Temperature tracking has long been one of my favorite aspects of HomeKit. Understanding how the temperature can vary in different parts of my house helped me decide where to use stand-alone fans and adjust our HVAC schedule. Meross recently released a new solar-powered temperature sensor that pairs nicely with HomeKit.
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Installing the meross temperature tracker
The Meross temperature tracker isn’t compatible with HomeKit as a standalone device. Meross has taken the path of leveraging its 433MHz powered hub to bridge its devices to HomeKit. Overall, they work great. Each hub can bridge up to 16 devices to HomeKit. The first step to setting up this product with HomeKit is to grab the Meross iPhone app. You’ll want to go through the process of creating an account if you don’t have one already. Next, you’ll add the hub to your Meross app and likely have the option for a firmware update. Once that is done, you’ll want to put it back in pairing mode (double tap on the sync button), and then you can pair the actual temperature sensor to it. The temperature sensor has a small button on it that puts it in sync mode, and
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