Topic: Govee home monitoring system temp/humidity or water sensors.

[patentlymn]

I have to dog and house sit for a few days and my heating system could be iffy. So I got and installed a cheap Govee system for temps.  It is not a huge system. It is one hub plus 3 or 6 temp/humidity sensors.  You can also get  hub plus 3 water sensors.
You set it up using the bluetooth feature of  smart phone then the sensors talk to the hub and the hub talks to wifi in  your house.  You can view the sensors and receive alarms on the govee app on your smart phone. I even put one sensor near the top  inside a chest freezer and it works down to - 5 def F or some such. It works.

They include small lanyards for each sensor so you can hang them from a nail. If you want more sensors just get another hub/sensor package. I do not think they have security sensors like door. window, smoke.


Govee WiFi Hygrometer Thermometer 6 Pack H5100, Indoor Wireless Temperature Humidity Sensor Monitor with Remote App Notification Alert, 2 Years Data Storage Export, for Home, Greenhouse  $79
https://www.amazon.com/Govee-Hygrometer-Thermometer-Temperature-Notification/dp/B0BNPH97LM/ref=asc_df_B0BNPH97LM?mcid=c137e03ddb6f334dbf99a123157bea95&hvocijid=6636370970896814119-B0BNPH97LM-&hvexpln=73&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=721245378154&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6636370970896814119&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9019687&hvtargid=pla-2281435182138&th=1

3 sensor package is $59.
Tiny

[Libertas]

Great, Chinese...  Probably spying on you and has a kill-switch in Beijing...   

[patentlymn]

If the Chinese want to know my basement temp they can have at it.

[paulh]

Sub zero temps here for a few days, wood stove will do well on first floor but cellar is ify.

[patentlymn]

Currently - 7 deg F to drop to -17 again tonight then above zero for a awhile.

I have a so called milk house heater in the kitchen as it would freeze without it. Keeps it too warm while i am away now 63 deg F. I should set it lower. In MN.

There was some local sob story on social  media. No disrespect intended. Some couple returned to their house here in MN. The crawl space got real cold pipes froze and the water killed the furnace then more pipes froze. Then some flooding. They were looking for a cheap plumber.

Me? I would have put a heater in the crawlspace set to go on a low temp but well above freezing. Last winter the milk house heaters were going for $20. To  be supper safe use the oil filled radiator type.

Also while present in the house, I have used the propane tank top "sunflower"  heaters indoors with no problems.. I had CO and explosive gas monitors just in case. They do generate humidity.

[Libertas]

Use electric space heaters in pump house (more like a pump closet) and in crawl space under older side of house...  Remote thermometer in latter says 38, so cold enough that it is set to low but running all the time...  I keep looking at it often.  Hate to pop the seal and turn it up as it will flood with sub-zero air...and I would have to crack again to turn back down when the warm up hits Wed...

[patentlymn]

I knew a couple in MN with a newer house with a high efficiency gas furnace. They can exhaust out the side of the house through PVC. These PVC pipes go up to a U then go down a little. In their case the pipes terminated  at a lower height than code called for. They left their house, and it snowed a lot. The snow covered the exhaust and intake and killed the furnace. The pipes froze then burst and flooded the first floor ceiling and then the floor.

[Libertas]

I have a pvc port outside...fricken builds up ice, really fast on cold fricken days like this...  I  keep clearing it so it doesn't back-freeze into the port...