Re: Temperature Monitoring - 1-Wire or other solution?

[Ben McCormack <yahoogroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim - When you say quit slow what do you mean? Lets say I had 20 temp
sensors.

I have been looking at this following

1-Wire Netowork
links to
opnode unit - 1-Wire to Ethernet + (xAP + xPL - I don't currently use
either of these but may so in future)

Ben

On 5 Aug 2008, at 16:01, Jim Noble wrote:

> Ben McCormack wrote:
> > All
> > What's the best solution for temperature monitoring and logging
> around
> > the house. I have the following need
> > Monitoring of temperature in 10-20 places inside the house
> > Logging of the temperature back to central PC
> > Is 1-wire the best solution?
> >
>
> 1-wire works, although if you have a lot of sensors on a single bus it
> can be quite slow to read all the temperatures.
>
> I've been using a "T.O.M.10" board for quite a while
(although it's
> temporarily de-commissioned due to needing the MSS-100 elsewhere),
> which
> splits the sensors off into separate runs and provides the bus power.
> It's no longer available sadly, but the "TEMP08" board is a
similar
> sort
> of thing.
>
> rfxcom might be worth a look?
> http://www.rfxcom.com/
>
> Jim
>
>



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