Re: Record temperature to computer via serial port

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

http://froggyhome.com/

"Alex" <samalex@xxxxxxxxx> 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returned outdated pages for such devices (some going back to 1999) or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