the temperature of the water in my lake. It obviously needs to have a Dallas type probe. I just can’t find this type of device. Any recommendations? Thanks.
Hi! Thanks for your comments. Sorry that it took a bit to answer your question but... I may have a nice solution. As I am a fan of zigbee devices I was thinking about taking a zigbee device for example aqara open close sensor put it to plastic sealed bag and then throw it to the lake. You may think how the heck open close sensor can give you temperature, but yes these sensors have also a temperature sensor. However for that you would need some other stuff like Home Assistant and zigbee gateway to get the sensor data. Standard application for aqara/xiaomi won't give you temperature data, you need Home Assistant. What do you think? 😅
How long does it take for this to adjust to the temperature of a refrigerator after being at room temp? Many of these devices have a very long lag time.
it depends from what model you have and if you can change the updates timing/values. My sensor hadveoptions to have updates more frequently plus if the temperature changes by specific value it will also log the temperature
I'm using this to tell temperature of a worm farm and the temperature alarm is particularly handy. in the handbook Part 4. Intelligent Service it says switch something. I'm wondering if I can turn on a cooling system. Know anything about this function?
Hi Martin, so it's just about automations, scenes, that you can create in the Tuya Smart application, but you need other smart devices to do that like relays, smart sockets or AC that is in Tuya Smart app. What system are you using? Tuya Smart or maybe Home Assistant? Here you have smart socket that works with Tuya Smart: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DkVk9ut but after turning it on by automation your cooling system needs to activate automatically if it's not in Tuya Smart. I'm using Home Assistant and in it, all devices talk with each other, so I have automations that if temperature is X degree the AC unit is turning on until the temperature drops to Y. So the request is direct from temperature device to AC unit not by turing the relay or smart socket.
Hi, i want to ask for how long it takes records ( history of temperature and humidity) ....... I read somewhere only take records for 7 days, on other site i read that it takes records for 2 years, and you can see temperature in the last 2 years ( month to month, day to day)
Hi, thanks for the question. It's a bit tricky with those sensors. You have so many wifi sensors that i would stick to what sellers states in the auction. If sensor is powered by tuya it doesnt mean we have the same one, even if they look the same😅 I dont know if you read my pinned comment but i do not recomment buying wifi sensors if you want reliable sensor. The one from yt was cheap, maybe more expensive has something to offer, the one i got is rubbish. If you dont have any gateway, i would buy a gateway to zigbee/ble devices and then i would build nice setup with multiple sensors that last years on battery with frequent updates on readings. You can find links in the video description to these products.
It depence on the interval sending data. Mine is sett to 15min and perhaps its dead now after 1mnd. Standard is sending data every 60min and then the battery will perhaps hold 1 year. Remember its WIFI that sucks power. Belive its some kind of ESP8266 inside. Perhaps the Zigbee version keeps longer BUT than you need the Zigbee gateway ....
If you do not have any smart home system I would buy a Mijia Gateway from Xiaomi (2nd gen or 3rd), smart plug from Mijia - you have Zigbee version and WiFi but , I would recommend Zigbee and be sure that it can handle the power of infra heater. And finally temperature sensor from Mijia or Aqara. To this simple setup you can easily build up other automations with lights, motions, smoke sensors etc. I put links to above products in video description.
@@SmartTubeOfficial Thanks! I bought Mija Gateway and temperature sensor. Unfortunatelly, I can nowhere find a Zigbee plug. I bought a wifi version, but I cannot make automation with that (and also there is an automation problem in the app since weeks).
@illeskesee With automations, if they are not working please uninstall application Xiaomi Home and install it once again. I'm almost ready with another video and I'm showing there exactly same problem with automations that they were not working... and in my case reinstalling helped. Meantime I will check my mijia wifi plug which I used last christmas for the christmas tree :) whether it works for me or not with automations. I will let you know.
@illeskesee when you are creating automation you cannot pick your wifi plug? but you added the plug to your Xiaomi Home app? I checked and I can see it and I can link the plug with temperature sensor automation. Can you send me the model of your wifi plug?
