Re: Temperature Logging

[Nick Shore <nick.shore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam Walker wrote:
> I am looking at trying to log temperatures in the garage and around
the
> house.
>
> So am looking at a cheap way of logging Max and Min temperatures, at
first
> on a daily basis
> But maybe then looking at it in more detail i.e. a reading logged
every
> hour.
> Probably be PC downloadable?
> I could maybe spare an old laptop to do some of the work if this opens
up
> the possibilities
>
> Can anyone think of some cheap ideas to do this?


As others have mentioned, using 1-wire is good, using a usb adapter and
owfs is a simple way to do it, using cacti to collect and graph is
pretty easy too.

see http://cactiusers.org/ for an easy to
install iso


An alternative is one of the wireless weatherstations such as the WS8610
http://www.skyview.co.uk/mailorder/acatalog/WS8610_Thermo_hygro_desktop_with_PC_recording.html

http://tinyurl.com/yhalh6

which can monitor up to 4 sensors and the logging can be downloaded to a
pc over usb.

hope that helps

Nick.



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