01-18-2020
This is my last update / post on this Arduino Tick Tock shield for now. I was going to post the details on how to calibrate the thermistor; including taking various measurements, recording the resistance at various temperatures, setting up the Steinhart-Hart Equation and solving it with matrix math, but I'm going to put that off for now.
Basically, this shield is a nice learning tool, with the real-time clock, thermistor, light sensor, display, buttons and LEDs to play with; but the RTC, the light sensor and the thermistor are of such low quality, that it's not really useful for anything more than "a toy shield" for learning and playing around.
The Ardunio Tick-Tock DS1307 RTC Shield was "fun" but not sure I recommend it to anyone, even for under $5 USD.
But on-the-other-hand, I did get my $5 worth playing with it so, as always, YMMV.
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swsensor
SWSENSOR(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual SWSENSOR(4)
NAME
swsensor -- software environmental sensor
SYNOPSIS
pseudo-device swsensor
DESCRIPTION
The swsensor driver provides a software environmental sensor that works with sysctl(8) and envstat(8). The driver is intended to be loaded
as a kernel module. One can, however, include the swsensor driver directly in a kernel using the configuration from the synopsis. By
default, the sensor is of type ENVSYS_UNITS_INTEGER.
The following values can be specified in the modload(8) command when loading the swsensor module to alter the driver's behavior.
Variable Usage
mode Controls whether or not swsensor provides internally-maintained limits and limit checking
Value Meaning
0 sensor has no internally-maintained limits
1 sensor provides its own internal limit value
2 sensor maintains an internal adjustable limit and performs its own comparison between the sensor's limit and its current
value
limit The initial alarm limit value, if limit emulation is selected (i.e., if mode is set to 1 or 2)
value_max
value_min The maximum and minimum values. The corresponding ENVSYS_FVALID_MAX and ENVSYS_FVALID_MIN flags are implicitly set.
percentage This boolean value controls the setting of the ENVSYS_FPERCENT flag.
type Define the sensor's unit/type. By default, a Temperature sensor is created. Any of the string values from the following table
can be specified:
Temperature Fan Voltage AC
Voltage DC Ohms Watts
Ampere Watt hour Ampere hour
Indicator Integer Drive
Battery capacity Battery charge
(Values are case-sensitive, and spaces must be included.)
value Provide an initial value for the sensor. If this is omitted, the sensor's initial value is set to zero.
For example,
modload -s type=Voltage DC swsensor
will create a sensor of type ENVSYS_UNITS_SVOLTS_DC, while
modload -i mode=1 -i limit=50 swsensor
will create a sensor which has an initial, device-provided limit of 50.
The sensor's raw value and state can be manually updated by modifying the sysctl(8) variables ``hw.swsensor.cur_value'' and
``hw.swsensor.state'' variables respectively.
SEE ALSO
modctl(2), envstat(8), sysctl(8)
HISTORY
The swsensor driver was written by Paul Goyette and first appeared in NetBSD 6.0.
BUGS
The swsensor driver emulates a device with only a single sensor.
The swsensor driver can only emulate one hardware-managed limit; this is assumed to be the critical-min limit.
BSD
August 27, 2012 BSD