jimlux@earthlink.net said: > I'm kind of curious about their "UI".. hold CapsLock? how does this device > manifest itself to the host computer? I saw a mention of HID, so it is > emulating a keyboard? I have a couple of the non-Gold versions. Plastic with a push button. They have one sensor in the USB blob and a second sensor on a 3ft cable. There is Linux code that lets you grab a reading when you want. 2017/01/05 12:40:03 Temperature (internal) 76.21F 24.56C Temperature (external) 72.39F 22.44C Yes, it's HID. I don't know anything about that area. The Linux code is big/ugly (my opinion) enough that I didn't just extract the few lines of code to stuff into my code but called their run-from-the-shell package. It's open source so it shouldn't be too hard to figure out how it works. Dec 27 04:02:54 deb kernel: [3857654.032036] usb 3-3: new low-speed USB device number 6 using ohci_hcd Dec 27 04:02:55 deb kernel: [3857654.246845] usb 3-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0c45, idProduct=7401 Dec 27 04:02:55 deb kernel: [3857654.246854] usb 3-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 Dec 27 04:02:55 deb kernel: [3857654.246861] usb 3-3: Product: TEMPer2_M12_V1.3 Dec 27 04:02:55 deb kernel: [3857654.246867] usb 3-3: Manufacturer: RDing Dec 27 04:02:55 deb kernel: [3857654.258488] input: RDing TEMPer2_M12_V1.3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.1/usb3/3-3/3-3:1.0/input/input7 Dec 27 04:02:55 deb kernel: [3857654.259140] generic-usb 0003:0C45:7401.0007: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [RDing TEMPer2_M12_V1.3] on usb-0000:00:03.1-3/input0 Dec 27 04:02:55 deb kernel: [3857654.266134] generic-usb 0003:0C45:7401.0008: hiddev0,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Device [RDing TEMPer2_M12_V1.3] on usb-0000:00:03.1-3/input1 The blurb for the Gold version said LM75. I haven't taken the cover off a non Gold version. -- These are my opinions. I hate spam.