[time-nuts] Temperature (environmental) sensors

jimlux jimlux at earthlink.net
Thu Jan 5 20:21:44 UTC 2017


On 1/5/17 11:15 AM, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> Yo All!
>
> I am surprised that the TEMPer and TEMPerHUM have not been mentioned
> yet.  They are cheap reliable USB temperature sensors.  The TEMPerHUM
> adds a humidity sensor.
>
> I have several TEMPer's running to log room temp around NTP servers.
>
> The basic TEMPer reads to 0.1°F is only $9:
>
> http://www.pcsensor.com/usb-thermometers/gold-temper.html
>
> I can't speak to its accuracy, but it tracks well with my OXO's frequency
> shifts.
>
> There is the double sensor TEMPER for about $19:
>
> http://www.pcsensor.com/usb-thermometer/temper2.html
>
> I do NOT recommend this one.  The external temp will not match the internal
> temp.  When I put an IR camera on it I found the external temp sensor
> self heats in free ait by several degrees F.
>
> I have not tried the TEMPerHum.  It adds a humidity sensor and is $20:
>
> http://www.pcsensor.com/usb-hygrometer/temperhum.html

I'm kind of curious about their "UI".. hold CapsLock? how does this 
device manifest itself to the host computer? I saw a mention of HID, so 
it is emulating a keyboard?

(which, by the way, is the current strategy for infecting computers with 
USB thumb drives you leave in the parking lot of your victim.. it works 
as a thumb drive, except it also looks for other interesting traffic and 
injects a payload at that time, as if you were on a keyboard..)

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/07/the_fundamental.html


>
> From what I can tell, many different Chinese companies make TEMPer's so
> YMMV.  But hard to go wrong for $9.
>
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