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Or maybe multiple probes? Would love to turn on/off my dehumidifiers base on the humidity instead of just running them on timers. Mine are 400 and 800 watts and was trying to be eco friendly when buying those the new ones have humidity meters on them.


Would love to be able to see the room humidity in order to have on/off controlled by the RA with cell phone being able to turn the outlet on/off.

There's a lot of humidity sensors on ebay for arduino. I'm sure it can be easily integrated with the controller.

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Would $50 be reasonable to you?
That's the best I would be able to do.

My favorite thing about this product is there seems to be no end to what you can do with it. $50 seems fair if plug-compatible with everything else we have.

Let me work something out and I'll come back with what I get.

I'm definately in for one around $50. Put it in my cart already LOL
Im sure with 1200 watts of dehumidifiers it will pay for itself fairly quickly when my power meter spins less. Some months I can probably ditch the dehumidifier or run it less if programmed to first use a fan, then kick in the dehumidifier at a predefined time period if the humidity is over X%.

Thanks again for the awesome product and unheard of support!!!
Im betting anyone with a large system and alot of evaporation would be interested in automating the removal.

Better comfort/less mold & mold spores in lungs/less wood rot possibilities

Here in CA we have the opposite problem...
It's so dry that we have to use humidifiers.

In the part of Illinois I'm in...swampy air is the best term I can use to describe it!

I'd be keen for one as well

Bad allergies in my case,,, Chicago , 400 gallons of saltwater and 900 square foot cement loft are the main factors. Its like an urban swamp inside most the time. Ato usually is up to 4 gallons a day....lol .. so $50 for a probe and use the dehumidifiers i already own , it will save money in the long term on my power bills. I would like to use the ra to make use of fans, and set both dehumidifers to turn on/off based on humidity levels... The central midwest gets a bit humid in the summers...The air is dry in the winters, still run the dehumidifier to keep mold from getting established but not nearly as much.

Ok, update on this....
I received the sensor for testing and it seems to work just fine.
I'd love to be able to have this sensor use the same port as the temp sensors do, just because we can extend them better, but to do that, we would not have a factory digital calibrated sensor and it would mean no accurate measurements
They would be precise, but not accurate.
The other alternative is have them use the same expansion bus as all the other expansion modules do.
But that means a very short range that you would be able to extend this. Just a few feet.
Now, my question to those interested is... Are you trying to measure humidity in the room or somewhere specific that needs to be far away from the expansion hub?
If it is just room measurements, I think this sensor would work just fine.

Here is a graph of my humidity inside the canopy for the past few days.
It ranges from 50% to 60% depending on the time of day.
I'm going to place outside the canopy later to see what I get.

I am looking for a humidity probe for my angel as well. I am setting up a poison dart frog and wanted to control my mister with my reef angel. I will call it my frog angel if I do .. none the less has there been any more work on this and when or where can I buy it. I can put the sensor within two to three feet of my controller. Thanks

The modules I had are not 100% working. They stop working out of the blue and require the module to be unplugged and plugged back in.
I tried working it out with the supplier and wasn't successful.
That's why they are not sold anymore.
I still have them if you don't mind unplugging them every now and then.
I bough a new sensor from another supplier and I'm waiting for them to arrive.

Depending on how often that might not be so bad. I have an older reef angel is there anything else I would need to make it work. What port would it plug into

It plugs into the expansion port on the side of the relay box.

How often did you have to reset it. Was it random or pretty consistent. How much would it cost shipped and I'm not a great coder so I would probably need help on that.

It is random. I'd say once/twice a week.
The wizard still has the humidity expansion in the list.

Ok kool. What I want to do is to turn on an outlet when. The humidity isn't between 70 and 80% below 70 on and above 80 off. How much does this expansion going to cost even if it is still broke. I will deal with the bugs till a better one comes about