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Title: Temperature Monitoring
Post by: James Shields on April 18, 2002, 10:25:13 AM

I run a SME server from home, and do not want to leave the air conditioning on all day, but also mindful of the server getting too hot.

Can anybody advise of a temperature monitoring solution. I am using an Intel D815EEA motherboard, so I believe it has temp sensors, but don't know how to extract the data and then relay to a webpage, email or SMS. Alternatively, is there an external solution that could be connected to SME and relayed.

Any advise would be appreciated.

James

Title: Re: Temperature Monitoring
Post by: Filippo Carletti on April 18, 2002, 05:53:19 PM

I'd look into lm_sensors.
You'll need some time to config appropriately.
To relay to a webpage, some monitoring packages support lm_sensors.

Title: Re: Temperature Monitoring
Post by: Ari on April 18, 2002, 08:22:12 PM

James Shields wrote:
> Can anybody advise of a temperature monitoring solution. I am
> using an Intel D815EEA motherboard, so I believe it has temp
> sensors, but don't know how to extract the data and then
> relay to a webpage, email or SMS. Alternatively, is there an
> external solution that could be connected to SME and relayed.

Hi James,

APC (http://www.apcc.com) offers an environmental monitoring card that fits into the management slot of any of their SMART UPS series.

The part # for the Environmental Monitoring Card is AP9612TH and it will remotely monitor temperature, humidity and other environmental conditions via the Out-of-Band Management Card (which is a different management slot device that provides paging on power events, etc.).

Hope that helps.

Ari

Title: Re: Temperature Monitoring
Post by: Craig on April 21, 2002, 02:34:57 AM

James,

All I can say is that it must be nice to live in a place where you have to leave the AC on.  I'm in the opposite situation........I have to leave the heat on!!!  ha ha

Craig

Title: Re: Temperature Monitoring
Post by: gavin on April 22, 2002, 06:15:05 AM

You could also look at it a bit laterally and try some of the i-button products from Dallas Semiconductor.

I have my e-smith server monitoring several locations at home using digitemp software.


There is a tempostat device that will trigger an inbuilt switch that could drive via a transistor to a solid state relay to control your device.

Just a suggestion,

Regards,
Gavin