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External (Hue) sensor into AquaSuite via MQTT?

gavogavo

Junior Member

Posts: 27

External (Hue) sensor into AquaSuite via MQTT?

Wednesday, February 9th 2022, 11:41am

Hi all,

I can't find an answer to this and I am surprised...

I want to get a true(well, more-true) value of ambient temperature to AquaSuite. I have a sensor that I can get into an Influx Database and can then use an MQTT broker to read that data, but I can't seem to get AquaSuite to let me use that as an input. I can send a message to MQTT but I can't receive...

I think something like this would be super valuable because an attached sensor (to the motherboard etc) is giving a reading close to the machine.. it is going to be skewed. I really just want a reading from the other side of the room.

I don't think I can achieve this but if someone does know a way, or even a better method, please do let me know!

Thank you :)

sebastian

Administrator

Posts: 10,610

Wednesday, February 9th 2022, 12:21pm

Currently it is not possible to send / import data from a user defined source to aquasuite.

Remayz

Senior Member

Posts: 704

Wednesday, February 9th 2022, 2:26pm

you could use a longer cable for the NTC? could be worth experimenting, i'm not sure if a few ohms more will make much difference in a 10kohm thermistor.

Not sure it would be useful anyway. The case fans will get air from close to the case, not from the other side of the room. So if your computer sits in a bubble of warmer air which is pretty much the case everytime, and you use a colder reading for ambient, the fans won't answer properly to the real temperature the computer sits in.

gavogavo

Junior Member

Posts: 27

Friday, February 18th 2022, 4:47am

Thanks for your reply on this.

I did some testing, and sitting it inside my case (where both radiators to exhaust via pull), there's negligible difference to the air around the PC.. so I've left it in there for now.

I then created a virtual sensor that changes the water temp to consider the delta to ambient. Awesome

chimcen

Unregistered

Saturday, October 7th 2023, 2:42pm

Any news to this? It would be awesome to import data like temperature from an external sensor by using mqtt...

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