[clug] [OT] Monitoring hot water system temperatures
Tony Lewis
tony at lewistribe.com
Wed Aug 4 02:13:17 UTC 2021
Hoping there is enough knowledge on this list to point me in the right
direction.
I'm looking for an IoT device that can measure the temperature of three
thermocouples *in parallel* with its current system usage for our hot
water system, and log or transmit them somehow.
I have a hot water storage system with solar heating. It has a
controller that takes temperature from three probes, and these come back
in to the controller where it decides when to turn on the pumps. The
controller doesn't log the temperatures, but I want to, to understand
the efficiency of the system.
The probes come as bare wires into the controller, and one idea is to
then feed those wires also into some IoT home monitoring system that can
then make the current temperature available over an API or similar. I
know I'd have to do some calibration such that a voltage of X translates
to a temperature of Y.
Question: is there a short cut for this? A prebuilt device I can buy
that will do this with a minimum of fuss? Or are there any other
suggestions?
Thanks,
Tony
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