SensorPush

PRO: The SensorPush app displays readings as current, and in hour, day, week, month and year. Each device can be set with upper and lower limits with alerts and will change the color of the part of the graph above or below the limits to red. When used with the gateway, data can be accessed via the Internet and there is a dedicated web page. CON: The devices cannot be sorted manually (but are sorted alphabetically). The biggest con is when viewing device history the app ALWAYS defaults to hour. This unnecessarily causes frustration when switching between devices to see e.g. day or week view and it always reverts to hour view. I’ve contacted support twice about this easy to fix problem, but the issue still remains in the app.

My only complaint is that to truly utilize the sensors true potential, you have to add another item with the gateway for Wi-Fi access. With that being said, I have my sensor in my detached garage, and I can still get a reading from inside my house 50’ feet away, through walls and air…..that’s pretty dang good for a Bluetooth device! Also, anybody complaining about their phone dying because they have to have their Bluetooth on? Well, you should probably get a new phone……it’s not going to drain your battery by opening the app every once in awhile to check your conditions with the sensor, and there’s really no need to be staring at any monitor 24/7 if you have a correct setup to control whatever environment you’re monitoring…….

I have been using the hardware gateway with several Bluetooth sensors around my house for the last six months. It does a good job collecting and logging data and because the sensors also have internal storage it can catch up with missing data if a sensor has an temporarily goes out of range. The app is stable and has nice graphing and data export features. One thing of note is if you install the app on a new device or haven’t used the app in a while then when you open the app it has to download all the previous history data until it catches up with the current day. This can take quite a while and will become more noticeable over time (especially if you have several sensors). It would be better if it was able to download the most recent day first an prior days in the background.