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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!199.232.240.5!news.ziplink.net!zip1.ziplink.net!not-for-mail From: dufault@ziplink.net (Peter Dufault) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Interfacing sensors to FreeBSD Date: 6 Dec 1996 10:37:08 -0500 Organization: ZIPnet Lines: 13 Message-ID: <589ej4$ri3@zip1.ziplink.net> References: <E1nIsI.6E0.G.nanguo@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> <57pos2$2ae@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: zip1.ziplink.net >> Does anyone know how to go about interfacing a temperature sensor to >> a FreeBSD box, so that I can get a temperature readout displayed? > >You need some form of an A/D converter... Check the "whole house temperature monitor" using serial Dallas chips in the FreeBSD home automation page: http://freebsd.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/Therm.html Peter Dufault Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267