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Probetemp is a project mainly written in PERL and SHELL, it's free.

DS18S20 Temperature Monitoring over RS232

This is a set of several utilities that allow you to record and graph temperatures from a Dallas DS18S20 compatible sensor over an RS232 serial port. The utilities are:

  • readtemp.pl -- diagnostic utility to test sensor readability
  • probetemp.pl -- capture temperature readings to a TXT logfile and an RRD file
  • gengraphs.sh -- generate PNG graphs from the RRD file
  • runbacklog.pl -- rebuild a corrupted RRD file from the TXT logfile

You will need the following prerequisites:

  • Perl
  • RRDtool