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MySensors library and examples
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Deprecate V_ID? #1285

Open flatsiedatsie opened 5 years ago

flatsiedatsie commented 5 years ago

I noticed the V_ID property.

V_ID 42 Optional unique sensor id (e.g. OneWire DS1820b ids) S_TEMP

Only the S_Temperature uses it, and it seems designed for a specific Dallas hardware type.

I wouldn't even know how to implement it in my plugin.

More importantly, if you wanted to have insight into the different sensors, wouldn't it make more sense to present each one as a unique child? Wouldn't that be more in line with how most MySensors things work?

Perhaps I misunderstand its value/use.

mfalkvidd commented 5 years ago

This seems to be the original feature request that resulted in V_ID: https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/1135/v_id-v_serial-to-send-sensors-natural-built-in-id-s-to-controller

Some other references that might be relevant: https://github.com/mysensors/NodeManager/issues/216 https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/3214/1wire-missing-unique-ids-28-xxxxxxxxxxxx/ https://forum.mysensors.org/topic/4834/unique-id-value-ds18b20-temperature-sensors

flatsiedatsie commented 5 years ago

Those links haven't really changed my opinion.