decent wireless digital thermometer suggestions?

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I am looking for a digital thermometer with separate wireless probe so I can
read temperature readings outside with the digital display inside the house.
Most of the units I'm finding online don't have the greatest reviews,
especially when the temps get cold. If anyone here has suggestions for a
decent unit, I would appreciate it. thanks
 
"AA" wrote in message news:k0lpcb$glp$1@dont-email.me...

I am looking for a digital thermometer with separate wireless probe so I can
read temperature readings outside with the digital display inside the house.
Most of the units I'm finding online don't have the greatest reviews,
especially when the temps get cold. If anyone here has suggestions for a
decent unit, I would appreciate it. thanks

Mine is an Oregon and works fine.
 
Charles wrote:
"AA" wrote in message news:k0lpcb$glp$1@dont-email.me...

I am looking for a digital thermometer with separate wireless probe so I
can
read temperature readings outside with the digital display inside the
house.
Most of the units I'm finding online don't have the greatest reviews,
especially when the temps get cold. If anyone here has suggestions for a
decent unit, I would appreciate it. thanks

Mine is an Oregon and works fine.
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Second that. Good stuff!

http://www.oregoninstruments.com/

--Winston
 
In article <k0lpcb$glp$1@dont-email.me>, "AA" <jAA@jj.net> wrote:

I am looking for a digital thermometer with separate wireless probe so I can
read temperature readings outside with the digital display inside the house.
Most of the units I'm finding online don't have the greatest reviews,
especially when the temps get cold. If anyone here has suggestions for a
decent unit, I would appreciate it. thanks
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I have a La Cross which works OK but requires a complete
re-initialization of everything every time you change the batteries.
Also an older RF-Tech which loses the remote on a fairly regular basis.

Isaac
 
On 8/17/2012 11:53 AM, AA wrote:
I am looking for a digital thermometer with separate wireless probe so
I can read temperature readings outside with the digital display
inside the house. Most of the units I'm finding online don't have the
greatest reviews, especially when the temps get cold. If anyone here
has suggestions for a decent unit, I would appreciate it. thanks
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The ones I have purchased from Oregon Scientific have been decent as far
as performance and reliability but the change of batteries can be a
hassle. The receiver and multiple transmitters in my installation
require re-syncing whenever any transmitter or the receiver have a
battery failure, which forces all the outdoor and indoor transmitters to
be opened and reset buttons to be pushed / batteries to be removed and
reinstalled, in order for them to each chose non-interfering channels
for transmission. This is an annual hassle for me with my 4
transmitters, 3 indoors and 1 outdoor.

I now routinely change all 5 sets of batteries when the first of the 5
units fails to avoid having to redo all of them 5 times a year.
 
isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:

I have a La Cross which works OK but requires a complete
re-initialization of everything every time you change the batteries.
Also an older RF-Tech which loses the remote on a fairly regular basis.
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La Crosse makes the most stupidly designed stuff, I wouldn't pay 2 cents for
another one of their products.

I had a remote temp thing similar to what the OP is looking for, eventually
went bad from the harsh winters around here.

The local Microcenter had a La Crosse weather station (more of a 3 day
forecast thing) with the remote temp sensor, for like $25. It hooks up to
the internet, which is where the forecast comes from. Price was right.

Biggest fucking problem with that thing is, the readout for the remote temp
is in the scroll part of the display. This thing has like a 5" screen, with
useless crap like date and time, indoor temp, todays high and low temps on
the static side, but the outdoor temp is part of the scroll at the bottom.

Even with the scroll set to it's fastest speed and minimal info, it still
takes like 15 seconds for the outdoor temp to display and it's only there
for a second, if that long.

Whats worse, they had an offer to get severe weather alerts for a year (then
apparently pay for it), but all those did was lock up the unit. Other words
the 3 day forcast got stuck at wherever it was while the bottom would scroll
by the severe weather message, it didn't even display the outdoor temp
anymore.

The pain in the ass was, sometimes those alerts came 3 days ahead of time
(like severe fog or riptides), so if the national weather service issued one
for friday and today was wednesday, you got nothing but a stuck forecast and
no outdoor temps for all that time.

