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close04 • yesterday at 7:48 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

For most of these small sensors you'll need to crack open the device to find out exactly what hardware is really there. More than once I bought at different times apparently identical Zigbee sensors which behaved very differently and it turned out they were different inside despite having the same model name. Probably a hardware revision thing but with no clear markings. Manufacturer couldn't find some component anymore or not for a good price and instead redesigned the device.

Those who care about the internals are techies who maybe want to build their own or are very curious. Most buyers don't care about that, they care about how well it works in practice. Just like they don't care what RAM chips are used in their phone or computer, what modem, what screen panel, what camera sensor, etc.


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jeltz • yesterday at 12:55 PM

If they change components the properties in this test would also change so not sure I get your point other than that any test is useless since manufacturers change stuff without telling the buyers pr changing model numbers.

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