Given the high temperatures here currently and the fact I have been playing with DS18s20 temperature sensors connected to my Pandaboard. I decided to setup some ‘long-term’ temperature logging.

Normally I would store the data just in a plaintext file, but for now I am going to put it in a sqlite database. (I want to run it for weeks, but still be fine grained).

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#!/bin/bash
 
LOG_FILE=temperature.sql
 
if [ ! -f $LOG_FILE ]
then
        echo "Create database..."
        sqlite3 $LOG_FILE "create table temperature(time datetime primary key,sensor integer, value real);"
fi
 
NOW=$(date +%s)
 
TEMP=$(digitemp_DS9097 -c /etc/digitemp.conf -q -t  -o"%C")
 
sqlite3 $LOG_FILE "insert into temperature values('$NOW', '0', '$TEMP');"

Yes it is this simple! No there is not a lot of error checking, but for things like this, its ok.

Now I call this one every 30 seconds. You can do this with cron, currently I prefer running it in tmux with watch.

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watch -n 30 ./temp_log.sh

Later I will make posts on how to plot this with gnuplot.