Re:Show HN: Extend Zigbee sensor range with LoRaWAN
by nogridbag on Monday March 18, 2024 @05:46PM
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I have around 30 YoLink sensors scattered about our house (mainly for detecting water leaks). And for a long time I only had the single hub in the basement on the complete opposite end of the house. I never had any signal issue and they've all worked flawlessly.
I haven't needed to change the batteries on a single sensor yet for multiple years. I did get 2 of their SpeakerHubs which also act range extenders, but it's completely unnecessary since the single hub is perfectly fine wherever you put it. I mainly use the SpeakerHubs as sirens, but they can also do text to speech, e.g. "(Loud Siren) Water Leak detected in master bath".
They've already saved me a couple of times.
I keep reading about all these standards for connected devices e.g. Matter, but in the end these just work perfectly for my use case.
I haven't needed to change the batteries on a single sensor yet for multiple years. I did get 2 of their SpeakerHubs which also act range extenders, but it's completely unnecessary since the single hub is perfectly fine wherever you put it. I mainly use the SpeakerHubs as sirens, but they can also do text to speech, e.g. "(Loud Siren) Water Leak detected in master bath".
They've already saved me a couple of times.
I keep reading about all these standards for connected devices e.g. Matter, but in the end these just work perfectly for my use case.