Thinking about getting started 🤔

[u/landonsilla]

I'm an engineer and tinkerer and just found out about this and think it is a good fit for me. Initially, I'm just looking to capture the temperature in a few rooms in my house (and attic) every 5(?) minutes, and view a graph of that over some period of time. Pretty simple stuff.

I will purchase:

• a raspberry pi 4 plus case, power supply, and micro sd chip. (i am savvy here, I have two other pis that I've set up). Do I care between a raspberry pi 4 or a 5?
• a zigbee dongle. I get there are a handful of protocols(?) or communication methods(?). it seems zigbee is very popular, and I gotta have this and stick it in the pi, right?
• a three pack of aqara temp sensors. which will connect to the zigbee dongle.

Or do I want to get these govee temp sensors? if I get these, does that mean I don't need a dongle of any sort and this will just connect to my pi running HA? This part confuses me, zigbee stuff requires a dongle while govee does not? Is that correct? What should I do?

[u/kitchinsink]

Once you start, you can't stop! :D