@@SmartTubeOfficial I deleted and re-installed, but doesn't work. Many people have the same problem if I read the feedbacks. I have the ZNCZ05CM plug and can't link with the sensor, just make a manually automation.
how do you know that the reading are wrong? are you comaring it to any other devices? in Tuya app is there option to add an offset? maybe that could work for you? I know that in Home Assistant you can easily do that for Zigbee devices :(
Ja się wkurzyłem na sprzedawcę z Aliexpress, kupiłem jakiś sensor, działa swietnie, aktualizuje się wtedy kiedy zmieni się temperatura. Mówię petarda to kupie sobie dwa kolejne na tej samej "aukcji" - przychodza, patrzę, jakieś inne no mówię dobra. Instaluje działa, sprawdzam czy zmienia się temperatura i ni chu chu... Zostawiam na parę godzin, patrzę, a to gówno się co godzinę tylko łączy. A miałem uzyć do sterowania grzaniem.
@PiotrSzczecin dzięki za komentarz. a w jakiej aplikacji masz ten sensor? Bo w Tuya akurat ten sensor co jest w filmie ma możliwość przestawienia takich opcji, co ile update, przy jakich zmianach temperatury update. sprawdzałeś wszystkie opcje?
@@julianporter5 good luck! So you already have Home Assistant? Remember that if you are using sensors for batteries like in the video be sure that they are non rechargable and their voltage is 1.5V.
@@dadazizala5271 06:00 here i'm putting device into the pairing mode... does it work different in your case? the light is permanent at the beginning but then it's flashing while I was clicking the button.
Most of those thermometers only update the historic temp chart every hour even though the temp display may be close to real time. So the historic is useless. Why even bother to include it ?
Thanks for the comment. There are so many different wifi tuya temperature sensors that it is really hard to get the one you want. I would focus on what people are saying in the comments and the description of the device. My device was saving temperature like I chosen in the settings in the Tuya Smart for Tuya Smart. If you are using Home Assistant like I, you are much more safer, as Home Assistant is saving all reading and as long as you chosen. Good look with old/new smart devices.
@@SmartTubeOfficial I have looked at most of the available Tuya ones and not a single one can give a historic temperature update faster than every hour even though the real time temperature update can be every 30 seconds. I have been told that for some for storage reason related to Tuya cloud , the device makers are limited. Though Tuya has told me that is not the case. So historic chart is still a waste of time.
Useless? Why? I want to see how my temperature and humidity is changing over the day and months (seasonally), who cares if I open the door or the window and the temperature goes down for 15 minutes???
@@Grissinen do you care if you freezer warms and the historic misses it. Do you care if your aquarium temp drops very cold but there is no record of it.
@gordongiddings3120 true I did not but I haven't had that knowledge yet. If you check my pinned comment I wrote about it. Batteries were dead after few days. First and last sensor on WiFi 😅
I talked with few people about the sensors which use AAA / R3 / LR3 (same is with AA / R6) batteries and the sensor will not work if you are using rechargble batteries as they have different voltage - 1.2V, when not rechargable batteries have 1,5V and these sensors require 1.5V. It's even written in aution description of the sensors.
I accept and understand your opinion, but my intention is not to tell you whether it's a garbage or not... just say what i think and show you how it works. You may not like it but if you check aliexpress people are buying it a lot. Why? Cuz it's over the wifi and you can "easly" connect it to your network. People are afraid of zigbee and don't want to spend money on gateway but it's even simpler stuff.. you just need a gateway.
Which sensor you wish to get from Aliexpress?🤔 Maybe two wishes come true...
I'm seeing a few posts about battery life. It is hard to build a power-efficient device when you're using WIFI as a transmission protocol. WIFI does not deal with power efficiency very well due to the nature of TCP / UDP signaling. There's a lot going on there that can chew through battery life. This is why Bluetooth LE and Zigbee exist and should be used when power is a concern.
In short, if your temp/hum sensor does not run on battery power or has a very large battery then WIFI is ok, but if you're using AA or AAA batteries. It's best not to use WIFI.
