I’m looking around for DC or USB powered thermometers but I can’t seem to find any. Granted, the battery powered ones last many years, but I’m looking to keep my options open. Zigbee devices are preferable. Anyone know?
ESPHome + DHT22 or DSB1820 + ESP32-C6 and a small hobby box plus power supply (old USB phone charger) and you can build your own.
I might do this option, thanks!
I literally just did this over the past few weeks. I bought four ESP32-C3 minis on expansion boards (The expansion boards come with PH2.0mm connectors and built in battery charging management, so that I can add battery power next - already ordered the LiPo batteries. At the moment they’re plugged into USB-C phone chargers) and four SHT-41 temperature and humidity meters. I then installed the espressif development environment and (don’t shoot me, I was under time pressure) vibe-coded the setup for the ESP boards: they broadcast the readings every 10 seconds via mosquitto.
I also bought a barebones raspberry pi and made it subscribe to the mosquitto feeds and write the data to a sqlite database, and created a basic flask website that reads the data from sqlite and shows the graphs and the temperature readings to anyone on my local wifi.
My code is on codeberg - I’d be happy to share the link if any of this is relevant to you.
Like actual thermometer or temperature sensor?
I have so sooo many temperature sensors in my network. Thermostats ($15) plant moisture sensors ($3-$6 from overseas but battery) my window AC unit apparently has several sensors home assistant picked up, a cheap air quality monitor, temp/relay units, and a smart humidifier.
Seems a waste to build dedicated hardware when cheap options just bundle temp sensors willy-nilly.
Discontinued IKEA VINDSTYRKA (Zigbee) or ALPSTUGa (Matter) come to mind.
I modded all of my sensors by adding a usb-c port and 5v-3.3v mini converters
Perk is, if done right you can still use battery if needed
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I recognize it’s not the answer to your question, but the ZigBee ones I have run on AAA batteries and last about a year on a charge.
With Eneloops, even after a decade they still keep over half their charge capacity. Could probably go 15-20 years per battery in regular trickled use with at most quarterly swaps - I think that’s kinda ideal operation for these guys.
One battery every 15 years, and an annual swap when it drops off my HA is a small price to pay for the flexibility of being able to deploy anywhere with zero infrastructure. I have a dozen sensors and would not want to have to wire each one.
FYI - Stock white charger that came with eneloops did not like how low the voltage gets when they run low in the temperature sensors, so I swapped for the “super pro” charger and it’s significantly better at managing the batteries: https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0B2WXJH43
