How much does each sensor wind up costing, esp32 and all? That sounds really interesting. I think I have an esp32 laying around that I haven’t gotten to playing with yet.
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thejml@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I have a series of Tasmota esp32’s with Temp/Humidity/Barometric Pressure sensors around the house, attic, garage and outside. I scrape it into influxdb and have a Grafana dashboard setup.
glorp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
thejml@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I found a pack of 5 on Amazon for $20, for each of the sensors and the esp32’s… so $40 for 5. Probably cheaper in Ali or similar. The only negative is they need some calibration. The ones from Adafruit are better quality and already calibrated, but much more expensive.
klankin@piefed.ca 4 weeks ago
Thats really cool.
Is there any reason you chose grafana over home assistant?
I’m just setting uo a similar system myself, but I never even had the idea to use grafana for it
thejml@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I already had influxdb+grafana setup, so it was easy to pump data to, plus I was able to then match it up with cpu temps and such from my Kubernetes nodes. I like having all my data in one place.
That said, Tasmota has native Matter support and I now have a few ESP32’s controlling sockets, lights, etc., that integrate with Home Assistant.