X-Sense STH0B Smart Thermometer Hygrometer vs YoLink Smart Wireless Thermometer Hygrometer

The YoLink Smart Wireless Thermometer Hygrometer, on a 5 year battery, automations and a wider platform list through its hub. The X-Sense STH0B Smart Thermometer Hygrometer is the lower priced probe for an existing SBS50 base station, with tighter published accuracy and CSV history, and with no automations.

How long it runs, and whether a reading can trigger anything. The YoLink sensor is rated for 5 years and supports automations. The X-Sense STH0B Smart Thermometer Hygrometer is rated for 1 year, needs an SBS50 base station, and has no automation engine. Both need a hub and neither has a screen.

No. The X-Sense probe talks over 868 MHz to an SBS50 base station, quoted to 500 m in the open, and that station holds the Wi-Fi. The YoLink sensor uses LoRa, quoted to about a quarter mile, and needs a YoLink hub. Neither has Wi-Fi on the sensor itself.

A home that already has an X-Sense SBS50 base station and wants another temperature and humidity probe, with alerts, dew point, VPD and CSV export. Bought alone, without that station, it cannot report anything. It is not waterproof.

Someone watching a freezer, greenhouse, coop or outbuilding who wants a long battery and alerts by app, email and text. It is not weather resistant, it has no display, and Google Home is not documented. Apple Home, SmartThings and Matter need a YoLink Local Hub.