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"You can read the humidity on the same device that you can't read the solar? If so then is definitely a software problem because the humidity and solar use different parts of the same DS2438 so if you can read one you should be able to read the other." Right! so that would mean that they both...

Hi Eric, Yep both boards seem to work okay in the OneWireViewer. The solar shows up as a device but doesn't return any results - I don't think the OneWireViewer is set up to display the solar info. I'm just not sure what I could be doing wrong. What really blows my mind is that my first...

Thanks Seth, I didn't think this board required power, but maybe with the solar option is does? It does return a temp/humidity value in the OneWireViewer. However, one works with Tim Bitson's Java code (simpleweather) and the other doesn't. Is that odd? I just read about this...

Hi, Any help with this would be much appreciated. I have built a 1-Wire weather station as directed by Tim Bitson's book. All was working fine except for my solar sensor was giving me this error: Error Reading Solar Sensor: com.dalsemi.onewire.adapter.OneWireIOException...

Just for the record, the guys at Hobby Boards took good care of me - great support and response time. I'm grateful. I am now using the DS9790 and it works great! Thanks Bart

Hi - complete noob at this, but very excited. I'm working from the WeatherToys book and have hit a road block (I think). I bought the DS9490R from HobbyBoards and after some digging I realized that it isn't really supported on the Mac. I really don't want to fuss with the workarounds that I...