Not quite related, but I just found out that Microtik(linux) has built in drivers for common Arduino serial chips. I setup an Arduino to monitor 4 different voltages at our solar site. Our NMS just SSHs to the microtik(special login) to pull the average voltages and graph them. I was happy to not add any more equipment other than the power sipping Arduino.
Matt Corcoran | Network Engineer m...@stratospeed.com | 231-680-0062 [signature_1101261039]<http://stratospeed.com/index.html> www.stratospeed.com | 231-774-2112 From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> on behalf of dave <dmilho...@wletc.com> Reply-To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 4:19 PM To: "af@af.afmug.com" <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT odd data connection Ive done alot with Modbus on arduino products interfacing with anything that speaks modbus. I have a server I que or add each thing I want to monitor or review. Temps, Humidity power levels or presence of are the main ones. [cid:image002.jpg@01D67661.4C1DE060] On 8/19/20 11:26 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: On one of my large portable air compressors, there is a data port. They sell an adapter cable for about $200 It adapts it to USB. The program that you use to talk to it makes reference to modbus. The data port has 4 pins. RJ-10 4p4c connector. +5 with enough current to light an incandescent light bulb. +5 low current +5 low current Ground This sounds like USB host to me. One of my sons think it is RS-485 I don’t think USB would be happy on a RJ-10 and utp wire. Maybe it would. Maybe I am just buying a piece of wire with two connectors on the ends. The controller it plugs into is $2000 so I don’t want to experiment on that. Be interesting to see the adapter cable when it gets here. See if there are any active components. I would have probably just wired it up to a USB and tried it if my son had not made the modbus/RS485 comment. Any guesses?
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