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great product. it works just as advertised. a lot of adjustments can be made, and the smartphone app can make all of them remotely, its super convenient. only a few minor things that i believe could be made better. 1. while the device WILL connect to google home and register as a device, google home has litterally no control over it, or ability to tell what the temperature is. since you can just use the inkbird app (or tuya app) this is really a nonissue. just a suggestion really. 2. the increments of time are quite broad. its not possible to have it log the temperature every minute in history, i believe it only logs every 15 minutes. IT DOES REPORT LIVE AND CONSTANTLY, UPDATING IN MERE SECONDS VIA LIVE VIEW IN THE APP, it is constantly updating and providing a realtime temperature in the app however it only logs the temperature and stores it once every 15 minutes. if it could be changed to log temperature every minute as an option that would be useful. again just a suggestion. its not really that helpful for anything, i just like to see everything going on. 3. upon changing any settings on the temperature controller it automaticly assumes that it needs to start either A cooling or B heating if the temperature isnt exactly what the set temperature is at. also sort of a non issue since once it reaches the temperature it reverts to normal operation, meaning the temperature differential, or the setting that adjusts how far from the set temperature it can change before enabling or disabling the cooling or heating system, once temperature is reached after setting a setting in the app or on the controller, works perfectly fine. however if you just want to adjust it so it 1 degree higher in the cooling differential, if you adjust it so it has a 5 degree cooling deviation instead of four, if the temperature is, lets say 78 instead of 75, although its only a 3 degree difference, since you just set the setting it automatically assumes that the temperature needs to be adjusted until it is at the correct temperature before starting operation normally. (just being clear) this is a setting i would want to have an adjustment on. like "restart device upon changing settings? yes or no" then if no is selected, when temperatures are changed if its still within range itll turn off. an example of how this would be useful is if you wanted to adjust the cooling differential higher so the cooling switch turns off, it will ironically turn it on upon making the change, which will immediately have the opposite effect as intended, until it reaches the set temperature, then will use the input settings and resume normal operation. this is the only issue i could see potentially being problematic if you have this placed somewhere with frequent power fluctuations, because when the device restarts it also does just this. checks the temperature and then goes "is it the exact set temperature? no because its off by .1? turn on the heating or cooling." again, just a small pet peeve, not a major issue, but this could be problematic as a UPS battery backup would likely not be able to power any real kind of cooling device and a high power relay of some sort would have to be used to allow power for any high consumption devices to be drawn from elsewhere and the temperature controller to be the only thing drawing power from the ups. that way when the power returns on the temperature sensor never turned off and does not restart. overall i woudl give 4.5 stars if i could because realisticly this is the only product on the market with these features in general, the features being wifi connectivity and the ability to just plug whatever you want into the controller and control both heating and cooling from the same device, as to save power. just my two cents :)

Works great, easy to setup and use. configurable for 'F or 'C. I like the separate AC outlets on a dongle, but I wonder about the maximum load current capacity of the wiring. I've got a couple 200 watt grow lights and a 600/1500 watt space heater I run to grow tomatoes indoors during the winter. These would overload. I had been using a combo timer/switch with temperature control but after a few months this heavy load killed it. That worked for a while and then it's dinky power switch (relay) quit. So I found this Inkbird and ordered one. I'm sure it would do the job -for a while. As soon as I got it I noticed its quality. So I opened it up. It was an easy do. These days you can tell quality simply by seeing electronic components that have their markings still on the chips. -china removes these markings, but Taiwan and others do not. The Inkbird had all its markings and actually uses a rather powerful microprocessor to facilitate the control process. It remembers its settings when power off and that is an important feature. Very well. Since the last gadget died because of its relay failure, I decided to amp this up a bit. [pun intended] When your crop is dependent on not freezing to death -I hate failures. so.. The Inkbird uses a pair of relays -one for cooling and one for heating. These are separate from each other and rated for 15 amp 120 volt loading. Again, for a while... relays suffer horribly short lives when loaded to the max and cycling on/off many times as a thermostat will do. Then my epiphany.. A trick I use, is to construct a plug-in service box wired with 20 amp 120V grounded sockets, and with a solid-state relay, capable of at least 20 amps AC at 120V. I also use a 16 gage [or more] 3 wire power cord into this box. For extra credit, I use an expensive 'zero-crossing' type solid state switch (SSR). These run a bit hot when powering a 15+ Amp load so I add a big heat sink to the 'SSR' to help extend its life. This type of SSR uses a DC control (one/off) voltage between 3 and 35Vdc, so I add a small 12VDC wall-wart to switch the SSR, and let the Inkbird only power the wall-wart which in turn operates the SSR, which is very low wattage and thus a very light load on the relays inside the Inkbird. Note that this SSR box will operate a window AC as well. Add one of those Kill-A-Watt monitors and you can track the voltage, power and expense of your rig.

