The ELV TFD500 data logger collects temperature/humidity data for up to 590 days (temperature only: up to 888 days) via an integrated sensor and makes these data available via a USB interface.
Make sure your Linux kernel supports the TFD500 device
usb 7-1: New USB device found, idVendor=18ef, idProduct=e032
usb 7-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 7-1: Product: TFD500
usb 7-1: Manufacturer: Silicon Labs
usb 7-1: SerialNumber: JCCBIAHE6OVJBC9F
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic
usbcore: registered new interface driver cp210x
usbserial: USB Serial support registered for cp210x
cp210x 7-1:1.0: cp210x converter detected
usb 7-1: reset full-speed USB device number 2 using ohci-pci
usb 7-1: cp210x converter now attached to ttyUSB0
otherwise patch drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c as shown below
and recompile the module cp210x.
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/cp210x.c
@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ static const struct usb_device_id id_tab
{ USB_DEVICE(0x1843, 0x0200) }, /* Vaisala USB Instrument Cable */
{ USB_DEVICE(0x18EF, 0xE00F) }, /* ELV USB-I2C-Interface */
{ USB_DEVICE(0x18EF, 0xE025) }, /* ELV Marble Sound Board 1 */
+ { USB_DEVICE(0x18EF, 0xE032) }, /* ELV TFD500 Data Logger */
{ USB_DEVICE(0x1901, 0x0190) }, /* GE B850 CP2105 Recorder interface */
{ USB_DEVICE(0x1901, 0x0193) }, /* GE B650 CP2104 PMC interface */
{ USB_DEVICE(0x1901, 0x0194) }, /* GE Healthcare Remote Alarm Box */
Check out the repository and execute
./autogen.sh && ./configure && make
The compiled tool can be executed as follows:
./src/tfd500
usage: ./src/tfd500 [options]
-s, --status
-r, --reset
-c, --clear
-f, --firmware
-g, --gtime
-t, --stime
-e, --settings
-u, --dump
-h, --help
-d, --device <string> [default: /dev/ttyUSB0]
-i, --interval {10, 60, 300} secs
-m, --mode {0, 1}, 0: temperature, 1: temperature and humidity
-v, --verbose {error, warn, message, info, debug} [default: message]
version: 0.0.1 © 2017 by Thomas Stibor <[email protected]>
make clean
make oldconfig
make prepare
make modules_prepare
make modules SUBDIRS=drivers/usb/serial modules
Collected data can be fetched with command
> ./src/tfd500 -u > tfd500.csv
and subsequently plot with the provided R script plot.R as follows
> ./src/plot.R tfd500.csv
- Alternative Software für Temperatur-/Feuchte-Datenlogger TFD-128 und TFD-500 (Windows only)
- USB-Datenlogger TFD 128 am Linux-Rechner (Conrad/ELV)
This project is licensed under the GPL2 license.