Dale Dellutri wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com > <mailto:Bowie_Bailey at buc.com>> wrote: > > Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with > Linux? I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want a > simple > sensor that I can connect to one of my monitoring servers to let > me know > if the server room is getting hot. > > > I;m not sure what you consider "cheap". I've used a Sensatronics > Model E4, > for which I've written my own daemon software to take a reading and log it > every x minutes. I've also had a Sensaphone Model 1104 which can > automatically call multiple phone numbers and play a message about > fault conditions. > > Each of these were in the $400 to $600 range (with sensors). By "cheap", I mean under $100. -- Bowie