I was wondering if someone has done something similar:

I want to detect if one of the kitchen burners have been running for a long time. Gas sensors won’t work because the fires are running.

I was thinking that a solution could be to have a wifi-enabled thermostat that sends the temperature to home assistant and if it is above > X for Y minutes, send an alarm/email/notification. The sensor could be hidden below the burners and connected via a cable to measure the temperature.

Does this make sense? Does anybody have some idea how to implement this (maybe using a ESP8266)?

Is there other alternative?

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  • ShepherdPieEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Not sure if I can offer any solution to this, but I would think through how you’ll deal with eliminating false positives like when you’re intentionally cooking something. You might include a PIR sensor to detect whether someone is actually standing at the stove and not send out warnings if movement is detected. Otherwise you’ll get a bunch of notifications about the burners whenever you’re cooking.

    • alvaro@social.graves.clOP
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      1 year ago

      @ShepherdPie@midwest.social I was thinking some kind of HA script that sends me a notification if the temperature is > X during > Y minutes. I rarely use the burners longer than 30 minutes at a time, so if the temperature is high longer than an hour for example, I want to get a notification.

      I can live with annoying notifications the few times of the year I use the burners longer, tbh