Remote hive temperature monitoring?

[Hotburn76]

Anyone know of any gadgets that I can use that would log and record temps in a hive, then go out and retrieve a memory card and download the data? Maybe even a wireless transmission type.  First year beek and am just real curious, I like to watch things progress and data.

[flyboy]

There are lots of wireless thermometers that would work, but recording is a different animal.

I am a bit shy about putting wireless stuff around the bees personally as who knows what delicate electrical stuff is going on in their bodies.

I get headaches from wifi so it is off in our house. Cellphones also give me headaches.

However I am interested in this topic. I would also like weight monitoring devices and started a topic on that. Temperature is a very important part of the equation. It would also be useful to have temps recorded in different places in the hive.

[swflcpl]

You could put together an entire monitor with an arduino or raspberry pi. Temp, humidity,  wireless, logging, etc. all fairly cheaply and compactly.

[Robo]

You can easily do temperature and humidity with an arduino and a datalogger shield. It will store right on an SD card.  With a little extra work (and $$) you could go wireless.  If the hives are close enough, you could also run an ethernet cable to the arduino and capture the data from a remote (inside) pc

[Robo]

Ya, what he said.....;)

[Hotburn76]

Thanks guys!  I have a youth friend at church and I asked him about the products you mentioned and he lit up like a Christmas Tree!  He said he just got done covering both those products in school and built a temp/humidity recorder as his class project!  So he is going to set me up with hourly snap shots of two hives on a SD card already in spreadsheet format for $110.00 bucks!  Thanks again for the insight guys!  Plan on putting these in buy October and hopefully get data from LIVING bees all winter!