[GRLUG] remote temperature monitoring

[John Wesorick]

You mean like this? http://thermodo.com/ Most phones don't have an ambient
temp sensor built in. The only one I know of is the S4. It really doesn't
make a whole lot of sense to include them, since most of the time the temp
would read that of your leg.


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:08 PM, desert frag <desertfrag at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
> http://www.nagios.org/products/environmental/esensors
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 9:07 AM, desert frag <desertfrag at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>  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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