Barkeria species

[estación seca]

You can get a home weather station that connects wirelessly to your computer and records the data. They come with outdoor temperature/humidistat, rain gauge, anemometer and display (that has to stay dry.) Costco sells such a thing from time to time, and it's under $100. They are meant to be mounted outside.

Radio Shack also sold base units (not weatherproof) that connected wirelessly to up to 3 small weatherproof digital thermometer/humidistats. This setup didn't connect to the computer, but maybe they do now.

[isurus79]

Originally Posted by estación seca

You can get a home weather station that connects wirelessly to your computer and records the data. They come with outdoor temperature/humidistat, rain gauge, anemometer and display (that has to stay dry.) Costco sells such a thing from time to time, and it's under $100. They are meant to be mounted outside.

This is very interesting!

[Selmo]

Thank you for weather station answer. But I do not want or need a weather station. I do not need to know the wind speed and direction or if it is going to rain, because the barometer is dropping. I just want to know how hot it was and how cold did it get, plus what has the humidity been. This little meter fits the need well but is not quite hardy enough to with stand the environment that we are using it in. Acu-Rite thermometers does not seem to make a outdoor model of this meter. Does someone else?

[Subrosa]

La Crosse makes all that stuff......

[Selmo]

Sorry Katrina, this has gotten way off base, from your lovely barkeria spieces photos. I am soo sorry, I will move this discussion on thermometers to equipment and parts board. Sorry once agian,. but keep on posting your lovely cattleyas and others, We do like what you are doing.

[katrina]

Not a problem...no need to apologize, Selmo. Discussions evolve and grow...it's all good.

All of the devices I've used are accurite and all but those kept in the garage hold up nicely. Not being exposed to direct sunlight and/or moisture is likely the reason mine do fine for me.

[naoki]

Selmo, I used to like Accurate hygrometers, but as you said, it doesn't last (mine last about a year) in high humidity (or place where water get splashed). I tried to fix it (I had about 6 broken ones), but the problem seems to be inside of the LCD (not the elastomeric connection between the circuit board and LCD, which is a common cause of LCD problems).

This might be an overkill, but the sensor is outdoor rated, and AcuLink Internet Bridge connects to a website to log all of your data. By adding more $12 sensors, it can monitor up to 3 different zones. So you can see the entire data instead of only min/max from anywhere you can have internet access.
Temperature & Humidity - Web & App Monitoring

If you are handy (and know a little bit of computer programming), you can make something similar with DHT22, ESP8266 (similar to Arduino) and RaspberryPi. I'm pretty happy with this ESP8266 based setup, but this is probably beyond what most people want to do. This page gives details of the procedure:
Meet the Arduino Killer: ESP8266

It probably doesn't matter too much, but by looking at the logger results, Min/Max is a part of the story about the environment.