Hi, my evaporative humidifier just broke and it is time for a new one. What I am looking for
- no cloud/account needed, just local, zigbee, zwave, wifi you name it
- easy integration with hass
- easy to clean
- low maintenance fees (filters and stuff)
- big rooms 50sqm+ so that it has enough “ooompf” Any ideas highly appreciated
I went through a lot of humidifiers for this exact issue until I landed on this guy. https://a.co/d/d9KsgV5
It’s not perfect, but it fit nearly all of my needs (which you listed above). It uses Tyua, so it’s not local UNLESS you set it up with LocalTyua like I did. The only major downside is, it beeps every time you have it do something via home assistant. If you’re crafty, you could probably remove the speaker, but I haven’t bothered (yet).
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Correct, the water gets vibrated into mist and I like evaporation that will also kick up any minerals in the water. You can filter it but that typically doesn’t solve it completely.
Here’s what I did for humidifiers in my house:
- Dumb, analog-controlled humidifiers (like with the knobs, no digital displays, buttons, modes, etc)
- Local control smart plug (Tasmota flashed Sonoff S31 in my case, but it can be anything)
- Humidity sensor (I use the Zigbee Aqara ones)
- Create a Generic Hygrostat entity
Now you’ve got a smart humidifier in Home Assistant. You can set the desired humidity, and when the sensor detects it’s below this, it’ll kick on the smart switch. When it passes the threshold, it’ll turn off. It’s been great! My humidifiers shut off when the water level drops, so I can even use the power monitoring in the Sonoff switch to send me a “low water” alert when the humidifier should be running, but it’s drawing no power!
I did exactly this, and I was so surprised that it just…worked.
Remember everyone, clean out your cold humidifiers at least once a month. Otherwise you are literally just spraying mold spores into the air to breathe in. It is linked to respiratory health problems.
They are great, but need to be well cleaned.
yes, this one is important - does not matter which humidifier you have. I have set a timer in homeassistant to send me regularly a reminder to clean
