Hi
Having just replaced my Davis ISS I wanted to monitor soil temperatures but I can’t justify the costs of the required davis kit to intergrate this with the ISS.
I have since briefly messed about with a DS18B20 waterproof sensor and an Arduino and also a Raspberry Pi which there are simple instructions on the web to set up to record temperatures but the measurements are only available on a local monitor for the Pi or using the serial monitor on the Arduino.
What would be ideal would be to add an ethernet connection to either of the boards and then send it out on the internet to be viewed graphically (if possible). It looks like it has been done but the instructions for doing this are either incredibly complicated or not always complete - I 'm a keen amateur and NOT a programmer so some of the solutions are double dutch to me!! Has anyone done this in a SIMPLE way??
Another option would it is possible would be to interface the DS18B20 with the PC running WD and use that to produce the graph/records?
The stand alone Arduino/Pi option and not interfacing it with WD would not be a major disadvantage as I am really only interested in the soil temperature reaching 8deg C in the spring when I would be looking to put fertiliser on the fields and I have the ability to connect to the internet close to where I would monitor temperatures, but it might be nice to add this to the WD data.
Cheers
David