It’s a simple enough idea, and with an Arduino and a DHT11 temperature and humidity sensor, it was pretty easy to put together. The clothes dryer used for this experiment was a self-ventilating ...

Sensors in the HomePod smart speakers can tell you how hot it is in your room as well as read the humidity. Here’s how to use the new feature and how to set up Apple Home automations to use the ...

You'll need an Arduino along with a bunch of various sensors to get the project rolling, and once it's all set up you'll have a simple, but cheap system to monitor your home. Head over to ...

Sensirion SHT1x/SHT7x precision humidity and temperature sensor (Octopart search, starting at $25). This isn’t a cheap sensor. Octopart lists a few places to buy it .

Make sure your device is up to date. To use the built-in sensor in the HomePod Mini and HomePod 2, you’ll need the latest Apple software, which in this case means iOS or iPadOS 16.3 or later.

This is a simple arduino project for a soil moisture sensor that will light up a LED at a certain moisture level. It uses Arduino Duemilanove microcontroller board. Two wires placed in the soil pot ...

To get a readout from the sensors, make sure you have updated your iPhone or iPad to 16.3 or later, which should allow you to update the HomePod software to 16.3, then follow these steps. Open the ...

If you're using Amazon Echo speakers at home, you'll find a temperature sensor inside the 2nd-gen Echo Plus (launched 2018), the 4th-gen Echo (launched 2020), and the 5th-gen Echo Dot (launched 2022).