How do you all monitor ambient temps for your drives? Cooking drives is no fun... I think I found a decent solution with these $12 Govee bluetooth thermometers and Home Assistant.

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  • ATC_MiThermometer

    Custom firmware for the Xiaomi Thermometer LYWSD03MMC and Telink Flasher via USB to Serial converter

    I’m using 16pcs Xiaomi Thermometer LYWSD03MMC BLE thermometer around the house with custom ROM from here https://github.com/atc1441/ATC_MiThermometer

  • Tasmota

    Alternative firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32 based devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, Serial or KNX. Full documentation at

    My fridge and other homelab gear is plugged into Sonoff S31 smart plugs (flashed with Tasmota) + Prometheus endpoint exposed), so I can monitor the current and graph that.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • ble_monitor

    BLE monitor for passive BLE sensors

    For those who are interested, the Passive BLE monitor Home Assistant integration supports quite a few thermometers. The Govee support is based on a component I wrote, Home-Is-Where-You-Hang-Your-Hack/sensor.goveetemp_bt_hci/. If you are looking for just the decoder, check out Thrilleratplay/GoveeWatcher.

  • sensor.goveetemp_bt_hci

    Govee Temperature/Humidity BLE Home Assistant Component

    For those who are interested, the Passive BLE monitor Home Assistant integration supports quite a few thermometers. The Govee support is based on a component I wrote, Home-Is-Where-You-Hang-Your-Hack/sensor.goveetemp_bt_hci/. If you are looking for just the decoder, check out Thrilleratplay/GoveeWatcher.

  • GoveeWatcher

    Proof of concept bluetooth broadcast decoder from Govee Thermometer/Hygrometers

    For those who are interested, the Passive BLE monitor Home Assistant integration supports quite a few thermometers. The Govee support is based on a component I wrote, Home-Is-Where-You-Hang-Your-Hack/sensor.goveetemp_bt_hci/. If you are looking for just the decoder, check out Thrilleratplay/GoveeWatcher.

  • Home Assistant

    :house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.

    Home Assistant. https://www.home-assistant.io/

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