I've read the threads I could find about the Sinope sensor, but they are almost a year old. Those who have the sensor, are you happy with it still? I'm thinking about putting one on my 500 gal propane tank this winter, but was also considering the Mopeka Pro LR sensor.
Have the kinks been worked out? I know @velvetfoot was having some erroneous readings. Was that ever resolved? I know the driver was only able to resolve the actual value to within 5 percent, which is probably good enough for what i would use it for. I just need to know when to call for a refill without hiking through snow to look. My tank is about 75 feet from the house. I'm a bit nervous I may be stretching the Zigbee range.
Maybe I should put a Zigbee sensor out there and see.
I'm having good luck with it. I've been down on zigbee, and this is the only zigbee device I have. Batteries going strong. Good range-better than most, I'd say. Working well on my 1000 gal propane tank. I've got it set to send the temp every 10 minutes, just to know it's alive, lol. Here's a recent snip. I use it for a generator. It's been at 75% since day one. I try to conserve during power outages. Didn't you have a fitment problem with remote-ready sensor, or am I confusing you with someone else?
Awesome. I think I'm going to get one. We are planning on dialing back on the wood heat a lot this year and using more propane, so this will be nice to keep it monitored.
Yes. I never did get it, or a similar one, hooked up to Hubitat via the Smart Implant as you did. It turns on fan when it gets to 200, and turns it up to high at 700. That's it.
Sinope is selling an oil version of the sensor but it sucks. @mikemaxwell can't seem to get a driver tweaked so that it can give consistent readings. Sinope tried to force fit an oil gauge to a propane gauge. They use the same transmitter as the propane setup. They should've gone ultrasonic.
At least its reliable with only the pid controller doing the fan control.
So you think the ultrasonic might be better? The Mopeka is ultrasonic, but has no HE integration. Although I really don't NEED to have it in Hubitat. It would be nice to have a notification when my level gets down to 20 percent, but I'm fine with manually checking it via bluetooth every now and then.
I've been running the Sinope sensor for a few weeks now and it has been reporting temperature reliably every 30 minutes as I requested in its settings. It also has been reporting tank pressure once a day, likely because my tank has not changed from 60 percent since I connected the Sinope.
However, I have not seen any updates in 24 hours. The last update was right before the outside temps dropped from 16degF to around 0degF. Are these sensors bad in the cold?
I'm using the supplied Enerzizer lithium AA batteries. I have the same batteries in other outdoor (Ecowitt) sensors and they are working fine.
My other outdoor thermometers read -3 and -5.
The tank is kind of sheltered, in a hollow.
Is kind of inaccurate in the summer though, I think because of the sun and white tank, but I don't really know.
