[WTB] Miniserver Gen 2 + 2x Room Comfort Airs

[tarun]

Looking to upgrade my second miniserver and get a bit better control of my bathroom humidities. Before I go spend money on new, figured I would see if anyone is sitting on any of these....

[Simon Still]

I can't help with the hardware but would recommend a third location for humidity measurement.  I started with just a high and low threshold in my bathrooms but found that there were times when ambient humidity was very high when my extract boost would run constantly.

I've now got another location I use as a reference for my high and low levels 

[tarun]

I was going to use an average of non-bathroom non-kitchen room humidities and then add in some buffer to create a threshold for what constitutes a high humidity. The bigger problem is that the light switch humidities are often right by the door so you open the bathroom door on your way out and totally mess up the reading. So need to add a ceiling based one.

I should have gotten combo motion/brightness/humidity/temp sensors for the ceilings instead of these Loxone ones since they would be a lot more useful. Loxone should also have built in temp sensors into the bedside clocks since, you know, that is near where you actually are in a room.

(I was surprised to see behind the scenes that Loxone has done nothing for out of the box functionality for basic fan control, it is nuts at this point that you don't just tell Loxone, here is my layout, here is what equipment I have, and flip a switch and get a reasonable set of defaults. They aren't some brand new company anymore, they should be helping their installers a lot more.)

[duncan]

ive done something similar using zigbee2mqtt and battery zigbee temperature / humidity sensors away from room doors - average the non-wet rooms as a base and a trigger for ventilation at ave+7% or similar, and i have the fans disabled at night so they dont wake people

the sensors using 2 x aaa battery last over a year and are cheap and reliable, my zigbee2mqtt runs bare (not a plugin) on a pi running loxberry (for the ease of backing up an sd image mostly)