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Here’s a neat remote digital thermometer/hygrometer for your humidor that I tried out recently that isn’t awfully expensive and is readily available on Amazon. It’s the Govee Thermometer/Hygrometer. This isn’t necessarily a purpose-built humidor accessory, so it’s made to cover a much wider range of temperature and humidity than we need, and let’s face it, our range of need is very narrow. It’s attractive enough, and sized appropriately for a medium or larger humidor, it would take up valuable real estate in a small humidor. I attached a metal plate the back and have corresponding magnets in various places in several humidors that match up with other hygrometers so I rotate them around to make sure they are all more or less in agreement with each other. An aside, most cigars smoke well out of my humidors anyway, so I’m not anal retentive about the readings, but it’s nice to see if somethings out of whack.

One of the nice features of this unit is the app that is included. This logs everything that’s going on, and alerts if temperature or humidity goes outside of limits that you can set yourself with simple sliders. The downside of this is that it’s a Bluetooth connection, so you have to be relatively close to the unit to sync readings or get alerts. So if you are out of the room, you aren’t going to know any more than you did before. I suppose if you were some sort of geek genius you figure out a way sync to a WiFi network somehow, but that sound like a whole lot more work that I know how to do, and I just got a headache thinking about it. That seems like the biggest flaw in an otherwise nifty little device. Naturally, it allows you to see the temperature and humidity inside your closed humidor without opening it, which took me a minute to realize the value of since the first two humidors I tried it out on have glass, so I can always see a hygrometer without opening a door. It wasn’t until I tried it in a desktop that it occurred to me the utility of being able to get a reading remotely, even if only a foot away. It seems to be as accurate as the other digital hygrometers I have to compare it too, which are Western Digital units.  Obviously this could have many other applications outside your humidor as well, but this is a cigar blog, so I’m unconcerned with those!

 

Govee makes a lot of smart home products as well, many available on Amazon.  I appreciate the opportunity to evaluate this unit, and will look at it again in several months and see how it holds up. The fact that it uses normal AAA batteries is a plus, and tells you the battery level in the app is excellent.

 

That’s all for now, until the next time,

 

CigarCraig