A while ago I've started thinking about creating my own intelligent room thermostat with a Raspberry Pi, because Nest just wasn't there, and I believe you can save a lot with a learning thermostat, and my experience with a couple of them supports this idea.
Had to start somewhere, so first I wanted to measure room temperature, and see what exactly happening depending on the weather, sunlight, etc. Purchased a USB thermometer called TEMPer2 on e-bay, and put together a small system. This is the result, the current state of things:
Will go into the details later, for now these are the basics:
- A small ruby script reads the temperature from the USB thermometer, and a cronjob saves the JSON output of it into a log file.
- The log file is monitored with a local instance of fluentd, which forwards the data read to my VPS also running fluentd.
- On the VPS, fluentd stores the data in ElasticSearch.
- The data in ElasticSearch is visualized by running Kibana on the VPS.
