Temperature sensor for boiler

Questions & Help
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Hi,

I have a 500L boiler/buffer tank at home and I want to control the temperature of the house through Homey. However I want to be able to read the temperature of the boiler to know if I need to start extra heating. The boiler has special temperature sensor holes.

After searching for a long time I found that Fibaro has a smart implant that can add an external temperature sensor that can be placed inside the boiler. However its a bit technical and its using zwave. While the rest of my house is Zigbee.

After searching further I found several Tuya wifi based temperature sensors however, that makes the reading cloud dependant. I dont want to make the heating of my house dependant on the cloud. Does anybody know any alternatives on the Fibaro smart implant?

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Qubino switches also have an option to connect an external temperature sensor, but they are also Z-Wave and not cheap. But if you need also a switch to control your boiler, maybe that’s a option.

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Shelly Plus with temperature sensor?

https://www.shelly.com/en-nl/products/product-overview/shelly-plus-add-on/shelly-plus-add-on-1x-ds18b20

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I’m using for the boiler, kettle and other things several BleBox tempsensor. Works great with homey without any cloud or so. tempSensor - BleBox

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Thanks for the replies, by the looks there are several alternatives to Fibaro. Both cheap and pricy. I will look into the various products.