[vz-dev] temperature sensor - continued (where does the id come from?)

[Tobias Paepke]

On 28.12.2010 23:20, Justin Otherguy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> we've been discussing the question "where would the temp. sensor get its uuid from?" recently.
> If I understood that correctly, the 1-wire sensors already have unique identifiers with a length of 64 bit; why don't we use that id as part of the uuid for the sensor? We could, e.g., add a menu entry in ethersex that allows to set the remaining 16 bytes that would serve as a board-specific prefix to that id.
> So, there would only be one "uuid prefix" have to be set for every controller. The remaining bits would be those of the sensor.
>
>   
There should be the same process in place to request a uuid for possible sensors, which don't support a uuid. There are a lot of devices out there which don't give you informations of their id's.

regards

T