That's just... Where we put it? He can't move it or knock it down off the wall, and there's nowhere to put it on the outside as the chord would prevent the door from closing... He can't move the probe - we glued a little part of the chord behind the probe with a teeny dab of spray foam. We can't put the probe on the outside as the enclosure is wood.
He he has a heat mat between 2 tiles of slate.
we have a thermostat to measure the temperatures, but not a hygrometer.