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

Benjamin Donnachie benjamin at py-soft.co.uk
Thu Feb 25 01:37:12 UTC 2010


On 24 February 2010 16:24, J D Freeman <klug at quixotic.org.uk> wrote:
>> 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.

Seriously thinking about the RS485 weather station instead now...
Seems to me that Maxim are phasing out a lot of the 1-wire devices but
RS485 et al will be with us for a long time yet.

Ben



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