> Or I can just create my own protocol.  What I'm doing is not rocket =20
> science, and fairly low speed, so I can do some sort of serial with =20
> the master telling each slave when to send over it's data.  I don't =20
> plan to implement unique serial numbers, because the only thing I =20
> didn't care for with 1-Wire is that the order of the slaves (such as =20
> multiple temp sensors) was unknown until after they were connected.  =20
> Yes, it can be corrected in software (with the user indicating which =20
> one is sensor 1, sensor 2, etc) or by physically swapping sensors =20
> after that.  And I don't need it to be 1-wire compatible.
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> Thanks,
> -Neil.
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The serial number is also used to let a master find out which devices are=20
present on the bus using the Rom Search algorithm. So even if the master do=
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not have prior knowledge about the the serial numbers of the devices that a=
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connected to it's 1-wire bus, using the Rom Search algorithm and the unique=
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serial numbers it can find this information.

There are even some new temperature sensors that uses an extra wire which c=
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bus.

/Ruben
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AB Liros Electronic
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