Using for Kegerator temperature regulation, as my Insignia would initially only get down to about 39 to 42F. First, I found a set screw on the thermostat in back. Removed plastic housing around thermostat. Turned screw counter clockwise multiple times. This made it too cold, and rather than being careful and doing it slowly, figured it's best to have an actual regulator! Now I have the keg plugged into the regulatory, plugged into the wall. Set at 37 degrees with the probe sitting in cup of water on top of keg. 37 because at the bottom of the kegerator will likely be about 32 then, so the temp difference won't lead to freezing hopefully. Works great and easy.

I bought this for my 110 gallon mixed reef tank because I thought it would be a good idea to have a backup in place just in case of the unlikely event my apex controller just didn’t work correctly. An extra layer of protection seemed worthwhile and I thought using the inkbird power outlet would keep the apex from flipping the outlet on and off so often. It works fine and does its job as advertised. It was easy to set up and connect to wifi and adjust using an app on your phone so you can see the temp and adjust it from anywhere. The controller has a readout of the current temp and can adjust the set value up and down by 1 degree. I have ended up removing it from my system and no longer use it because it had more variation than I liked. I had better precision control on temp using the apex only and kept rock steady temp with .1 degree variance and with the inkbird I couldn’t get much lower than .5 degrees variance. This is fine and wouldn’t be a problem but for corals I want the least possible variation even if it’s overkill. The product is good and works as advertised, just be aware you’re not going to be able to dial it in to get less than .5 degree variance, which is great for 99% of people.

Using several Inkbird products, this one didn't let us down either. Working great in the greenhouse. Temp probe cord long enough to locate wherever you want it, and easy to read/program instructions. The fan we have it hooked up to cycles on/off, instead of running constantly before we added this Inkbird.

So far this device has worked great. I have it turning off and on a small electric heater in a wellhouse that I need to keep above freezing in NW Michigan winter. I really like the fact that if the power goes out it saves its settings and resumes operation when power is restored without my input. Temperature probe matches another digital thermometer, so seems accurate as well.

This is an excellent temperature controller. I use mine for a chest freezer, which I keep kegs of beer in as well as maple sap in the springtime. I have two chest freezers, each one of them using one of these temp controllers. This recent purchase is to replace one that was about 15 years old and the probe finally stopped working properly. I keep the probe in a hot sauce bottle filled with water so that the temperature swing happens slowly while I’m running the freezer up to about 36°F. I suspect that all that time with the probe in the water is probably what killed it but that’s OK. I’ve had it for 15 years and it was only $30 at the time. Things I really like about this temp controller is one it’s digital and it if you hang in the right spot, it shows the set point temperature and the actual temperature. You can adjust how many degrees it can vary before the compressor turns on again. You can also set the number of minutes between compressor shut down and start up to minimize wear on the compressor unit.

They need to add a command fo just STOP. Because in the process of trying to find the right ranges and comfortable temperature - which isn't always the same temperature - if it happens to be running too far - let's say you set to 72. With a 3 degree threshold to cool. Okay it reaches 75 degrees. It tries to cool to 72 but let's say once it hits 73 you feel cold. Too bad. Literally too bad. It will go to 72 no matter what. So you open the app you change it to 73. That'll stop it right? No - now it's gonna heat because it's in activated status. If it was 73.5 setting to 73 won't stop the cold air until it hits 73. Setting to 74 should stop? No. Now it'll heat. But I don't want heat... Too bad. You have to let one of them hit the target temperature set in order for everything to just STOP. Jesus just put an off button that kills whatever it's doing and let's it go back to "listening" mode waiting for temps to get back out of threshold. Or change it so that if the temp gets uncomfortable the user can raise it or such without the heat automatically blasting on because the system is in "reach the target mode" because once it's in reach target state - nothing not even unplugging the thing stops it. You are forced to leave it be until SOMETHING makes the temp reach the target. What if I just wanna turn it off? You don't. You go unplug it. But then - if you ever plug it back in again - it'll fire right up trying to reach the target temp. And let's say you hear the heat or cold come on and you think ah I am already comfortable just where it's at... I'll change the threshold a bit higher so it waits for it to get colder to engage. Nope. Updating the threshold does not force it to reevaluate if it needs to be running. It will finish that cycle, freeze you out, and if you try to raise the main temperature it'll heat you until it hits the target. But then if you try and lower it back down... We'll now the temp in the room is hot enough to activate that new threshold. The update logic needs to be reprogrammed. If you want it to be set in stone at a certain temperature and activation threshold - fine. But if you ever run into any other situation where you need any measure of flexibility or real time adaptation - It's just a pain in the neck.