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URL: From mikeflan at att.net Fri Jul 23 05:56:24 2010 From: mikeflan at att.net (Mike Flannigan) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:56:24 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Remote Temperature Monitoring Message-ID: <4C499178.8010702@att.net> 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 From mikeflan at att.net Fri Jul 23 13:31:31 2010 From: mikeflan at att.net (Mike Flannigan) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:31:31 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Remote Temperature Monitoring In-Reply-To: <4C499178.8010702@att.net> References: <4C499178.8010702@att.net> Message-ID: <4C49FC23.9010509@att.net> 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 From jellyson at gmail.com Fri Jul 23 14:30:37 2010 From: jellyson at gmail.com (John Ellyson) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:30:37 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Remote Temperature Monitoring In-Reply-To: <4C49FC23.9010509@att.net> References: <4C499178.8010702@att.net> <4C49FC23.9010509@att.net> Message-ID: Mike, I got a bit busy at work or else I would have responded sooner. (Yeah, I know. Strange idea to actually do some work while at work.) Anyways, I'm doing something like this for our lab at work. Unfortunately, I probably can't share my Perl code (employer's intellectual property rights situation), but I'll try to share the concept and whatever else I can without getting into trouble with my employer. The device that I used is the Digi Watchport/H sensor since we already are using those for some other work. If you're not interested in the humidity readings, you might find the Watchport/T sensor to be more inline with your needs. The link below is for more details from the manufacturer. http://www.digi.com/products/wirelessdropinnetworking/sensors/din-watchport-sensors.jsp#models In my implementation, I set up 4 of these sensors in each of the A/C zones for our lab. I connected all four of them to a single system running Windows. On that system, I set up a Perl script that connected to the sensors using the Win32::SerialPort and used Net::EasyTCP to set up a "telnet" server. The basic behavior is that when a "client" connects, this script would: 1) Connect to a temperature/humidty sensor 2) Retrieve a reading 3) Sending reading to client 4) Repeat steps 1-3 for remaining sensors and then close the connection I set this script (actually I bundled it into a self contained executable using PerlApp from ActiveState) as a scheduled task to run when the OS comes up. Eventually, I probably should update the script to be run as a service. There may be better and/or cheaper methods of accomplishing the same thing, but that's what I used. Let me know if you have any questions about my implementation. Good luck on getting things set up! John Ellyson On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Mike Flannigan wrote: > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mikeflan at att.net Fri Jul 23 17:10:40 2010 From: mikeflan at att.net (Mike Flannigan) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:10:40 -0500 Subject: [pm-h] Remote Temperature Monitoring In-Reply-To: References: <4C499178.8010702@att.net> <4C49FC23.9010509@att.net> Message-ID: <4C4A2F80.2080101@att.net> Thanks a bunch. I did run across that Watchport hardware in my research. It is considered to be a much more reliable solution to this problem. It also appears to be within my price range. I'll look into it further. Mike On 7/23/2010 4:30 PM, John Ellyson wrote: > Mike, > > I got a bit busy at work or else I would have responded sooner. > (Yeah, I know. Strange idea to actually do some work while at work.) > > Anyways, I'm doing something like this for our lab at work. > Unfortunately, I probably can't share my Perl code (employer's > intellectual property rights situation), but I'll try to share the > concept and whatever else I can without getting into trouble with my > employer. > > The device that I used is the Digi Watchport/H sensor since we already > are using those for some other work. If you're not interested in the > humidity readings, you might find the Watchport/T sensor to be more > inline with your needs. The link below is for more details from the > manufacturer. > > http://www.digi.com/products/wirelessdropinnetworking/sensors/din-watchport-sensors.jsp#models > > In my implementation, I set up 4 of these sensors in each of the A/C > zones for our lab. I connected all four of them to a single system > running Windows. On that system, I set up a Perl script that > connected to the sensors using the Win32::SerialPort and used > Net::EasyTCP to set up a "telnet" server. The basic behavior is that > when a "client" connects, this script would: > 1) Connect to a temperature/humidty sensor > 2) Retrieve a reading > 3) Sending reading to client > 4) Repeat steps 1-3 for remaining sensors and then close the connection > > I set this script (actually I bundled it into a self contained > executable using PerlApp from ActiveState) as a scheduled task to run > when the OS comes up. Eventually, I probably should update the script > to be run as a service. > > There may be better and/or cheaper methods of accomplishing the same > thing, but that's what I used. Let me know if you have any questions > about my implementation. > > Good luck on getting things set up! > > John Ellyson > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Mike Flannigan > wrote: > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > Houston at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: