diy meat curing chamber

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Hi, first post, I've never done an arduino project, but Im comfortable with coding and electronics.

I want to improve my meat curing chamber - essentially a humidity and temperature controlled box where you put salted meat inside for long periods of time (months) to turn the raw meat into deliciousness.

My current setup is separate humidity and temperature micro controllers that turn on/off a freezer and a dehumidifier located inside the freezer.

I'd like to try to do this a bit better and make it my first arduino project.

So ill be sensing temperature and humidity inside the fridge, and based on that, controlling the fridge, and controlling the dehumidifier. Id also like to log the temp/humidity data and be able to view it online, using a web browser, as Im away from home 2 weeks at a time for work.

Comments, suggestions?

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There is a basic tutorial on using the Arduino as a webserver;

You could use an SD card to store temperature and humidity data which could be displayed on the webpage.

If the existing separate micro controllers already work quite well then, rather than replacing them, my thought would to have the Arduino sit above them. The Arduino would be a sort of SCADA.

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As you want network connection do check out the ESP8266 chip (development boards that use it include NodeMCU and WeMOS - highly Arduino compatible but much more memory and built-in WiFi). It has far less I/O pins than Arduinos but it seems you don't need those anyway.