Re: Record temperature to computer via serial port

["Dave" <cheapscatedave@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alex wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> With electric costs going so high, I want to start monitoring the
> temperature in my home via the computer and see the best way to program
> my A/C to come on and off during the day and at night.  I figure the
> best way is to rig-up a temperature gauge to the computer via serial
> port and write a small Linux script to take the temp and drop it into a
> file with a time stamp.
>
> Can someone suggest such a device which would give me this information?
>  I assume they are floating out there, but searching Google mainly
> returned outdated pages for such devices (some going back to 1999) or
> just plans on how to build one.  Though I don't mind building such a
> device, I've never built something like this from the component level
> before.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions or ideas on this ...
>
> Alex

You may want to look into this:
http://www.phanderson.com/tm127.html
Dave