[GRLUG] remote temperature monitoring

[desert frag]

Thanks for all the ideas!

I have an extra smartphone laying around ... Galaxy S2.  None of the app's I've found (so far) seem to support monitoring of ambient temps nor some type of temp probe hardware plug-in to the audio jack.   

This would be ideal.  Have you guys run across anything like this?



On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 11:51 AM, Joseph McLaughlin <jwm8351 at yahoo.com> wrote:
 
I have a heated work shop with running water. I have an Arduino with either net and a temp sensor.
I wrote a php program to get the temp from the unit - loaded it into cron so it runs every hour.
If the time is 9 ish I get a text to my phone with the temp... If the temp is too high or low I get a text every hour. The unit will also display the temp to a web site if I wanted to double check things.

Joe



On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:43 AM, Dave Chiodo <megadave at gmail.com> wrote:
 
I've got one of these:

http://www.radiothermostat.com/filtrete/products/3M-50/

Cost about $100 at Lowes.

They have an app (iphone and android) as well as a web-based control. These both use their servers.

The unit does have an http port that speaks JSON to both query the current info (temp, mode, etc) as well as to set or change stuff, but it is no longer documented. *Somewhere* I have a copy of the documentation for it, from when it was still available.

I use it to generate this, along with a usb "TEMPer" thermometer (to measure the outside temperature)

http://geek.megadave.net/tstat/


This is probably complete overkill, but I thought I'd throw it out there for consideration.





On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Patrick TenHoopen <ptenhoopen at gmail.com> wrote:

I used one with Nagios many years back for server room monitoring but is most likely too expensive ($500+) for what you want.  Here's a link to the device anyway:
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>Hey guys, I'm going to be gone from the GR metro area for a couple of months.  Do they make some type of wifi enabled remote temperature monitoring appliance, preferably with some type of text/email alert function, so if the furnace craps out I'm notified?
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