RE: Temperature Monitoring

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have about half a dozen "spare" TOM10 boards somewhere in
the container...
:-(

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Mark Gardner
> Sent: 20 August 2012 09:06
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Temperature Monitoring
>
> 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)
>
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>
> 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
>
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> 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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