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Infrared floor temp sensor

Børge shared this question 7 years ago
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I am looking for an infrared temperature sensor, to keep track of floor temp. Anyone know of such a device, that would work with Zipato?


I am fairly new at this. I am looking at this one; http://products.danfoss.com/productdetail/heatingsolutions/floor-heating-hydronics/room-controls/cf2-wireless-floor-heating-and-cooling-control-system/088u0215/#/


But not sure if it would be able to report floor temp back to Zipato. Anyone?

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Hi. It is a far fetched solution, which i haven't tested myself, but it probably will work...


You can use any industrial type infrared temperature transmitter that is sending out a 4-20mA analog signal. This signal can then be read by, for instance, the Fibaro RGBW Controller and let the Fibaro unit convert the analog reading to a z-wave signal.


Converting the 4-20mA to the 0-10V Fibaro input is done by connection a 500 ohm resistor across the Fibaro input.


The reading will be probably have a reading proportional with the range of the termo transmitter. For example, if the range for the transmitter is -50 - +100degC, then 2V will mean -50C and 10V will mean +100C.


Converting the voltage reading to temperature can be done in a rule block that takes Fibaro reading as input and writing the output to a virtual termometer.

http://manuals.fibaro.com/content/manuals/en/FGRGBWM-441/FGRGBWM-441-EN-A-v1.01.pdf

Sensor example

https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=SB_20170301025205&SearchText=infrared+thermometer+4-20ma

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Wow, thank you for a solid answer. I will look into this.

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