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Does anyone have any spare TempLincs?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:35 am
by gmusser
... that they might be willing to part with? I'd really like to do temperature monitoring of my house.
George

Re: Does anyone have any spare TempLincs?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 3:41 pm
by eme jota ce
As an alternative, I've recently had very good results getting temp & humidity data into Indigo variables using Weathersnoop lite and Oregon Scientific hardware. O.S. has a receiver that can receive data from up to 10 temp/hum sensors and can connect to a mac via USB, Weathersnoop can store the data into an SQLite database, from there, I use an applescript to bring it into Indigo.

O.S. hardware purchase was a WMR200_ULTIMATE kit along with additional THGR810 receivers. Kit was on the sales page for greater than 50% off and has several Temp/humidity receivers along with two mac compatible receivers. Online chat guys offered an additional discount code without any prompting.

Setup has been reporting temp / hum data for 9 units into Indigo for about two weeks. No problems. I can say that all nine sensors were consistent while I had them placed very close to each other for about 12 hours before installation.

Re: Does anyone have any spare TempLincs?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 4:04 pm
by gmusser
Nice! I'm not sure I'd want such an elaborate setup - could I get by with just http://us.oregonscientific.com/cat-Weat ... ation.html?
George

Re: Does anyone have any spare TempLincs?

PostPosted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 4:57 pm
by eme jota ce
I'd check the Weathersnoop site for compatibility or send the developer a note to see if that unit will work.

Re: Does anyone have any spare TempLincs?

PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:13 am
by matt (support)
Note that the new INSTEON Energy Display has a built-in temperature sensor. But two caveats: 1) It doesn't ship from Smarthome until the end of August, and 2) Indigo doesn't yet support it.

Re: Does anyone have any spare TempLincs?

PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:49 am
by gmusser
Can the sensor be remotely polled?

Re: Does anyone have any spare TempLincs?

PostPosted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:55 am
by matt (support)
I thought I heard it was possible, but I need to look into it some more. Most of these battery operated INSTEON modules go to sleep when not in use, which makes polling impossible.

Re: Does anyone have any spare TempLincs?

PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 3:46 pm
by bbruck
Matt - 5.0.2 doesn't support the energy display yet, does it?

Re: Does anyone have any spare TempLincs?

PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 3:49 pm
by matt (support)
Not yet. No estimate either, but it is on my desk. However, I have a big desk.

Re: Does anyone have any spare TempLincs?

PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 3:56 pm
by bbruck
Yes, but it is such a CUTE little device, just sitting there and begging "Use me please!!!"