Wood Stove/Chimney Thermometer

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During the colder months I burn wood in fact I have already started burning. The wood stove is in the basement and is easily forgotten about especially during a busy weekend. I would love to have a wifi or Wyze Bridge enabled sensor that I could use in place of my current anolog chimney thermometer.

Specs:

  1. Magnetic to self adhere to the chimney pipe.
  2. WiFi or use of the current Wyze bridge
  3. Possible integration with Wyze T-Stat
    a. The integration would prevent or limit the use of conventional heating sources when the temperature in the system is above a certain temperature.
    b. Then the opposite should be true if the fire where to go out then the T-Stat should use conventional heat sources.
    c. The third option should happen if outside temperatures are really cold the fire is hot but the house losing heat. The the T-Stat should back up the wood stove to make the house comfortable.
  4. Alerts for high and low temperatures
  5. Possible use of heat as a power source for the sensor with a capacitor for backup when temps drop to low.

Heat is the enemy for all electronics so simple will be the key with the important parts insulated as much as possible.

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One issue I see here is this would be a rather niche product. A general temperature sensor is one thing, but one that could withstand the high heat of a chimney pipe is another. Probably the most common type for that application would be a meat or barbeque thermometer that has remote (Bluetooth or WiFi) access, but that isn’t going to have the integrations you desire.

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This is my setup with the wyze cam and Thermometers from Auber, the flue pipe has an internal probe , stove top has magnet Mount probe .
Stove is cool right now getting ready to put a small load in.

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With a 64 GB SD card in the camera I can go back and check what the temperatures were at any given time during the burn.
I have the cam set for continuous recording and it is set on 360 P , no need for anything better.
Now is good time to set yourself up the Auber thermometers are on sale.
Instruction manual

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I will check them out. I was thinking I could do a similar setup as yours with a cam pointing at my current setup, but I like what you are doing.

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I agree that they wouldn’t sell many of these in Florida however they could do well in just about every state that sees a few feet of snow every year. I also believe the customers in Canada would buy these hand over fist.

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The thing is if you get a camera close enough to read the analog thermometer it’s probably gonna melt the camera

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I have another camera in the room I can see the fire through the stove door but you can tell everything you need to know by the thermometers

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We don’t have indoor wood stoves in the Aloha State, but I can image the need for this device else where.