My thermometers have to be in full shade during a sunny day, or they give me 150+ degree readings. That's convenient that you live within the broadcast range of the thermometer. I am 1/4 of a mile away and it's cost prohibitive to transmit the data that far. I think the cheapest way would be to buy my greenhouse its own smart phone and data plan.

To name a thumb-drive: Bring up the "My Computer" panel. All the connected drives and storage devices should show. Right click on the thumb drive, and then click on properties. At the top of the properties panel is a box for the name of that device. It will be blank if the device has never been named. Type in the name you wish to use and then click "apply". This name is written to the storage device. Thus, when a thumb drive is removed from one computer to another, its name goes with it. A name can be changed or removed by using the steps above. To remove a name, merely delete all the characters in the name box and click "Apply". This procedure also applies to floppy disks. This precedure should work for rewritable CDs and DVDs as well. I'm not sure how it works for for "write-once CDs".

Smile. Hard shot. Got the bug in focus. Very creative way of slipping that in :-). If I post much more, I'll be having to do that, too!

Nice!....I can imagine how lovely it looks when the leaves are turning red! Konrad