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Ask HN: What sensors do you have in your home?

5 points by dqpb ↗ HN
I started looking for tools to measure air quality, and found many more commercially available sensors (for various things) than I'd ever considered.

I image more than a few people on HN must have experimented with these kinds of things. What sensors do you use and what metrics do you collect?

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orcs
I have none. I'd never put any in my home unless I had complete control over them. Same goes for digital assistants, no Google home or Amazon echo for me.
Odenwaelder
Temperature and humidity. I'm looking into building a PM10 sensor.
zunzun
My home-made flatulometer is calibrated in sniffs per minute, but the family does not like the calibration experiments.
mothsonasloth
None, I have my physiological senses and that is enough for me.

I don't want a sensor telling me one room is 1C colder than another room. Or controlling my light. Same goes for the Amazon Echo wiretapping for the CIA.