grabbyTEMPer

A command line sensor logger for TEMPer1 devices

Uses pcsensor.c by Michitaka Ohno, Juan Carlos Perez and Robert Kavaler

Install intructions (Debian / Ubuntu)

Install libusb-0.1.4 and dev package, build-essential and libargtable2

sudo apt-get install build-essential libusb-0.1.4 libusb-dev libargtable2-dev

Compile

make

Install

sudo make install

Uninstall

sudo make uninstall

Usage instructions

Run log.sh

./log.sh

This will log the temperature every 5 seconds to stdout as a CSV stream which you can pipe to a text file and open in your favourite spreadsheet package later.

To allow non-root users access

automatically

sudo make group
sudo make rules-install
sudo usermod -aG temper <USER>

Reboot to apply udev rules and group settings.

manually

1. Add the udev rule set in /etc/udev/rules.d/ using the 99-temper.rules
2. Add a 'temper' group (using groupadd or edit the /etc/group file)
3. Add users to the 'temper' group
4. Reload the udev rules
   • udevcontrol reload_rules or sudo udevadm trigger
5. Unplug and replug the TEMPer device
6. If groups are not updated or udev still cases trouble (Does work with root permission, but not with user permissions), reboot.

alternativilly

Use commented out lines from 99-temper.rules to allow all users reading the devices.