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DrJohnZoidberg
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I have the POE one, it's great and works perfectly in HA with a very well supported integration. I also have it configured in Scrypted so I can use it in Homekit.
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I have the POE one, it's great and works perfectly in HA with a very well supported integration. I also have it configured in Scrypted so I can use it in Homekit.
Tinuva
The Magician
Just for fun, if anyone is interested.
Ran an experiment to see what difference a dehumidifier can make. Not the aircon's dehumidifying capability, but rather a unit that is dedicated to only do dehumidifying. It is a 25L dehumidifier.
Originally bought this unit to keep the room where the 3d printer run, as dry as possible and perhaps even filter the air a little bit, it is capable of taking activated charcoal filters.
The experiment, was to see what difference this unit would make to the main bedroom, which has a bathroom where we shower. Keeping the windows closed even while showering, but the extractor fan does kick in automatically if not turned on, when showering based on humidity level spike.
Without looking at any data, I found, the dehumidifier dried out the bathroom, shower floor, towels etc, much quicker than leaving the windows open and only using the extractor fan. The dehumidifier was standing in the ensuite closet area, which sits between the bathroom and the main bedroom. There is no doors here, only is a door at the bedroom side towards the rest of the house.
Grafana graphs:
I removed most data to make the graph a little bit easier to read. The outside and openweather entities shows what the outside humidity is. It is the one that changes the most up and down all the time.
Then I added the lounge and one kid bedroom, to give sort off a baseline of what the house humidity does. The lounge is higher, because open plan, kitchen generates a lot of humidity every time you use a kettle, make food, even the egg boiler and coffee machine. So it is higher than the kids room usually.
Then the bottom two, shows the dehumidifier keep the bedroom/bathroom lower, much lower. They are usually the highest without the dehumidifier, as in, a shower would spike the reading easily over 90% and keep it floating around 65-85% the rest of the day while drying out. With the dehumidifier, spike is still there, but much much lower. But because the air is already dry, I assume the overall humidity just stays lower and everything dries out much quicker.
Even in the bed, when I was sick , after sweating, everything dried out far far quicker than usual.
Unfortunately, the lowest target you can set on the dehumidifier is 40%. So I have never seen it drop below 40%, but was quite nice to see the overall humidity drop below 50%.
Here is the grafana from before the dehumidifier.
So here the outside sensor tops out at 100% humidity, I always knew this couldn't be right, thats why the openweather data is included, that shows we near 100% but rather 90% humidity outside.
Here you can see, the rest of the house are usually close to each other, with the 2 bedrooms the lowest and the lounge and bathroom the highest inside the house, albeit a bit lower than outside.
Ran an experiment to see what difference a dehumidifier can make. Not the aircon's dehumidifying capability, but rather a unit that is dedicated to only do dehumidifying. It is a 25L dehumidifier.
Originally bought this unit to keep the room where the 3d printer run, as dry as possible and perhaps even filter the air a little bit, it is capable of taking activated charcoal filters.
The experiment, was to see what difference this unit would make to the main bedroom, which has a bathroom where we shower. Keeping the windows closed even while showering, but the extractor fan does kick in automatically if not turned on, when showering based on humidity level spike.
Without looking at any data, I found, the dehumidifier dried out the bathroom, shower floor, towels etc, much quicker than leaving the windows open and only using the extractor fan. The dehumidifier was standing in the ensuite closet area, which sits between the bathroom and the main bedroom. There is no doors here, only is a door at the bedroom side towards the rest of the house.
Grafana graphs:
I removed most data to make the graph a little bit easier to read. The outside and openweather entities shows what the outside humidity is. It is the one that changes the most up and down all the time.
Then I added the lounge and one kid bedroom, to give sort off a baseline of what the house humidity does. The lounge is higher, because open plan, kitchen generates a lot of humidity every time you use a kettle, make food, even the egg boiler and coffee machine. So it is higher than the kids room usually.
Then the bottom two, shows the dehumidifier keep the bedroom/bathroom lower, much lower. They are usually the highest without the dehumidifier, as in, a shower would spike the reading easily over 90% and keep it floating around 65-85% the rest of the day while drying out. With the dehumidifier, spike is still there, but much much lower. But because the air is already dry, I assume the overall humidity just stays lower and everything dries out much quicker.
