What are the humidity and temperature sensors that can be used with HA? I’m looking for something sub-$50 and preferably off-the-shelf so not looking to use DHT-11/22.
I have a rPi 2 and an Aeon Z-wave stick Gen 5
Thanks!
I have the Aeotec Multisensor 6 and it’s awesome
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I’ll have to give the Aeotec Multisensor 6 a try.
It seems like a bit of overkill for a basement where I just need humidity and temperature.
Are you finding it reliable and accurate with the temperature and humidity measurements?
You have this working within HA? Specifically, the MOTION sensor, does it work? If so, please enlighten me on how you managed this. I got all but the motion (which is what I needed most) sensor to work within HA 
hey sorry for taking so long to answer, I don’t have the reply notification enabled. Yep, I got it working but! I used Domoticz to change option #5 to Binary sensor (see http://d.pr/i/ka4P/qfAJTjXY)
Hope it helps!
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Yes, very reliable and accurate
Well I got the sensor working with the info you provided. Ended up using Open z-wave ctrl panel. Strangely enough I could not get Domoticz installed on my PI 3. SW too old maybe?? After writing the .img file to SD card I tried to boot it without luck… No errors just a pretty colored screen 
Curious if you’re looking for multiple sensors, or just one? The Acurite 592TXR sensors are about $13. The nice thing about them is that they have a unique address, so I have 10 or so around my house. There are couple of ways to get the data from the sensors.
At the moment I’m doing it the “hard” way - capturing the traffic from the Acurite Internet bridge, with some Python code that does the grunt work of decoding. That particular code wasn’t written by me, but the short story is that you can use mqtt to get the interpreted data into HA. (I’m also sending it to a system monitoring software/database for long term storage and graphing)
The easier/cheaper method would be with an RTL-SDR, where the fine folks of rtl_433 already decode lots of sensors, including the Acurite. You’d still need to write the code to get the data into HA, but certainly easier than a DHT setup.
Wow… Because I have the 5inOne weather station by Acurite which has a limit of main sensor + 2 tower sensors I just assumed additional towers was useless to me. Reading your post made a take a second look. The limit is only imposed on the app that Acurite provides. Any tower within range can provide its data.
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Tip on using these tower sensors. I own about 5 Caliber IV temp/humidity gauges all of which are very accurate from 32% to 75% RH. The most any one of these has been off is about 1% throughout the entire range. When I obtained the Acurite towers I was very disappointed with their accuracy. For reasons I dont recall, I removed the back of one of these towers. The accuracy improved immensely holding its own against any of the Caliber IV gauges. So, I removed the back cover from all the towers and they too proved to be very accurate after this mod.
Nice! I based my code off of http://geekfun.com/hackulink/ but am familiar with nincehelser’s code as well. I run the ngrep/ncat on my pfSense firewall, so the Acurite bridge can be anywhere in the house.
The bridge seems fairly picky about sensor placement, and I found the RTL-SDR to be better at picking up the signal. I will probably move to that eventually, and it has the advantage of picking up other sensors. (I have some Oregon Scientific ones lying around) Not that I need all that data, but why not? 
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