To update the last post..
Port 8 seems to be dead.
Yeah, port 8 wasn’t hooked up. I accidentally connected port 9. It works much better now that it’s connected.
Need to find a new home for the board somewhere in the basement
Home has been found in the basement next to where the upstairs data and phone lines come in.
Need to add another sensor connection
Added, plus I tacked an onboard sensor into the mix. It’s serving as the basement probe.
I need to recover port 4 and remap it…
I haven’t done this yet. I’m looking into whether or not i2c is even in the this boards future or if that is going to hold off until I get a PCB made.
PC code seems to have gone squirrely…
This one has been fun. It seems that the process consumes more and more CPU, slowly, over time. It starts off at .1%, then .2%, then .3% etc, all of the time getting a larger and larger back log of temperature updates. It’s obviously something with how Im using Perl’s Serial::Device module. So running with that, I added a flush routine in to clear out the serial buffers after each read and I altered the update time to only look at the serial port every 1 second. So far, it seems to be working well and the process is now showing as using 0% cpu. We’ll see.