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Hi all,

I'm trying to get my emonTX to take temperature readings from a DS18B20 (with the plan to add more sensors later). I have made a temperature sensor wired up to a jack plug. I tried to upload the temperature search sketch, but I couldn't get anything to come up on the serial monitor. I then realised that a wire had come loose on the temp sensor (due to some dodgy soldering!).

If I'm reading the code correctly, there still should have been something on the serial monitor, as the setup creates a couple of lines of text;

delay(1000);
  Serial.begin(9600);
  Serial.println("Temperature search");
  Serial.println("waiting 6 seconds before printing");
  delay(6000);

This should work regardless of whether the temp sensor was working or not, I am correct?

I'm using the USB to serial UART programmer from the Openenergy store. I assume this can be used for serial monitoring?

I'm a bit of a noob here so could be making a rookie error!

Thanks!