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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The only issue I see is that getting most sensors to work in the fridge/freezer is difficult for 2 reasons, the cold fucks with the batteries and the metal body of the fridge fucks with the signal.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I just used zigbee and put a repeater right next to the fridge. The big ass coin cells in the sonoff temp sensors are lasting around 6 months. Would probably be longer but I have the sensor with a screen in there.

    Obviously YMMV if you have a SubZero or something, but in my jankey LG it works fine.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Simple, just drill a hole into the fridge and use a probe from outside.

    /s just in case

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Home brewers are looking at you very oddly right now.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yep my beer fridge is exactly this :)

    Home brewers just set the fridge thermostat as cold as it goes and set the temp externally by turning the power off when it's cold enough.

    Not sure i'd drill a hole into my nice-looking kitchen fridge though. Probably rather than connect it to WiFi, but... I don't currently see a need to connect it to wifi anyway?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    We use a kegerator so the probes just run through the pre-drilled hole for the gas. But really the cables are so thin a standard door seal would close over them

    I can see where a temp would be useful to detect failure , but a power draw monitor would do the same

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    @southernbrewer I‘m not a Home brewer but three of our fridges get the same treatment as their primitive „thermostats„ are so crappy. Two simply were either too cold or not cold enough with a ridiculous amount of variation while the third one, an outdoor fridge-freezer combo has the thermostat in the fridge compartment and during cool nights sees no need to cool while the freezer compartment gets close to thawing.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It is a legit strategy.

    Or just use thin enamelled copper wire connected to the sensor and tape it down where the door closes, no drilling required.

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