Check out the latest kitchen accessory from AcuRite! The Digital Refrigerator/ Freezer Thermometer is essential to ensure the ideal temperature for food storage in your home.
Easily identifiable icons make it clear which sensor gets placed inside the fridge and which goes in the freezer. Plus, the handy suction cups paired with elastic bands allow you to hang the sensors in the most convenient spot for you. Hang it, stick it, or move it around if it gets in your way. Either way, as long as these sensors are inside your fridge and freezer, you will have the peace of mind knowing your food is stored in ideal conditions. The sensors are rated from -40°F to 158°F (-40°C to 70°C).
The wireless temperature sensors report to the stainless steel magnetic display that blends into the front of your stainless steel fridge or freezer. If you prefer a more discrete location for the display, there’s a hole in the back for hanging on the wall. You can also simply place the display on the countertop with the convenient tabletop stand. Lights flash when data is sent to the display every 30 seconds and indicator lights on the display show connectivity to the sensors. Lights on the display will flash if the signal is lost from either sensor.
By default, an alert system in the display will tell you when the temperature of the fridge or freezer is out of ranger for longer than 5 minutes. (This is to prevent false alarms due to temperature changes while loading or unloading the fridge or freezer). The preset alarms will flash and beep when the refrigerator temperature is below 33°F (0.5°C) or above 40°F (4.4°C), or when the freezer temperature is below -20°F (-28°C) or above 0°F (-17.8°C). Not happy with these preset thresholds? Feel free to go in and adjust them yourself. The display is easy to use and program, with easy-read numbers and buttons on the front of the display. Another bonus feature is the display logs 24-hour high and low temperatures, as well as all-time high and low temperatures for both sensors.
These sensors are all wireless; the display takes 3 AAA batteries. Each sensor requires 2 AA batteries (use standard alkaline batteries, lithium batteries are recommended for the freezer).
This is another great sensor to add to your smart home monitoring toolkit to keep a watch on your home or business. AcuRite Meteorologist (and Mom of two), Kari Strenfel, wishes she had these sensors this summer when her 4-yr-old daughter grabbed a popsicle out of the freezer one evening. A few hours later, they noticed she didn’t close the freezer door completely, causing six bags of breastmilk to spoil! Well, Kari learned her lesson and no longer stored the milk in the freezer door, but rather in the very back of the freezer. If Kari had installed sensors, she would have been alerted as soon as the sudden drop in temperature was detected. Comment below on your favorite AcuRite home monitoring tools or share your stories about how a fridge/ freezer sensor could have saved your food from spoiling!
27 comments
In an alarm condition is this system capable of sending an alert signal to your smart phone which would be nice in situations where you weren’t home.
Looks like a great product.
Sounds OK, BUT NO Price.
I think i’ll pass
Kinda like AT&T puts an add on TV, has you sign up for service, then you find out you just signed a 2 year CONTRACT you CAN’T get out of.
Where can one buy these and how much are they? Can we get a price brake on more than one unit.
Since we are dealing with food, and obviously temperature is important which is why we would opt for monitoring. How do we know the temperature is accurate and can you recalibrate it if it is off?
What is the pitch of the alarm? I have hearing problems and can’t hear my watch beep. Even the doorbell is lost if behind one closed door. I’d be happy to purchase this device if it could integrate with your weather display or its Internet connection. Seems a “Smart Home” device would have central data collection!
This is a great start but it would be nice if this could integrate with a smart hub like SmartThings. Then you would be able to push alarms to your phone and set up rules and actions…
Are there plans to make these sensors send the temps via the Acurite Access device. I have currently the 5 in 1, and three other temp sensors tied through the Access hub. If you have plans to make the sensors communicate with the hub I will pass for now.
Do these work with the Internet Access device like my 5-in-1? Can rules be set up for alerts on the phone app using Internet Access?
Can the display be added as a sensor/device to my Acu*Rite Access to make it part of my smart home, or is this just a stand-alone product?
Seems it would be more important for this to have the ability to communicate to a phone than the weather sensors. I didn’t bother adding that to my phone, as I can’t do anything about the weather. But I can do something about my fridge or freezer temp. If I’m out of town and it sent an alert to my phone, I could ask a trusted neighbor who already has a key to my house to check it out for me so I don’t come home to spoiled food.
I would love a single version, as well, for my standalone freezer.
I currently use the standard outdoor sensors with Acurite Access.. They work perfectly fine. It also sends me a text message when preset limits are exceeded.
How do these sensors differ from the stand-alone indoor/outdoor temperature and humidity sensors that do work with AcuRite Access?
What is the range? Not concerned about my refrig/freezer combo, but a separate freezer in another area and would like to place the freezer sensor there and the frig sensor in the main, about 20 feet away. Also, is brushed stainless the only option ?
Will these units interfere with my three weather units.
You could always just get two 592TXR tower sensors that are compatible with the access and put them in the fridge/freezer. Unfortunately the Access has a limit of 7 devices.