Hello,
What would be the best way to receive information from a serial port (or USB serial connecter) and then post the data to the web (GET/POST) for an affordable price?
I'm trying to make a power meter that reads the pulses from the LED on the front panel of the power meter.
I have a Picaxe-08M with LDR and a serial connector made and working, it outputs the number "1" on to the serial port every time the LED on the panel pulses. My problem is: I don't want to have a normal server running only to do that, and wasting power (defeating the purpose)...
Any ideas? Maybe Windows CE?

Thanks
- Justin (Newcomer)

 

An XPort might work, not expensive either.

 

Thanks!
I'll look into that

 

You may want to check ladyada's website. She has done just that. Her Kill-a-watt reports to her pc which then updates her website so she can monitor her kill-a-watt readings from the internet.

Pretty much exactly what you want to do.

http://ladyada.net/make/tweetawatt/index.html

She reports to twitter for distribution, but she uses a back end first, that you can have your info posted anywhere.