Even in the bed, when I was sick , after sweating, everything dried out far far quicker than usual.
Unfortunately, the lowest target you can set on the dehumidifier is 40%. So I have never seen it drop below 40%, but was quite nice to see the overall humidity drop below 50%.
Here is the grafana from before the dehumidifier.
So here the outside sensor tops out at 100% humidity, I always knew this couldn't be right, thats why the openweather data is included, that shows we near 100% but rather 90% humidity outside.
Here you can see, the rest of the house are usually close to each other, with the 2 bedrooms the lowest and the lounge and bathroom the highest inside the house, albeit a bit lower than outside.
Tinuva
The Magician
Definitely going to do the same. Seems so worth it really. Never knew how good a dehumidifier or more is here in Cape Town. Probably any coastal area.I drilled a hole in the our bedroom wall and ran a 15mm pipe out of the back of the dehumidifier to the garden, never needs to be emptied
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
I've been running a dehumidifier in my place for the past year or so now, one of those purchases I wish I had made ages ago.
I wheel it into the en-suite and have it run during/after showers and in winter every night when I go to bed. My en-suite doesn't have any extractor fan and only a window which I really don't want to open up in winter, plus even with an extractor fan it won't drop the humidity past what it is outside.
Since doing this I've not even had one speck of mould anywhere in the bathroom, and my windows are never misted up in the morning, plus I already have white noise on to sleep and the hum of the dehumidifier fan is soothing
Have mine set to keep it at 50%.
That's with the dehumidifier inside the bathroom with the door slightly ajar, but a HomePod mini next to my bed reads the same trend (the device is just still named incorrectly)
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
That's a damned big brain idea. I should figure out how to do that in my placeI drilled a hole in the our bedroom wall and ran a 15mm pipe out of the back of the dehumidifier to the garden, never needs to be emptied
I never thought about this, but the humidity doesn't bother me. Maybe I should try to run the AC dehumidifier for an hour or 3 every morning.
Tinuva
The Magician
You staying in a coastal area or in-land like Gauteng?
It doesn't bother me directly, but the effects like mould in the bathroom does. Also, the smell clothes in the cupboards get when the humidity levels are very high, which is very common for Cape Town winters.
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
I've found that the dehumidify/dry function on my aircons are not nearly as effective at lower temperature than my dehumidifier, basically the aircons really only work well for this when it's like 22-24C+.
Speaking dehumidifiers - I need to figure out what to paint my bedroom roof with, every winter it gets light mould all over, even with the dehumifier running. Most of it can be scrubbed off round about September - but - it still looks crap.
Yeah but its already there and a free test. I also dont really struggle with damp and mould in my place (CT).
Mista_Mobsta
Expert Member
Ah wow, didn't know you were able to run HA on a NAS. What NAS do you have and how much does the VM detract on the performance of the Synology? Would make my life extremely simple if I could migrate my HA to my NAS...
I'm running HA, MQTT and ESPHome in Docker containers on a Synology DS718+. It doesn't bother the NAS at all. But I don't need Add-ons. So Docker was the best option for me...that and I don't have enough RAM to run an HA VM and I'm too cheap to buy more !
Mista_Mobsta
Expert Member
Nice one! Unfortunately I would have to run on VM as need HA in supervisor mode - also can't upgrade my Synology RAM/Cache so unfortunately I will be stuck with my mini-server. Would have been nice to just consolidate the HA into a single unit.
AfricanTech
Honorary Master
DS723+
18GB of RAM - allocated 5GB of that to the VM
VM consumes around 14 percent of the CPU
HA consumes around 5-10 percent of the VM CPU and 30 percent of it's allocated RAM
Edit: Added 16GB of RAM for around R1200 (landed cost) from Amazon .
Crucial 16GB Single DDR4 2666 MT/s (PC4-21300) DR X8 SODIMM 260-Pin Memory - CT16G4SFD8266
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I'm back on this - I realised my garage door motor (and power) - is right under the roof where I have my pool heating panels, so my new plan is to use an esp device and thermometer taped to the bottom of the roof sheeting - i.e. no weatherproofing needed - can anyone recommened a thermometer for this application?
See post 6872...
I'm an idiot. Tx.