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wireless thermostat with ethernet feedback

jessepjessep Posts: 8
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Has anyone come across a wireless thermostat with feedback? My client wants to monitor the temperature of her wine cellar on her touch panel (controlling is not important). There is no wire run.

I guess some sort of RF thermostat with a base station with 232 would work also.

Alternatively, is there a simple, small rig anyone can think of (using a WAP in bridge mode or something) to achieve silimar results?

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  • yuriyuri Posts: 861
    jessep wrote:
    Has anyone come across a wireless thermostat with feedback? My client wants to monitor the temperature of her wine cellar on her touch panel (controlling is not important). There is no wire run.

    I guess some sort of RF thermostat with a base station with 232 would work also.

    Alternatively, is there a simple, small rig anyone can think of (using a WAP in bridge mode or something) to achieve silimar results?

    what i'm guessing is that you can indeed use a network thermostat connected to a WAP in bridged mode. But i'm sure there are wireless thermostats, the question is, how far does the signal need to carry?
  • viningvining Posts: 4,368
    Do you want to know exactly what the temperature is or if the temperature is with in a certain preffered range? Like below 60 degrees. If simple feedback is what you want then a standard wireless T-stat could suffice. If you want to know if the temperature goes above 60 degree just connect and I/O to C and R and set the T-stat to 60 when the temperature is below 60 you'll have an open circuit between C & R or you could do the similar in cooling mode so that when the Temp goes above 60 the T-stat calls for cooling and closes C to Y.

    I believe there are ZIG BEE t-stats or some one else has wireless communicating t-stat. I just can't recall you or where I saw that.


    basic wireless t-stat.
    http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rciautomation/p1.htm
  • viningvining Posts: 4,368
    It just came to me. This link may not get displayed because it has the other "C" 4 company's name in the url. They use the ZIG BEE t-stats.

    http://www.control4.com/cp/46-65194D73/index.htm
  • Spire_JeffSpire_Jeff Posts: 1,917
    You could also explore some of the weather stations that are available. I know I have seen some units that communicate wirelessly with a base station, but I don't have any personal experience with any of them. It's a bit of an overkill, but until the Zigbee offering from AMX is available, it might be easier than trying to communicate with a Zigbee tstat.

    Jeff
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