Wireless gadgets for .NetMF

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I am looking the the .NetMF for my hobby use. I need a simple temperature sensor and that is actually pretty straight forward however I also need him to be wireless since it will be located approx. 30-40 feet from the mainboard without the possibility to connect with wires.

Been surfing the net without any luck trying to find solution to this maybe a sensor capable of connecting to a wireless transmitter with a receiver on the other end.

Any ideas?

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Welcome to the forum!

In an abstract, you’d typically need:

Sender:

  • temp sensor
  • wireless sender
  • a microcontroller to read sensor and to manage wireless sender

Receiver:

  • wireless receiver
  • a microcontroller to control wireless receiver

To build a list of parts, more details would be needed

Some would be:

  • budget
  • what your base station will be (another microcontroller board? your phone?)
  • what your base station will do with the data (upload to cloud? show on screen?)
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Thank’s for the greet and answer.

My project is small at first, I have a hot tub which does not have a temperature meter but I would like to monitor it’s temperature to see when it is ready. I would locate the meter either in the water itself (providing that I can make it water proof) or attached it to the outside of the hot top shell.

On the receiving end at first I would just like to get the temperature reading displayed on a screen (similar to this 4.3" https://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/product/421) to monitor the temperature manually. Maybe in the future I would like to upload the temperature reading to a DB, web service or something similar but that is not a priority in phase one.

Then challenge I am having is finding where I can buy components to make the temperature reading wireless. I find very little documentation or components on the internet for this purpose.

Hope someone has done this before and has a solutions to this.

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What part if the world are you?

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Europe, Iceland to be exact

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Lol, hence the hot tub.
Doing what you want is pretty easy.
Which way do you prefer, sensor to another netmf board or sensor to phone and or pc?

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I am aiming for sensor to .NetMF so I can build a solution for this, it will not be the only sensor reading I am going to use but probably the only wireless one.

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I have a few solutions that would work…
How small do you want it and how many/type of IO do you need?

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One would think smaller er better but it depends also on price and complexity. The idea for this is to make this a personal project, buying a mainboard similar to FEZ Raptor or Ceberus and build a solutions to monitor the temperature of the hot tub and also other meters or surveillance gear as thing progress.