From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 5 09:07:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55ADB37B404 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 09:07:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-bl.txucom.net (mail-bl.txucom.net [207.70.175.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 605B043F93 for ; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 09:07:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Received: (qmail 23349 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2003 16:07:50 -0000 Received: from wddl-adsl-nrp2-186.txucom.net (HELO quartz.jimking.net) ([207.70.162.186]) (envelope-sender ) by mail-bl.txucom.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 5 Aug 2003 16:07:50 -0000 Received: from jimking.net (charcoal.ad.lgc.com [134.132.77.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by quartz.jimking.net (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h75G7q5V096188 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 11:07:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Message-ID: <3F2FD657.7080108@jimking.net> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 11:07:51 -0500 From: Jim King User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723 Thunderbird/0.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Proniewski References: <53574812-C75D-11D7-9B0D-0030654D97EC@patpro.net> In-Reply-To: <53574812-C75D-11D7-9B0D-0030654D97EC@patpro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: temperature acquisition on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:07:55 -0000 Patrick Proniewski wrote: > Hello, > > (I'm not sure if it's the right ML for this question, if not, please > disregard this post) > > I would like to plug on my freebsd box (router/firewall/small http > server) a handle of temperature acquisition probe, but I can't even > find the proper hardware. > I would like something to plug on the serial port (or USB port) that > allows me to record temperature with up to 5 probes (at least 2 > probes, but 5 or more would be great). > In terms of software, I've absolutely no idea how it's supposed to > work, but something that feed data into a database would be great > (rrdtool, mysql, whatever...) I use one of these: http://www.spiderplant.com/hlt/index.html to run seven probes around my house. Unfortunately, they're no longer being manufacturered, but it might give you some ideas on what to look for, or how to build your own. Jim