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Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:10:39 +1100
From: Craig Sanders
To: Anth Courtney
Cc: Aussie Isp
Message-Id: <20050106001039.GX12758@taz.net.au>
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Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] temperature monitoring
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On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:11:47PM +1100, Anth Courtney wrote:
> I'm after a temperature monitoring device that is suitable for
> monitoring a small office server room. Something which is reasonably
> cheap and which I can hook into a box (serial/ethernet) and then write
> some dirty scripts to graph results would be more than sufficent.
>
> Does anyone have any hardware suggestions from experience? I'd prefer
> something external to the server (i.e not built-in temp sensors).

two options that i can think of:

1. "1-wire"/"iButton" devices by Dallas Semiconductor (aka Maxim)

http://www.maxim-ic.com/1-Wire.cfm


2. "phidgets", small USB gadgets and sensors and cool geek toys.

http://www.phidgets.com/


both have GPL drivers included in the linux kernel, and probably have drivers
available for other unixes too.

both have temperature sensing devices.

craig

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