Real Time Clock and Sensors Clockport Module

[amigakit]

New Sensors and Real Time Clock module now available from Amiga Kit Amiga Store.

It monitors the following:

* Amiga mptherboard’s temperature
* motherboard's 5 volt rail
* health of the battery powering the Real Time Clock.
* optional external sensor, for example, to measure temperature of CPU.

The sensors results are shown on Workbench screen through the software that can be downloaded for the module.

The Sensor and RTC module can be installed by plugging it into the motherboard clockport and selected RAM expansions.

 

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[amigakit]

New video showing the sensor in operation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw7ZYut6rTo

[TribbleSmasher]

Nice. will there be versions
- without the clock (cheaper)
- with more sensor inputs, like 4, 6
- working on any (additional) clockport, selfdetecting
?
Is the software interface sourcecode available for download?

[utri007]

 Most of us who would be insterested already have a accelerator with realtime cloc. Would that be a problem?

Though, I already bought clock port cable from you three weeks ago and it is not shipped yet and asked when it will be shipped without a answer. Wondering would I ever dear order from you again. Not to mention AAA-bundle hasle, but that is different story.

[F0LLETT]

Most of us who would be insterested already have a accelerator with realtime cloc. Would that be a problem?

You may need to disable it some how (i.e. remove it), as I doubt two clocks would be able to operate correctly at same time.

Though, I already bought clock port cable from you three weeks ago and it is not shipped yet and asked when it will be shipped without a answer. Wondering would I ever dear order from you again. Not to mention AAA-bundle hasle, but that is different story.

PM me direct.

[Akiko]

Socket for an optional plug-in secondary sensor on a cable (Remote Sensor).

It's very cool hardware and I'm tempted to order, but my understanding is it only has one onboard temperature sensor that reads the internal temperature, and for anything else you need this optional secondary sensor cable?

Is there any reason why this is brought to market before this cable is available?  I've lost count how many Amiga products that have been advertised in the past to have upcoming features that have failed to materialize, like the expansion module for Kickflash OS4,  Mediator Mpeg 2 decoding card from Elbox,  the 3D and PPC expansion modules the the PicassoIV, I might be wrong but wasn't there a planned expansion module for the Prisma Megamix card as well?

[Pat the Cat]

I'd bet a pot of gold on the secondary sensor being a thermistor on one end of the cable and a compatible plug at the other.

Widely available already from 3d printer stores, the only issue is getting the right sensor (they all have different resistance curves).

With a thermometer and a kettle of boiling water, you could work out what the offset was even if you fitted the wrong sensor.

[amigakit]

The external sensor cable is now in stock.

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[amigakit]

The new secondary sensor cable attached to the sensor module.

The cable can be positioned on any custom chip or the CPU to measure the temperature.  Alternatively it can be used to measure the general ambient temperature inside the case.   The results are displayed through the sensor software which runs on Workbench.

[Craziazkowboi]

Any chance of the driver being updated to allow this device to work at other clockport addresses and not fixed to D80001?  Being fixed means I can't use this on my accelerator card which uses EE0000.

Thanks!

[TribbleSmasher]

Any chance of the driver being updated to allow this device to work at other clockport addresses and not fixed to D80001?  Being fixed means I can't use this on my accelerator card which uses EE0000.

2nd this.

Even better if it was OpenSource of some kind.

[Castellen]

Try this and please report back how you get on, with what third party clockport hardware you're using.
http://amiga.serveftp.net/temp/AK_Sensors_v1.3.lha

Modify the default clockport address using the icon tooltypes, refer to the included documentation.  You'll probably need to use a port address of EE0001.

[Craziazkowboi]

Hello All,

Impatient with no update with an option to set the base address, I downloaded "Hex Fiend" for Mac OSX, did a search for D80001, and replaced the single instance at offset 1632 (overwrote) with EE0001 (the address of my clockport on my Zorrology card) - Sensor now works in my Amiga 2000 with my Zorrology card, yay! (Note - no RTC with this solution, just Sensors), the Zorrology card expliclty states it will not work for RTC, and thats ok by me)!

I don't see why this would not work for anyone as long as you know the address of your clockport.  Tempted to buy another for my A1200 again now....

[Castellen]

Impatient with no update with an option to set the base address

I sent an update within 12 hours which included a new build of the driver and documentation to include exactly that feature, for free.  Were you expecting something sooner?

The code only contains the base address address in one place, so if hacking the binary works, then this new version that allows an optional user defined address should work as well.  Can you confirm that works as expected?

http://amiga.serveftp.net/temp/AK_Sensors_v1.3.lha

[Craziazkowboi]

G'day - For some reason your forum update did not show up for me until your second post - weird!? 

But, I am very pleased to report that the update works, and I am now using your v1.3 rather than my hack - and I have purchased another RTC+Sensor module and two of your sensor cables as a result!  Thank you very much!!  This was a really critical fix IMO, and really makes a difference!

If you have time - is there a way to fix the AK_Sensors_Display program so that it remembers where it was last positioned please?  At the moment, it always opens in the top left, over the top of my disk icons.

Love your work, and thanks again!