Thanks for the comment! I can just agree with you. 😁
EDIT: I talked with few people about the sensors which use AAA / R3 / LR3 (same is with AA / R6) batteries and the sensor will not work if you are using rechargble batteries as they have different voltage - 1.2V, when not rechargable batteries have 1,5V and these sensors require 1.5V. It's even written in aution description of the sensors.
Old message: Guys, don't buy this sensor... it's really bad. Batteries are dead after few days, keep losing connection. 😵💫
Jaki inny czujnik temp/wilgotnosci polecisz, wifi (bez bramki)?
Czujnik Tuya, czujnikowi Tuya nierówny. Jest wiele różnych wersji, które bazują na Tuya ale mogą bardzo się różnić. Mój zakupiony czujnik jest z dolnej półki i może dlatego taki kiepski. Spójrz na opis filmu, dołączyłem tam link to czujnika WiFi, który ma znacznie lepsze komentarze odnośnie jego działania, ale też trochę więcej kosztuje. Spróbował bym z takim. A gdzie ten czujnik chcesz mieć? Jeśli w pomieszczeniu to możesz jeszcze znaleźć taki co ma ekranik LCD z akumulatorkiem do ładowania. Jeśli miałbyś problem ze znalezieniem takiego to daj znać.
@@SmartTubeOfficial 3 róże pomieszczenia (dom) i 1 czujnik na zewnątrz. do tego jakis ekran na którym to bedzie wyswietlane (tablet lub dedykowane rowiązanie).
A planujesz jakieś inne rzeczy typu czujniki otwarcia drzwi, okna? Czujniki ruchu do zapalenia światła itp? Że sprzetem na wifi jest taki problem że duża ich ilość może Ci psuć siec, router może mieć problemy z ogarnięciem ich. Ja mam prawie 70 urządzeń i miałem spore problemy, musiałem Routery zmieniać. Jeśli nie skończy się u ciebie na czujnikach temperatury to poczytaj sobie o Home Assistant i celuj w urządzenia na zigbee, a nie na wifi. O jednym z nich mówiłem na filmie który parę dni temu wrzuciłem. A na tym filmie jeśli oglądałeś tą część materiału to widziałeś jak wygląda home assistant u mnie, garficzny podgląd domu itp. Super sprawa, polecam.
I don't agree with you, im using 4 generic Tuya zigbee temperature and humidity sensors which works on AAA batteries and they work for 1,5 years without any problems (on same batteries, didn't change them not even once) . So im saying that for me physical appearance is not deal breaker because i rather put two AAA batteries place the sensor in some corner and forget about it (on his physical location and appearance) rather than looking good sensor like Aqara (which is double or even triple the price) and changing the 1620 or 2032 coin cell battery way more often.
Hi can you use this sensor and controller plug in Google assistant
Hi, thanks for your question. Unfortunately not, I cant see such option.
@@SmartTubeOfficial I did some research.according to that Amazon only can trigger automations from sensors.But Google assistant cannot do that.
Thank for your prompt response I really enjoyed your video 😊.
I have purchased two of these recently and I agree with your review it work pretty good, battery so far is good and no hub required. Now I need one to measure temperature of a liquid (just water). I want to use it to tell me the temperature of the water in my lake. It obviously needs to have a Dallas type probe. I just can’t find this type of device. Any recommendations? Thanks.
Hi! Thanks for your comments. Sorry that it took a bit to answer your question but... I may have a nice solution. As I am a fan of zigbee devices I was thinking about taking a zigbee device for example aqara open close sensor put it to plastic sealed bag and then throw it to the lake. You may think how the heck open close sensor can give you temperature, but yes these sensors have also a temperature sensor. However for that you would need some other stuff like Home Assistant and zigbee gateway to get the sensor data. Standard application for aqara/xiaomi won't give you temperature data, you need Home Assistant. What do you think? 😅
How long does it take for this to adjust to the temperature of a refrigerator after being at room temp? Many of these devices have a very long lag time.
it depends from what model you have and if you can change the updates timing/values. My sensor hadveoptions to have updates more frequently plus if the temperature changes by specific value it will also log the temperature
I'm using this to tell temperature of a worm farm and the temperature alarm is particularly handy. in the handbook Part 4. Intelligent Service it says switch something. I'm wondering if I can turn on a cooling system. Know anything about this function?
