Description:
mcsTemperaute is a Homeseer plug-in that supports data collection, storage, and display of environmental data, event control based on the data, and a web interface that will display the collected data numerically and graphically.
Data are collected from local sensors and the web. The local sensor data can be obtained using internal drivers to the one-wire bus for the Temp05, Temp08, DS9097, DS9490, and Quasar 3145 interfaces; from multiple delimited text files; or from other custom drivers such as the Temp05 and 1-Wire Homeseer plug-ins. Combinations of the interface methods are also supported to maximize the flexibility for data collection. Forecasted temperature and publicly-available current conditions are based on data obtained from the MSNBC or WeatherXML web site.
A wide variety of 1-Wire sensors are supporting including temperature (DS1822, DS18B20, DS1820, DS1921), humidity, barometric pressure, voltage (DS2438), wind direction, voltage (DS2450), rainfall, wind speed, wattage, waterflow, lightning (DS2423), switches & relays (DS2405, DS2406, DS2408), and presence (DS1982, DC1990).
All web interfaces are designed for both 640x480 touchscreen and typical larger PC layouts. Considerable charting customization is possible with selection of of period, intervals, control bands, grouping, color schemes, and screen size. All is done with real time user selection from a browser interface and includes walking charts that update as sensor data is updated in a manner that does not redraw the full browser screen.
Control loops can be selected as device actions to create virtual thermostats or other control functions that run and provide control status. Event triggers can also be specified to detect when a sensor is outside limits, limits, within bands, rate of change, and divergence. Triggers based upon relationship of two sensors can also be specified.