diff --git a/rimecollect-rrd/collect2rrd.pl b/rimecollect-rrd/collect2rrd.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+use strict;
+my $verbose = 1;
+
+####
+# Feed data on stdin from a RIME collect sink
+#
+# Enters data into  rimeaddr.rrd
+# 
+# Creates rimeaddr.rrd from a template if data shows up from a source and 
+# rimeaddr.rrd doesn't exist 
+# 
+# default template is read from default.rrdtmpl
+#
+# if rimeaddr.rrdtmpl exisits, that is used instead.
+
+####
+#
+# Templates are shell scripts that create the desired rrd
+#
+
+####
+# Data messages are in the form of:
+#
+# Sink got message from 1.0, seqno 109, hops 0: len 12 'GPIO29-High'
+#
+#
+
+my $datapattern = 'Sink got message from ([\d\.]+), seqno \d+, hops \d+: len \d+ \'([\w\d]+-[\w\d]+)\'';
+
+sub rrdcreate {
+    my ($newrrd_filename, $tmpl_filename) = @_;
+    open FILE, "$tmpl_filename" or die $!;
+    my $tmpl = <FILE>;
+    print "using template $tmpl found in $tmpl_filename\n" if $verbose;
+    `rrdtool create $newrrd_filename $tmpl`;
+}
+
+while(<>) {
+
+    next if($_ !~ /$datapattern/);
+    print("rimeaddr $1 data $2\n") if $verbose;
+
+    my ($ds,$data) = split(/-/,$2);
+    print("ds: $ds, data: $data\n") if $verbose;
+
+    if(-e "$1.rrd") {
+	# an rrd already exists for this device 
+        # do an update
+	`rrdtool update $1.rrd -t $ds N:$data`
+    } else {
+	# an rrd for this device doesn't exist yet
+	# find a template and make it
+	my $tmpl = "DS:speed:COUNTER:600:U:U RRA:AVERAGE:0.5:6:10";
+	print "creating new rrd $1.rrd...   " if $verbose;
+	if(-e "$1.rrdtmpl") {
+	    rrdcreate("$1.rrd","$1.rrdtmpl");
+	} elsif(-e "default.rrdtmpl") {
+	    rrdcreate("$1.rrd","default.rrdtmpl");
+	} else {
+	    print "can't create rrd for $1: no template found\n";
+	}
+    }
+}
diff --git a/rimecollect-rrd/default.rrdtmpl b/rimecollect-rrd/default.rrdtmpl
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+-s 1 DS:GPIO29:GAUGE:600:U:U RRA:LAST:0.99:1:3600