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Jun 30, 2025 8:58 AM
YoLink Smart Temperature / Humidity Monitor w/ 2 Sensors + Hub
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Really stupid design, highly not recommend!
With regards to battery life - I am not saying that the thing has to report things every min but if I go on the app and say, get me the current temperature, it should be able to do that. Three/four pulls a day - that cannot be all that bad.
And finally the end user should be able to make the trade off on battery life. If a temperature report out at 5 mins causes the battery life to drop down to 6 months, who cares - I.e. cost of 2 AA batteries every 6 months. I don't mind paying that for having a usable device versus useless device.
With regards to battery life - I am not saying that the thing has to report things every min but if I go on the app and say, get me the current temperature, it should be able to do that. Three/four pulls a day - that cannot be all that bad.
And finally the end user should be able to make the trade off on battery life. If a temperature report out at 5 mins causes the battery life to drop down to 6 months, who cares - I.e. cost of 2 AA batteries every 6 months. I don't mind paying that for having a usable device versus useless device.
With regards to battery life - I am not saying that the thing has to report things every min but if I go on the app and say, get me the current temperature, it should be able to do that. Three/four pulls a day - that cannot be all that bad.
And finally the end user should be able to make the trade off on battery life. If a temperature report out at 5 mins causes the battery life to drop down to 6 months, who cares - I.e. cost of 2 AA batteries every 6 months. I don't mind paying that for having a usable device versus useless device.
The sensor is always checking temperature but as you said only periodically wakes up the wireless radio to send it to base. So anything handled app/cloud side can have some lag. But it almost seems like alert thresholds get passed on to the sensor so it will wake up the radio as soon as that temp is reached. At least for my older (but still this style) sensor, the threshold alerts come in at any random time, not the regular intervals.
The sensor is always checking temperature but as you said only periodically wakes up the wireless radio to send it to base. So anything handled app/cloud side can have some lag. But it almost seems like alert thresholds get passed on to the sensor so it will wake up the radio as soon as that temp is reached. At least for my older (but still this style) sensor, the threshold alerts come in at any random time, not the regular intervals.
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