by Chris__M » 05 Jun 2018, 07:49
More on Inkbird range. As mentioned, it is getting from behind my garage, the length of the garden (about 1.5 standard garage lengths) and into the conservatory/back of the house with no problem. Moving further into the house risks losing the signal, and the front of the house (where my home office is) is no chance.
However, if you are like me and like an easy to check monitor, it is pretty simple to mirror your phone to your desktop; placing the phone within range, and then monitor temps on your desktop. I've got an old unused phone that I am going to set up with mirroring and simply leave plugged in in the conservatory, which means I will be able to log onto it from anywhere in the house (Inkbird to phone is by BT; phone to rest of house relay is by WiFi).
The Inkbird app has an optional alarm that triggers when you lose the signal, which is handy.