RE: Temperature Monitoring

["Mark Gardner" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Marc

I managed to get my TOM10 "working" again yesterday, in the sense
that I
can talk to it, but for some reason its not returning any values! So I
guess the board must be dead :( I also read somewhere that the DS1820s
can die over time too. Not sure if Justin is still on this group.....

The TOM10 website seems to have disappeared so I guess I need to find
another solution. Will look at RFXCOM, but "damn expensive" is
not
really in the spirit of UKHA! :-)



-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Marc Fuller
Sent: 20 August 2012 08:59
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Temperature Monitoring

I used to use a TOM10 board as well. It worked very well for about a
year, then sensors started dropping off and the whole system just
stopped one day.
Most likely due to the BUS being damaged, or dry joints on the sensor.



I now use RFXCOM sensors. They work very well and are very reliable..
but it's damn expensive to get started. You need the transceiver,
temperature unit and sensors. If your using with Homeseer, you'll also
need the interface plugin, and if you want charts, RFXCharts (Which I
still haven't got working)



Cheers



Marc



From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Mark Gardner
Sent: 19 August 2012 10:39
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Temperature Monitoring





A while back I put together a temperature monitoring system using a
TOM10 board and DS18S20 sensors.

It has not worked for a while being a low priority to resurrect
following a server death and ultimately it got forgotten.

I'd quite like to get it going again and whilst googling for the
"How-To" (having forgotten how I did it!) I wondered if this is
the best
way to go these days....

Would appreciate any pointers / suggestions please - I would like to
capture data from about 10 sensors initially. Preference would be for
something Ubuntu / VM / USB based.

TIA

Mark

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