At work, we've got to manually take temp checks twice daily, on 5 fridges. It's a pain in the butt, so I got some one wire temp waterproof temp probes, and wired, and hooked it all up no problems.
I've got the serial monitor giving me fridge readouts, but I've got to record all these, and print them out (company wants proof that it's being taken).
I'm happy to leave it plugged in 24/7, but is there any PC programs that can take the data from the serial monitor and put it onto a excel document? (bonus points if it can average the readouts over a 12 hour period).
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I'm happy to leave it plugged in 24/7, but is there any PC programs that can take the data from the serial monitor and put it onto a excel document? (bonus points if it can average the readouts over a 12 hour period).
I'd suggest dumping the results into a relational database rather than a spreadsheet. It gives you much greater flexibility to manage and process the data, and you can still query the data from a spreadsheet if you want.
If you're running in Windows then the software to implement that is all freely available (SQL Server, Gobetwino).