Re: [mh] What to do you for barometer monitoring?

[Marc M. <ma...@me...>]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 06:30:24PM -0400, Charles Sullivan wrote:
> The Oregon BTHR968 works fine with the RFXCOM 433.92MHz receiver in
> variable length packet mode.  It's out of production but apparently
> still available on dealer shelves.
 
Looks like it, yes.
 
> A _possible_ alternative is an RFXSensor 433.92MHz Temperature/BP sensor.
> I no longer see it on the RFXCOM website but you might inquire if the BP
> daughterboard is still available.  (This would probably be the most
> expensive of the 3 alternatives.)

Ok, let's not worry about it then.
A Baro-Thermo-Hygrometer for $34 is pretty hard to beat ;)

> A major consideration however is whether your potential choice of
> sensor is supported in MH.

In which way? If I can get data into it, I can graph it with cacti/rrdtool
and I can somehow get that data into MH one way or another.

Were you referring to this sensor showing up as 3 nice easily packaged ready
to use variables? It might not, but that's not really a big deal for me if
that's what you meant :)

Marc
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