Froggy temperature sensors anyone?

[Brendan S (Scratch User)]

I would like something that will log temperatures from about 4 or 5 locations around my house (would need to be wireless), and be able to either download the readings to my computer or poll it in real time. I could do a kit, but would prefer not to. It sounds like it would be very simple and I would expect everyone to have done it, but everyone seems to be concerned with turning the lamps on and off.

I have seen the froggyhome.com stuff and this seems to be what they are intended to do. Am I right? Has anyone used these? It (eg radio weatherbox) talks about wireless froggy sensors, but I don't know exactly what it's referring to - are they the sensors from the pro line?

Is this going to be exorbitantly expensive?
Are there other solutions I should be looking at?
Are there any which could be polled over a wireless network?

TIA

Brendan

[Brian]

Not sure about froogy but alot of people use
http://www.midondesign.com/TEMP08/TEMP08.html

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"Brendan S (Scratch User)" <gobnat@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:4209db2a$0$4609$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au ...
>I would like something that will log temperatures from about 4 or 5
>locations around my house (would need to be wireless), and be able to
>either download the readings to my computer or poll it in real time. I
>could do a kit, but would prefer not to. It sounds like it would be very
>simple and I would expect everyone to have done it, but everyone seems to
>be concerned with turning the lamps on and off.
> I have seen the froggyhome.com stuff and this seems to be what they are
> intended to do. Am I right? Has anyone used these? It (eg radio
> weatherbox) talks about wireless froggy sensors, but I don't know exactly
> what it's referring to - are they the sensors from the pro line?
> Is this going to be exorbitantly expensive?
> Are there other solutions I should be looking at? Are there any which
> could be polled over a wireless network?
>
> TIA
>
> Brendan

[OnHiatus]

This is also a wired solution, and is similar to the above. I use the
IOM142A. It's a bit cheaper and has the advantage of 4 relays to use as
outputs and 4 optoisolated inputs. Limitation is 32 1-wire devices.

http://www.phanderson.com/iom142/iom142.html

I highly recommend it.