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We've got an insulated house, heat it properly, ventilate it, but still see humidity levels of 70%+ in bed rooms. How to fix that? (self.newzealand)
submitted 1 year ago by sylverstream to c/newzealand
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We built a house 7 years ago and it's insulated and has double glazing. I've installed Home Assistant with temp sensors in the bed rooms and seeing 70%+ humidity levels. Temperature is always above 16c

We ventilate it, but still it's 70% in the bedrooms. WHO recommends 40-60%, so we're a bit worried.

Living room is around 55% during the day when we have the heat pump set at 21c.

As it's pretty humid outside I think it's almost impossible to get it lower, but are there any other tips? I don't want to run dehumidifiers. Would an HRV like system help?

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[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah thanks! I think I decided not to continue when I saw it didn't support add-ons as I thought that would make it pointless, but it sounds like you can run them in their own docker container and connect them. I've used linuxserver.io docker containers before. Thanks for the tips!

[–] Lemmyin 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey hey. Yeah I’ve been toying with the idea of going to a dockerised setup for HA. I run it as a VM on one of my servers and that’s been rock solid along with add ons and the like.

My moto with this whole HA thing was to always do it as cheaply as I can. That has meant a fair amount of building circuits and such myself which is quite a bit of fun.

Also check out ESPHome. It’s great and integrates into HA very well.

[–] Dave 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll take a look!

I don't think I would know where to start with "building circuits"...

[–] Lemmyin 2 points 1 year ago

Heh it’s great fun and there are tons of guides. It’s just hooking up wires mostly :). I would call it building circuits I guess haha.

[–] sylverstream 2 points 1 year ago

If you want some very specific stuff like height sensors for standing desks (something I still need) you will have to go the self build route. Also to make my dumb alarm smart I have to do some soldering apparently.

That is my next rabbit hole I guess :)

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I run HA as a docker container on unRaid, alongside ESPhome. It works fine - have never had a situation where I wished I was running the OS/VM version of it instead.

TBH though, I kinda hate HA; its really kludgy for anything that I've wanted to do, and a lot of the presence based stuff seems super flakey. I'm constantly getting notifications about Frigate events when it knows im in my home area & they're supposed to be silenced.