Hi Martin, so it's just about automations, scenes, that you can create in the Tuya Smart application, but you need other smart devices to do that like relays, smart sockets or AC that is in Tuya Smart app. What system are you using? Tuya Smart or maybe Home Assistant? Here you have smart socket that works with Tuya Smart: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DkVk9ut but after turning it on by automation your cooling system needs to activate automatically if it's not in Tuya Smart. I'm using Home Assistant and in it, all devices talk with each other, so I have automations that if temperature is X degree the AC unit is turning on until the temperature drops to Y. So the request is direct from temperature device to AC unit not by turing the relay or smart socket.
Hi, i want to ask for how long it takes records ( history of temperature and humidity) ....... I read somewhere only take records for 7 days, on other site i read that it takes records for 2 years, and you can see temperature in the last 2 years ( month to month, day to day)
Hi, thanks for the question. It's a bit tricky with those sensors. You have so many wifi sensors that i would stick to what sellers states in the auction. If sensor is powered by tuya it doesnt mean we have the same one, even if they look the same😅 I dont know if you read my pinned comment but i do not recomment buying wifi sensors if you want reliable sensor. The one from yt was cheap, maybe more expensive has something to offer, the one i got is rubbish. If you dont have any gateway, i would buy a gateway to zigbee/ble devices and then i would build nice setup with multiple sensors that last years on battery with frequent updates on readings. You can find links in the video description to these products.
It depence on the interval sending data. Mine is sett to 15min and perhaps its dead now after 1mnd. Standard is sending data every 60min and then the battery will perhaps hold 1 year. Remember its WIFI that sucks power. Belive its some kind of ESP8266 inside. Perhaps the Zigbee version keeps longer BUT than you need the Zigbee gateway ....
Hi! I would like to have a sensor, that turns on a smart plug (infra heater) at a certain temperature. What do you recommend?
If you do not have any smart home system I would buy a Mijia Gateway from Xiaomi (2nd gen or 3rd), smart plug from Mijia - you have Zigbee version and WiFi but , I would recommend Zigbee and be sure that it can handle the power of infra heater. And finally temperature sensor from Mijia or Aqara. To this simple setup you can easily build up other automations with lights, motions, smoke sensors etc. I put links to above products in video description.
@@SmartTubeOfficial Thanks! I bought Mija Gateway and temperature sensor. Unfortunatelly, I can nowhere find a Zigbee plug. I bought a wifi version, but I cannot make automation with that (and also there is an automation problem in the app since weeks).
@illeskesee With automations, if they are not working please uninstall application Xiaomi Home and install it once again. I'm almost ready with another video and I'm showing there exactly same problem with automations that they were not working... and in my case reinstalling helped. Meantime I will check my mijia wifi plug which I used last christmas for the christmas tree :) whether it works for me or not with automations. I will let you know.
@illeskesee when you are creating automation you cannot pick your wifi plug? but you added the plug to your Xiaomi Home app? I checked and I can see it and I can link the plug with temperature sensor automation. Can you send me the model of your wifi plug?
@@SmartTubeOfficial I deleted and re-installed, but doesn't work. Many people have the same problem if I read the feedbacks. I have the ZNCZ05CM plug and can't link with the sensor, just make a manually automation.
Mine is giving wrong temp any idea how to fix
how do you know that the reading are wrong? are you comaring it to any other devices? in Tuya app is there option to add an offset? maybe that could work for you? I know that in Home Assistant you can easily do that for Zigbee devices :(
Ja się wkurzyłem na sprzedawcę z Aliexpress, kupiłem jakiś sensor, działa swietnie, aktualizuje się wtedy kiedy zmieni się temperatura. Mówię petarda to kupie sobie dwa kolejne na tej samej "aukcji" - przychodza, patrzę, jakieś inne no mówię dobra. Instaluje działa, sprawdzam czy zmienia się temperatura i ni chu chu... Zostawiam na parę godzin, patrzę, a to gówno się co godzinę tylko łączy. A miałem uzyć do sterowania grzaniem.
