I need to monitor the temperature in my shop via a network connection of some kind. The heater will sometimes quit due to a design flaw and I need to know if the shop temperature drops below 40 degrees so I can go out and reset the heater. Shop has plumbing and I do not want it to ever freeze. I keep it at 50 degrees when I am not in it and depending on what I have going on in the winter months I may not go out to the shop for weeks at a time.
I have a system working with a Teensy 2.0 that talks to a computer in the shop. The computer is tied into my home network and will send me an email if the temp drops below 40. I would like to maybe eliminate the computer.
I purchased an ESP8285 add on for the Teensy 3.2 and a couple Teensy 3.2's to play with. The ESP is a WiFi adapter for the Teensy and hoping I can figure out a way to use it to somehow send a message of some kind over the network to a computer that is in the house but is always on. I can write almost any king of Windows app to run on the computer to receive the messages and even include a browser if necessary.
Where I lack knowledge is what to do with the Teensy/ESP combination to get it to send some type of message over the network. An email would be wonderful but doubt that is possible, really do not know at this point. Guess what I am asking is if using the Teensy/ESP combination will even do what I am asking and if so where do I start? I do not fully understand the capabilities of the ESP and other than setting up a P2P network, networking in general. I have used sockets to communicate between computers but don't think the Teensy/ESP combination will do sockets.
Any ideas?
Thanks
I have a system working with a Teensy 2.0 that talks to a computer in the shop. The computer is tied into my home network and will send me an email if the temp drops below 40. I would like to maybe eliminate the computer.
I purchased an ESP8285 add on for the Teensy 3.2 and a couple Teensy 3.2's to play with. The ESP is a WiFi adapter for the Teensy and hoping I can figure out a way to use it to somehow send a message of some kind over the network to a computer that is in the house but is always on. I can write almost any king of Windows app to run on the computer to receive the messages and even include a browser if necessary.
Where I lack knowledge is what to do with the Teensy/ESP combination to get it to send some type of message over the network. An email would be wonderful but doubt that is possible, really do not know at this point. Guess what I am asking is if using the Teensy/ESP combination will even do what I am asking and if so where do I start? I do not fully understand the capabilities of the ESP and other than setting up a P2P network, networking in general. I have used sockets to communicate between computers but don't think the Teensy/ESP combination will do sockets.
Any ideas?
Thanks