On 7/23/2010 7:56 AM, Mike Flannigan wrote:
I'm looking to remotely monitor a digital thermometer
connected to a computer. The computer I plan to
use has USB and Serial. I have to use Windows,
but only because I couldn't get Unix loaded on this
old computer.
I need to export the temp to a location 1,000 miles
away. Haven't decided if I'm using the web, FTP,
Telnet, or what for the data transfer. I want flexibility
where I can write the Perl program to do what I need
to do.
I'm sending this to you guys in case one of you
has already grappled with this. I can see on the
internet that there are about 1,000 options.
Please call me or e-mail the list if you can help
me decide which way to go with this. Buying
something from a local store might be my
best option. I plan to go to EPO and Fryes
today to see what is available there.
I'm think this one is what I need, but I'm to
lazy to do all this work:
http://www.riccibitti.com/pc_therm.htm
This one seem really good:
http://www.spiderplant.com/hlt/index.html
but that first link says they are out of business.
Do these USB powered units work?
http://www.tomtop.com/pc-laptop-usb-powered-thermometer-temperature-sensor-data-log.html
http://www.lancos.com/webtherm.html
http://www.pcsensor.com/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=15
A very interesting one:
http://www.maxim-ic.com/products/ibutton/products/ibuttons.cfm
This one will probably work, given the price:
http://www.americanweather.com/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=48&osCsid=686d544982fe2f42e47e0dfe239aca47
Talk on a blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mcreasy/archive/2004/07/19/187554.aspx
Mike Flannigan
281-286-6869
If EPO or Fry's have these products, they
don't know that they have them.
I'll probably just go with a cheap TemperNTC.
It's a cheap device of dubious quality with
very bad software, but I can probably get it
to work for me. If you do use this thing on
Windows, you probably need one of these
software upgrades:
http://www.alsgh.com/utac/
http://www.play-time.demon.co.uk/ThermoHID/index.html#download
It appears the Chinese manufacturer has
not gotten the thing in good working order yet,
so there is a lot of junk hardware out there.
In fact, I think it's probably all junk, but some
people have gotten it to work to some degree.
Mike
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