Environmental Monitoring

[Bill McGonigle]

On May 10, 2005, at 11:03, mike ledoux wrote:

> Have any of you done anything like this?  Any recommendations?  My
> quick google searches have only found solutions in the multiple
> thousand range, but which do much more than I need.

I've been looking at this recently for a NEMA box I have in a swamp for  
my neighborhood network's ISP connection.  I'd like to make sure the  
heater and fans are working as expected (and page me if the network  
gear is about to melt).

My current plan is to solder a serial port into a WRT54G and hook up a  
COTS serial environment sensor which are cheap. Sveasoft Alchemy has  
SNMP which I'd like to hook into.  ~$100 if your time is free.  There  
are ~$250 units in Processor.com if you want to buy.

    
http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.rwhitby.net/ 
wrt54gs/serial.html&e=10053

I've been 'meaning to do it' for a couple months but my soldering  
skills top out with slightly larger components (probably I don't know  
what kind of tools to use to do it this precisely).

-Bill
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