Our water boiler doesn't have a way of monitoring the temperature in the hot water tank, so I'm gonna solve that myself with a temperature prob and a small Linux box.

I'd like to take a temperature reading every so often (haven't decided on what frequency yet) and have the results displayed in a graph viewable over http from the comp.

Any suggestions for showing that in the simplest way possible?

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@fatedfox I had seen this when searching but I've found docker to be pretty confusing/my brain can't parse it well, so had discounted it. I'll keep it in mind though, thank you! :)

@renbymon @fatedfox I’m still trying to make head or tail of Docker myself at the minute. Portainer CE looks like it simplifies it quite a bit- I just set it up an hour or so ago.

So far so good?

@renbymon Have a chat with @abby - she's amazingly good with Grafana and making dashboards. She might have some insights for you :)

@fatedfox @renbymon skimming the page quickly I'm not sure there's a need for docker other than they didn't want to tell you how to set up Prometheus and Grafana from scratch. If youe more comfortable installing them both directly on the Pi from the respective project documentation it can't anticipate anything docker is bringing to the table here

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