Getting my hot water temperature into home assistant

remoteboy · 2025-03-14 09:41:32

This is my hot water tank. It’s a dual immersion set up. I’d like to get a reading into home assistant so I can tell whether or not I have hot water and roughly how much (the insulated tanks aren’t very conducive to the old put your hand on it and see if you burn yourself test 😂). I have two Dallas sensors hooked up to a…

14-03-2025 09:41AM

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This is my hot water tank. It’s a dual immersion set up. I’d like to get a reading into home assistant so I can tell whether or not I have hot water and roughly how much (the insulated tanks aren’t very conducive to the old put your hand on it and see if you burn yourself test 😂).
I have two Dallas sensors hooked up to a Shelly unit and reporting to HA. The last step is to poke a couple of small hole in the insulation to slide the sensors into. My question is where would be the best placement? Was thinking the top one would be where the ridge is and the bottom one would be halfway between the two elements but that’s really just a random guess. Does anyone have any specific suggestions? Thanks.

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