@PiotrSzczecin dzięki za komentarz. a w jakiej aplikacji masz ten sensor? Bo w Tuya akurat ten sensor co jest w filmie ma możliwość przestawienia takich opcji, co ile update, przy jakich zmianach temperatury update. sprawdzałeś wszystkie opcje?
@@SmartTubeOfficial mam aplikacje Tuya, w Smartlife jest tak samo. Nic nie da się zmienić.
How did you produce the temperature plots in Home Assistant?
You need to add tuya integration to Home Assistant and it will be added automatically there if you add device to tuya smart. Does it help you?
@@SmartTubeOfficial I will give it a go when my bits arrive from Aliexpress. Thanks
@@julianporter5 good luck! So you already have Home Assistant? Remember that if you are using sensors for batteries like in the video be sure that they are non rechargable and their voltage is 1.5V.
@@SmartTubeOfficial yes I installed Home Assistant to monitor my heating system. Will check the batteries thanks.
@@SmartTubeOfficial after some messing around I got the Tuya integration added so I can see the sensor in home assistant too.
Hey,
Shows the Google Home App the Temperature?
Thanks
You won't find the temperature in Google Home I think. At least I couldn't, but I could ask Google Assistant as in video what is the temperature.
@@SmartTubeOfficial Thanks for your quick answer! :)
I failed to re add The device after internet service provider change
did you try to restart the device? you should put it into pairing mode and again the device to your app
@@SmartTubeOfficialhow to reset this device to repair other network?because after 5 sec diode not flashing, but permanently light
@@dadazizala5271 06:00 here i'm putting device into the pairing mode... does it work different in your case? the light is permanent at the beginning but then it's flashing while I was clicking the button.
Most of those thermometers only update the historic temp chart every hour even though the temp display may be close to real time. So the historic is useless. Why even bother to include it ?
Thanks for the comment. There are so many different wifi tuya temperature sensors that it is really hard to get the one you want. I would focus on what people are saying in the comments and the description of the device. My device was saving temperature like I chosen in the settings in the Tuya Smart for Tuya Smart. If you are using Home Assistant like I, you are much more safer, as Home Assistant is saving all reading and as long as you chosen. Good look with old/new smart devices.
@@SmartTubeOfficial I have looked at most of the available Tuya ones and not a single one can give a historic temperature update faster than every hour even though the real time temperature update can be every 30 seconds. I have been told that for some for storage reason related to Tuya cloud , the device makers are limited. Though Tuya has told me that is not the case. So historic chart is still a waste of time.
Useless? Why? I want to see how my temperature and humidity is changing over the day and months (seasonally), who cares if I open the door or the window and the temperature goes down for 15 minutes???
@@Grissinen do you care if you freezer warms and the historic misses it. Do you care if your aquarium temp drops very cold but there is no record of it.
Yeah I was hopping for every 15 min or 30 min.
I am looking if buying a gateway can give you more options
garbage product - WIFI device drains battery like crazy. Video does not discuss this at all.
@gordongiddings3120 true I did not but I haven't had that knowledge yet. If you check my pinned comment I wrote about it. Batteries were dead after few days. First and last sensor on WiFi 😅
I talked with few people about the sensors which use AAA / R3 / LR3 (same is with AA / R6) batteries and the sensor will not work if you are using rechargble batteries as they have different voltage - 1.2V, when not rechargable batteries have 1,5V and these sensors require 1.5V. It's even written in aution description of the sensors.
Might as well just place text over the video saying ignore this whole video this product is Garbage and a total waste of money
I accept and understand your opinion, but my intention is not to tell you whether it's a garbage or not... just say what i think and show you how it works. You may not like it but if you check aliexpress people are buying it a lot. Why? Cuz it's over the wifi and you can "easly" connect it to your network. People are afraid of zigbee and don't want to spend money on gateway but it's even simpler stuff.. you just need a gateway.