On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:25:01 +0100, Robert Smith wrote: > Quick update.. > > I successfully connected my Arduino UNO via the SMBus pins in the PCI slot > today and used the Arduino Wire library to read temperatures from the > motherboard's aSC7621. I checked the readings against speedfan and they > matched. > > It was only left running for a few minutes but I'm optimistic that it will > work ok long term, the manual for the ICH10R states that the SMBus master > is capable of multi mastering as is the Arduino. > > If anyone needs to access their motherboard's SMBus then this might be a > good solution. It seems that PCIe slots also have pins for SMBus (not sure > if they are regularly connected?) and if you have a spare slot then then > the riser card makes for an extremely simple non invasive connection. Thanks for the update, I have updated the wiki to mention this option. -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
