Humidity Sensor?

[pstuart]

Anyone know of a way to have control4 monitor and report Humidity levels in a room or cold air return?

[C4RVA]

Not easily. You could use several humidistats to close contacts on a card access contact sensor. That way you could measure like this: Set one humidistat to close at 35 % humidity, one at 45%, one at 55% and 80%. It will give you minimal resolution of the humidity level but depending on what you want to do with the information it could be plenty.

What's the application?

[pstuart]

Live in MN, humidity is a major issue (or lack thereof) in my house. Excessive static build up and electronics don't mix...

Have a whole home humidifier off the HVAC system, but it only monitors the humidity level on the cold air return and outside.

I have no advanced warning if the humidifier stops working. Nor do I have any confidence humidity levels are spread equally across the house.

Also, at work we monitor humidity like mad (commercial printer) as lack of humidity is our worst nightmare, so I could see commercial applications as well.

The humidistat idea isn't a bad one, as it would allow me a "gate" for minimum humidity as a fail safe, but it takes forever to get humidity up to reasonable levels in winter here...

With the house around 70 degrees and outside was -15 overnight, 85 degree spread, humidity drops almost 5 points opening a door It can take 2-3 days to get it back up. It's crazy sometimes...

[thinslis]

Another use for this would be for a wine celler, humidity is very important.