Temperature & Environmental Monitoring

To-Do / In-Progress List The following items are on my to-do / in-progress list: Fast update for Weather Underground updates Actuators for oww, owfs, owhttpd, HA7Net, etc. Adding computation blocks - so that it will be possible to add, subtract (etc.) values from different sensors together. Add Excel output. People want it. Multiple graphs per view (so you can have one graph for temperature/humidity and a parallel graph for wind, but with different scales or looks. The ability to specify an IgnoreAbove or IgnoreBelow value for each sensor (right now, temperatures at 85C/185F, wind speeds above 100MPH, and humidities above 100% are automatically ignored). WANTED: someone willing to get this running on Windows, and putting together the instructions to do so. Perl is portable, I know that a couple of people have gotten my software to run on Windows using ActivePerl, but if someone gives me the play-by-play, I can put it on this website (with credits). Please help me out! New hardware: Gumstix! HOBO sensors (made by a number of companies) The 232SPDA, an inexpensive multi-curcuit current monitor An autoconfigurator (to build the config file for you, and make new users happier) Got any requests? Let me know! Even better, got any patches? If you add a feature, send me the patches and I will credit you in the code!

Links Interested in monitoring and control? Here are a bunch of interesting links, in no particular order. Make sure you check my supported devices links too... Bwired / Domotica is a site in the Netherlands that monitors a lot of stuff in their household, and has some very cool sensor designs! They have a stunning collection of links on all things monitoring. Derek Yerger is doing investigations into home automation coupled with sensors - neat stuff! He started with an automated control environment for mycology, which has grown... Will Beals (N0XGA) has a site mixing weather sensing and APRS (Amateur Packet Radio System) put together with the help of Russ Chadwick (KB0TVJ). Also check out the Citizen Weather Observer Program. Hobby Boards has lots of 1-wire stuff Power Monitoring Kondra Systemss TrendPoint Systems Veris Industries An inexpensive (and not as accurate) way to monitor power usage with CR Magnetics split core current transformers (you can buy them from DigiKey) and a serial port A/D from B&B Electronics. iButton Hardware/Software from DalSemi SIMAT iButton 1-Wire Hub AAG OneWire Weather Reading an Analog Dial Max Home Davis has all sorts of monitoring, including weather, car, marine... OWFS -- 1-wire filesystem for Linux Brian C. Lane -> DigiTemp (1-wire Temperature Sensor Modules for Linux). He's a "competitor" of mine Peter Anderson is an EE Prof at Morgan State, and has lots of stuff on his site, including Interfacing with a DS2423 Dual 32-bit Counter RFXCom makes wireless sensors HomeSeer sells home automation software and systems (not cheap) Texas Weather Instruments sells really expensive sensors and logging systems. TK Boyd has lots of good links to other related stuff SunSpotWorld - Home of Project Sun SPOT. Very cool, next-generation stuff Zigbee Alliance. Wireless control - links to more stuff... Z-Wave looks promising for control and 2-way communication (better than X-10 by a long shot. I haven't researched it enough to send you to a specific site, but check it out... CIH Equipment is a Florida company that calibrates and rents specialty sensors.