The only plus to this with the remote temp sensor is it doesn't need that
ritual of taking the batteries out of everything and putting them back in at
the same time to sync up. The old one was like that.

It's cute to look at and probably accurate but causes so much aggravation
in actual use, they should pay people to use their products.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com
 
Smarty wrote:

(...)

I now routinely change all 5 sets of batteries when the first of the 5
units fails to avoid having to redo all of them 5 times a year.
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I have Oregon Scientific's EMR963HG:
http://www.oregonscientificstore.com/sensors.asp?base=636

Whenever I replace batteries, the unit just starts working
afterward, without any 'reset' needed on either the remote
or base unit.

It is a well designed tool.

(I have no connection to Oregon Scientific other than as
a delighted customer.)

--Winston
 
On 8/18/2012 1:31 PM, Winston wrote:
Smarty wrote:

(...)

I now routinely change all 5 sets of batteries when the first of the 5
units fails to avoid having to redo all of them 5 times a year.

I have Oregon Scientific's EMR963HG:
http://www.oregonscientificstore.com/sensors.asp?base=636

Whenever I replace batteries, the unit just starts working
afterward, without any 'reset' needed on either the remote
or base unit.

It is a well designed tool.

(I have no connection to Oregon Scientific other than as
a delighted customer.)

--Winston

My Oregon Scientific setup is at least 10 years old so perhaps they have
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found a better way to get all of the radios to report without collisions
using time slots, frequency hops, or some other method. Apart from this
inconvenience, I also find their stuff to work just beautifully, with
accurate and reliable measurement and reporting. And they were priced
very low when I looked years ago. Not sure if this is still true or not.

I would recommend them, all considered. Just wanted to warn that this
peculiar issue was one I never anticipated, and does detract from an
otherwise excellent design.

Smarty
 
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Charles wrote:


"AA" wrote in message news:k0lpcb$glp$1@dont-email.me...

I am looking for a digital thermometer with separate wireless probe so I
can
read temperature readings outside with the digital display inside the
house.
Most of the units I'm finding online don't have the greatest reviews,
especially when the temps get cold. If anyone here has suggestions for a
decent unit, I would appreciate it. thanks

Mine is an Oregon and works fine.

Second that. Good stuff!

http://www.oregoninstruments.com/
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In a similar vein, does anyone know of a decent CHEAP wifi temperature
sensor ?

There are hordes of very cheap USB temperature sensors,
but the wifi ones that I have seen cost MUCH more.
 
On 2012-08-20 06:29:09 +0200, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> said:

In a similar vein, does anyone know of a decent CHEAP wifi temperature sensor ?

There are hordes of very cheap USB temperature sensors,
but the wifi ones that I have seen cost MUCH more.
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I didnt notice that but yes this is something to sell definitely !
didnt find less than EUR 140 for one ... really overpriced for what's
inside ...
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the Geiger Repository @ http://kripton2035.free.fr/geiger-repositor.html
 
Kripton wrote in message news:50320f67$0$16482$426a74cc@news.free.fr...
Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote

In a similar vein, does anyone know of a decent CHEAP wifi temperature
sensor ?

There are hordes of very cheap USB temperature sensors,
but the wifi ones that I have seen cost MUCH more.

I didnt notice that but yes this is something to sell definitely !
didnt find less than EUR 140 for one ... really overpriced for what's
inside ...
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Yeah, you can do a USB sensor and a pie for a hell of a lot less than that.
 
On Sunday, August 19, 2012 9:29:09 PM UTC-7, Rod Speed wrote:

There are hordes of very cheap USB temperature sensors,

but the wifi ones that I have seen cost MUCH more.
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Well, USB can handle megabits per second, and WiFi can broadcast
over a building-size volume at many megabits per second.

A good temperature measurement is maybe ten bits of info or less,
and (for typical room-temperature sensing) you only need that
info updated a few times an hour. That's 0.0000001 megabits
per second. WiFi isn't the technology one turns to first, in this
case.

Mass-produced WiFi items include video cameras.
A thermometer in front of a WiFi video camera is cheap.
 
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