Dear community.
Does anyone have experience with zigbee temperature sensors powered by “normal” batteries (AA or AAA, preferably rechargeable)? I want to run them with a standard ZigBee USB Stick (Conbee).
Aliexpress seems to be full of them between 1.5€ … 10€, all look the same. Most of them claim to require a “special” tuya Gateway.
Do they work reliably? Are they really the same? Or is this a lottery game according to the price?
Greetings,
exae
Can you post a link to one? Is it because of battery life you want AA or AAA?
Here some examples:
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005008002409039.html
https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005007339698351.html
Reason: standard battery which I have already at home. Rechargeable batteries exist for AAA. I expect it to last longer because of more capacity. Environmental reasons (coin cells contain mercury).
I would not get them. I actually wanted the same as you and got one of them (your last link) and it’s such a PITA to get them running, I gave up. I’ll probably get an aqara or sonoff one and be done with it.
I also hate the cr batteries and want to use rechargeable AAAs because they 1.) last longer (so don’t have to change them so often) and they I have tons of eneloops to use. But I guess it’s not worth the hassle. But please let me know if you find a device.