Ambient/room temperature monitoring.

kol12 · Oct 11, 2016

What do you guys use for monitoring your room and ambient temperatures? A digital thermometer?

bignastyid · Oct 11, 2016

I have a wallclock that has a built in analog thermometer.

Karadjgne · Oct 11, 2016

My phone has an app. So far it's been pretty accurate, but I do give it a couple of minutes to adjust.

kol12 · Oct 11, 2016

Karadjgne :

What's the app?

kol12 · Oct 11, 2016

bignastyid :

Cool, is it accurate? Any sort of digital thermometer should work ok shouldn't it? One I'm looking at displays humidity as well.

Wolfshadw · Oct 11, 2016

I have a thermostat on the wall. It shows both current, ambient temps and the setting for when to turn on the heat. Looks like this:

-Wolf sends

kol12 · Oct 11, 2016

@Wolfshadw Cool, I've heard Honeywell makes good things...

bignastyid · Oct 11, 2016

Yeah its accurate. It does humidity and barometric pressure aswell.
http://goodmart.com/products/general-tools-analog-clock-temperature-humidity-barometric-pressure-abc856b.htm

Karadjgne · Oct 11, 2016

Google 'room temperature app'. There's quite a few actually. My MIL has a digital outdoor thermometer and I tested a couple of the 4star apps vrs it. All 3 were within 2°F. However, area tested vrs environment is a concern. Hanging wallclocks and ac controls are at certain heights,either within certain ranges of heat/cool sources or vents and placement of such can and will change the temp. Ie. In a heated room, it's warmer closer to the ceiling, in an air conditioned room its cooler towards the floor. It can be warmer closer to sun facing exterior walls in summer or cooler towards shade facing walls in winter. A 5°F change in temp is easy to attain between areas. Your room is not all one single ambient temp, but variegated in layers and areas. And that's not including the mess that a ceiling fan makes of things.

To get a somewhat accurate reading of ambient temps, according to the pc, you'll need to stick the thermometer about a foot away from the intake fans, at about the same level.

USAFRet · Oct 11, 2016

kol12 :

Well, yeah, I would hope Honeywell makes good things.
Stuff like airliner cockpits, actuators on the ISS, nuke plant control panels. You know...simple stuff like that.

kol12 · Oct 11, 2016

USAFRet :

Ah well that's probably why.

kol12 · Oct 11, 2016

Karadjgne :

I just want to get a general idea of the overall room temp and the temps around the vicinity of my computer or intake fans but I do want accuracy.

I have the Galaxy S4, it has a temp sensor I think right?

jsmithepa · Oct 11, 2016

Your place has no thermostat for heat/ac? Should be something by the control, accurate enough for your purpose.

jsmithepa · Oct 11, 2016

Is that like a Retro Nest?

USAFRet · Oct 11, 2016

jsmithepa :

It's better than a Nest.
It can't be hacked, and it does not phone home with all your usage details.

Karadjgne · Oct 12, 2016

I just like the fact it's one less thing to change batteries in. I've already got 12 smoke detectors, and 9v batteries are bankrupting me...

kol12 · Oct 12, 2016

USAFRet :

I thought it was a bottlecap...

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