I've used smart things for about three years now. It's a lot of fun! There's a hub connected to my network, with several different sensors connected to the hub wirelessly. I can see motion in different parts of my house, I have garage door sensors set up so that I can tell of the garage doors are opened or closed, I even have a couple of water sensors near than the air conditioning unit and the water heater in case there's a leak.
One of the things that I wanted to do was give my automation that I developed on my phone and different computers a way to get me the outside temperature at my house. I looked at various sensors and didn't want to spend that much money on them. And I kept looking at smart things and wondering why they didn't have something that would just give it to me. After a couple of years I started thinking they might have a waterproof sensor that I can put outside under the back porch and get the temperature that way but I didn't want to spend that much money.
Today I finally came up with the brilliant idea of putting one of their chief sensors in a baggie and hanging that baggie right where I wanted it outside. It's a Ziploc baggie it's waterproof-is waterproof as it could be in a baggie. And it gives me the outside temperature that I cannot get to through my automation. Awesome!
I just wish I had thought of this a little sooner.
