[Gllug] Temperature monitoring hardware

[Robert McKay]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:09 PM, - Tethys <tethys at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Avi Greenbury
> <avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Basically, what I really want is the raw data ("right now it's x
> > degrees C"), and to write my own monitoring and logging scripts.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Are these commonly available? Am I just looking in the wrong place? Or
> > is this the excuse to buy an arduino that I've been half-heartedly
> > looking for for a while?
>
> Yes. I can't remember the manufacturer of the one that's measuring the
> temperature in our server room, but it works a treat. It has a serial
> interface and it's trivially easy to read. You don't even need to
> write any code, you can just do it from a shell script.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=rs232+thermometer
>
>
http://www.weathershop.com/temptrax-E.htm

A bit pricey, but you can monitor it with curl which is sort-of cool.

Rob.
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