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Contact temperature sensor ?

Posted: Sunday 06 January 2019 10:59
by midomot
Hello
Has anybody found something for this :
a temperature sensor to place/attach/clamp onto the surface of a pipe/radiator etc to report temperature to Domoticz
-> I'd measure surface temperature of pipes in/out of my heating system, of radiators etc

Like the Digoo R8H but with a kind of external probe ?
Digoo R8G: https://www.banggood.com/Digoo-DG-R8H-4 ... 78108.html

Been looking on Banggood and Aliexpress but no luck so far - I maybe have the wrong keywords

At worst I guess I could desolder/add cable/resolder to get the sensor outside the R8H casing, but would rather not..
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Thanks !

Re: Contact temperature sensor ?

Posted: Sunday 06 January 2019 12:12
by bjacobse
Well there are several approaches :-)

1)if you have a few Arduinos + NRF24L01+ modules and some DS18B20
Use Mysensors and create 1 gateway and a sensor/node. The sensors can use DS18B20, this temp sensors you can attache to your pipes with strips

DS18B20 temp node:
https://www.mysensors.org/build/temp

serial gateway:
https://www.mysensors.org/build/serial_gateway

Domoticz Wiki:
https://www.domoticz.com/wiki/MySensors

2)
If you have an ESP8266 wifi, then you can use this approach instead of using mysensors:
https://www.letscontrolit.com/wiki/inde ... as_DS18b20

3)
If you have your RPI with Domoticz close to where you want to measure, then you can cable DS18B20 directly to your RPI
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=25687&p=197575&hili ... 20#p197575

Re: Contact temperature sensor ?

Posted: Monday 07 January 2019 18:01
by midomot
Thanks, I will read up on material you provided me with ! wifi or 433mhz are both good for me

I am just not great with electronics and was hoping I had overlooked a simple battery enabled sensor :)

In fact I'd rather not be dependent on power network because I want to move around the sensors to check different things in the house

Re: Contact temperature sensor ?

Posted: Monday 07 January 2019 18:07
by b_weijenberg

Re: Contact temperature sensor ?

Posted: Friday 11 January 2019 5:58
by dandanger
Check also NodeMcu with EasyEsp firmware. You can attach which sensor you want, like the mentioned dallas DS18B20. You can put this all together in minutes.