Arduino Your Environment: Determining your Dallas 1 wire address

Arduino Your Environment: Determining your Dallas 1 wire address

Determining your Dallas 1 wire address

1-Wire devices, such as the DS18B20 digital temperature sensor, are great to use with Arduino boards because you can connect many of them to a single IO pin. The freely available software libraries and example code make using 1-wire devices simple. There is only one problem we have seen with the examples on the web. If you have more than one device connected to a single pin, say an indoor temperature sensor, as well as an outdoor temperature sensor, how does your Arduino know which is which?