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Subject: Re: Room temperature and humidity monitoring with EPICS?
From: Matt Newville via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
To: Jesse Hopkins <jhopkins1 at iit.edu>
Cc: EPICS Tech Talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2023 12:36:49 -0600
Hi Jesse, 

We have a few of the Esensors temperature/humidity sensors in our hutches, including the EM32-Le  https://eesensors.com/products/websensors/environmental-monitor-sensor.html 

These have a simple magnetic mount and an ethernet port.  They provide a simple web app to read the temperature and humidity. But, there is also an HTTP API to get XML or JSON (depending on the generation of the sensor) with the data. Fetching and reading those values and putting them into Epics PVs is pretty straightforward.  I'd be happy to share the Python script we use to read multiple meters and put them into PVs so we can monitor temperature and humidity and put those values into metadata.

--Matt


On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 11:47 AM Jesse Hopkins via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:
Hi folks,

We're looking for a way to monitor humidity and temperature in our experimental enclosures (beamline hutches), with readings that we can access via EPICS. I'd prefer something ethernet based, and low cost is always good. I strongly suspect folks in the EPICS community have already done this in a variety of ways, though I wasn't able to turn anything obvious up in a search. 

Does anyone have a good solution that you're using?

I suspect that if there's nothing else out there I could just buy some analog input boxes (e.g. LabJack or Measurement Computing) and hook up a couple of sensors, but I'm hoping there's a better/cheaper solution.

All the best.

- Jesse

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Jesse Hopkins, PhD
Deputy Director
BioCAT, Sector 18
Advanced Photon Source


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