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Evaporative Humidifier (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by bazingabot@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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Hi, my evaporative humidifier just broke and it is time for a new one. What I am looking for

no cloud/account needed, just local, zigbee, zwave, wifi you name it
easy integration with hass
easy to clean
low maintenance fees (filters and stuff)
big rooms 50sqm+ so that it has enough "ooompf" Any ideas highly appreciated

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did exactly this, and I was so surprised that it just...worked.

[–] rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.io 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's amazing, I think it still requires YAML config, which is a barrier for some folks. Also a bit annoying that it doesn't have it's own dedicated "restart" button like Generic Thermostat, so you have to restart all of HA for the changes to generic_hygrostat to apply.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, I didn't do exactly that. lol. But same setup.

I made my own humidity sensor with a DHT-11 connected to an ESP-8266 running ESPHome. I'm pretty sure it was automatically detected through the ESPHome integration, so that was one less .yml entry I had to maintain.

But yeah, the other end of that was just a tasmota-flashed smart plug hooked to a dumb humidifier that I'd top off every day or so.