Monitoring temperatures with ruby and XRF

I've written about monitoring the temperature using a Raspberry Pi (running a node.js app) and XRF radios from Ciseco, communicating together using LLAP messages.

The hardware setup hasn't changed: a battery powered XRF + thermistor periodically sending LLAP messages with current temperature over radio to Raspberry Pi, where they get logged and processed. Previous software approach was to have a node.js application listen to messages, process them, log them, as well as act as a web server presenting the data to clients. However I was having a hard time making logging work the way I wanted, and figuring out how to make graphs was even more daunting. Another slightly annoying fact was that running a full node server with websockets and all was a bit of an overkill, and it resulted in not so fast (a couple of seconds) response times.

So, I tried a different approach that I like a lot so far. Different programs handling different parts of the task:

The project can be found on github (UPDATE 2018-06-12T23:40:08 has been long gone - there are much better alternatives now). If you want to "deploy" this on your machine, you'll undoubtedly need to edit the scripts a little (adjust directories and such). The scripts are relatively straightforward though.