Learned my lesson after a trip last week… I have sensors for nearly everything, but somehow totally forgot about the Fridge / Freezer.

A power outage made my fridge lose it’s mind and turn off cooling, even after it powered back up. Unplug / replug seems to have fixed it, but all the food was spoiled when we got home. Simple $10 temperature sensor could have saved everything!

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    I got this yolink setup June 2022 and it works great. Have not changed the batteries either. The system has notified me a few times like if I’ve put a case of water and beer in. I don’t think this integrates with HA I just needed something that worked and not trying to rig up something. Another must have are water sensors. I’m running 13 govee sensors and been notified few times also.

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08JP39RLP/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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      1 year ago

      Water sensors are the big one for me! I have a mixture of old SmartThings ones, and cheap ThirdReality branded ones (that seem to work fine still!)

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        My govees were cheap and I needed a ton of them, 13. They got great reviews. Wish they would integrate w HA but not currently without trying with rf reader and it’s too important for me I didn’t want to risk this. Last year went to Hawaii for 2 weeks and this is the reason I bought this stuff.
        The fridge and water sensor stuff is to important and should have had it years ago.