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Gigachad • today at 1:24 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

I put the Ikea Thread sensor in my fridge a while back and it's been a lot more useful than I expected. My fridge had been periodically getting too cold or too hot, I suspect the issue is that the captive touch buttons that control the temp get occasionally bumped, changing the set temperature. With the thread sensor I can have Home Assistant send me an alert when the fridge leaves the safe zone for too long so I can manually correct it.

It's also been interesting to see when placing hot food in the fridge how long the temperature stays elevated for. I put the sensor in a ziplock bag and sucked the air out of it so it has weatherproofing.


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askvictor • today at 4:53 AM

And it communicates OK to outside the fridge? I would have thought a fridge is pretty close to a Faraday cage

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tacomagick • today at 5:31 AM

Did you make sure those hot peaks are not your fridge's defrost cycle?

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