Title. Having some issues with inadequate heat in an apartment and need to compile some hard data. Can’t seem to find something that checks all the boxes. Needs to be under $100.
Thank you.
Edit: Needs to be friendly enough for an old lady to be able to plug it in and turn it on.
An ESP8266 with temp sensor and a script to pull public weather station data with your local temperature readings into a text file is likely the cheapest way.
I don’t think there is any that can record and export data at that price point. I had similar issues in my home and ended up using an Ambient Weather WS-10 display You can get them with various numbers of remote sensors and you a buy additional sensors separately.
I put one sensor outside and scattered the rest throughout my house. That meant I could look at one display and see how the heat or cold was being distributed. It made balancing things a lot easier.
Best of luck!
What you’re looking for is a 2 channel temperature data logger, but it might be cheaper to just buy 2 single channel ones (a really brief search shows some for like $30)
Take a look at the thermometer/hydrometer from SwitchBot (also available on Amazon). $14 each, but available in packs of 2/4 at a discount.
Nearly all SB products seem to have data export from the app. I have three temp sensors (inside/outside/garage), and also use the smart plug mini to monitor and store power consumption data for devices.
Technology connections recently did a video about refrigerators and used temp logging device which I think you may be looking for. Check out the time 18:20 on this video
