[Klug-general] OT: Gardening was Re: Linux weather station!

[J D Freeman]

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 04:15:27PM +0000, Benjamin Donnachie wrote:
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> Excellent points... and the weather station is also available in an
> RS485[1] version.  However, 1-wire seems quite popular for the other
> sensors and I've created quite an interest on the owfs-devel list for
> creating a generic 1-wire slave device! :)
> 
> Will probably return to RS485 if I start doing anything serious with it.

If you are going to the effort of RS485, then I would use RS422, Maxim
make pin compatable chips for changing between RS232/422/485, which makes
changing things dirt simple.

RS422 is wonderful for noisy environments. 

J
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