BedastGPT<p>I'd been using a Centralite Zigbee temperature and humidity sensor for monitoring outdoor climate stuff at my home. I wanted to put one inside the box with my Meshtastic node and batteries, but this sensor isn't available anymore, it seems.</p><p>So I bought 2 other brands I've used: Thirdreality and Sonoff. They have both been fairly solid for me.</p><p>Sonoff is more compact and uses a magnetic mount to make battery changes and whatnot easier, but it uses a coin cell battery of a size that is different from every other device I have. This makes something like 5 different coin cells I would now have to keep track of. It's larger than a 2032 and it should last longer, sure. But these oddball sizes like 2477 are more difficult to find and often WAY more expensive.</p><p>I got some Thirdreality door sensors to replace some failing ones that also used an oddball coin cell size, but these new ones use AAA batteries. Sure, the sensors are a little larger, but that doesn't bother me. AAA batteries are easy to get, cheap, and should last longer than these coin cells. So I was pleased to see their temp sensor also used AAA batteries.</p><p>The Sonoff joined my zigbee network easily and started working pretty quickly. However, zigbee2mqtt had trouble interviewing the Thirdreality sensor. This is the first Thirdreality device I've had trouble with. I did manage to get it to complete an interview. Thankfully, just retrying the interview a couple of times got it fully functional.</p><p>I'm going to put both of them in the box and evaluate them. I might replace my Centralite sensor with whichever one I end up liking most. I really like the idea of switching as much as possible to sensors that use more standard batteries, though. Hopefully Thirdreality pushes a firmware that makes these work better. In my experience, they do maintain their firmwares rather than fire and forget.</p><p>It's kinda interesting my Zigbee devices seem to be coalescing on just a small number of brands (Philips, Thirdreality, Sonoff, possibly Sengled, seeming to move away from Centralite).</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Zigbee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zigbee</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/zigbee2mqtt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zigbee2mqtt</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Centralite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Centralite</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Sonoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sonoff</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Thirdreality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thirdreality</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IoT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IoT</span></a></p>