Re: Accessing USB thermometer sensor

[Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>]

Josh Hammond wrote:

> Hello to everybody.
> I have recently purchased a USB thermometer from a chinese ebay store.
> The sensor has no brand whatsoever and just carries the "TEMPer" label.
> 
> I plugged it to my debian unstable box (with a vanilla 2.6.24.4 kernel)
> and it was detected as
> 
> 4348:5523 WinChipHead USB->RS 232 adapter with Prolifec PL 2303 chipset
> 
> I believe this means that it is, at least partly, accessible by a linux
> system (although it seems to do some weird USB-serial emulation).
> I am now trying to access the thermometer, and more specifically be able
> to read the data it provides.
> 
> I realize this is a very broad question, but could somebody point me in
> the right direction to be able to read the temperature from command
> line?
> The only serial experience I have is connecting to a switch's console and
> configuring it with putty/minicom.
> 
> I pasted the outputs from syslog and lsusb but I dont' really see how
> the latter relates to my problem.
> Thanks to everyone that will respond, since now I feel quite lost.

> usb 1-2.2: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0

Does "cat /dev/ttyUSB0" work?

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