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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Jeez this took an age to get working but it's done!

A DS18B20 1-wire temperature probe connected to a RPi 3A+, monitoring the temperature of the water in the hot water tank (as best it can; it's just touching the outside of the tank).

Data collection and display is being done by Munin (thanks @darac for the suggestion!) node on the Pi, master on my home server.

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@renbymon @darac Congrats! That kind of stuff is a struggle for me as well, you did a good job! :)

@renbymon @darac Oooh. I've had the itch to have something like that sometime, monitoring temperatures (water, rooms, outside) and currents (solar panel generation, import/export, and perhaps individual circuits too) but I never have the energy to even start on a project these days. Impressive that you've done it! :)

@renbymon Nice work! It's probably not far off the temperature of the water, to be fair. After all, the tank is metal.

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