<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:09 PM, - Tethys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tethys@gmail.com">tethys@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Avi Greenbury<br>
<<a href="mailto:avismailinglistaccount@googlemail.com">avismailinglistaccount@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Basically, what I really want is the raw data ("right now it's x<br>
> degrees C"), and to write my own monitoring and logging scripts.<br>
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> [...]<br>
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> Are these commonly available? Am I just looking in the wrong place? Or<br>
> is this the excuse to buy an arduino that I've been half-heartedly<br>
> looking for for a while?<br>
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Yes. I can't remember the manufacturer of the one that's measuring the<br>
temperature in our server room, but it works a treat. It has a serial<br>
interface and it's trivially easy to read. You don't even need to<br>
write any code, you can just do it from a shell script.<br>
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<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=rs232+thermometer" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/search?q=rs232+thermometer</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br><a href="http://www.weathershop.com/temptrax-E.htm">http://www.weathershop.com/temptrax-E.htm</a><br><br>A bit pricey, but you can monitor it with curl which is sort-of cool.<br><br>Rob.<br>