[Gllug] Temperature monitoring hardware

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Robert McKay wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

Hi Robert,

Given that the hottest temperatures are going to occur in your case
couldn't you just monitor the onboard temperature sensors with
lmsensors? Or is your need more complex?

Roger.
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