{"id":91562,"date":"2025-05-06T17:07:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T21:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=1dad6c7d5ee1fd6b97b735b0eeaf6a21"},"modified":"2025-05-06T17:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T21:07:56","slug":"testing-different-temperature-sensors-for-a-diy-thermostat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=91562","title":{"rendered":"Testing different temperature sensors for a DIY thermostat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adafruit.com\/2025\/05\/06\/testing-different-temperature-sensors-for-a-diy-thermostat\/\">adafruit industries blog<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Super useful for putting together effective devices from questionable China export parts.  Would love to have similar results for a range of sensing devices.<\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2025\/05\/a-17.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2025\/05\/a-17.png 500w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2025\/05\/a-17-300x203.png 300w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2025\/05\/a-17-150x102.png 150w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2025\/05\/a-17.png 500w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2025\/05\/a-17-300x203.png 300w,https:\/\/cdn-blog.adafruit.com\/uploads\/2025\/05\/a-17-150x102.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Oleg Tarasov has tested six temperature sensors for use in a thermostat project.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A crucial step towards my goal of individual room temperature control is to be able to measure current room temperature with precision and minimum amount of lag.<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Important note<\/strong><\/b>: all of my sensors were sourced from China, and most of them from AliExpress. I did not get my sensors from official distributors, so there is a real possibility that all sensors I tested were unreliable knock-offs.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that I&rsquo;ll just slap together a couple of random sensors, write some code and be done with my per-room thermostats project. Instead, I&rsquo;m doing this on and off for almost half a year and get a occasional raised eyebrow from my wife while dipping weird-looking stuff in ice water <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/15.1.0\/72x72\/1f604.png\" alt=\"&#65533;\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> But it&rsquo;s actually fun and I learn a lot of stuff in the process, and isn&rsquo;t it this the true goal?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See the testing process in the post <a href=\"https:\/\/olegtarasov.me\/environmental-sensors\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oleg Tarasov has tested six temperature sensors for use in a thermostat project.<br \/>\nA crucial step tow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=91562\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}