note RedTussock Yep that is all fine and dandy ... but what I have coming in of the 1 wire network is multiple 1 wire devices with uynique ID's ... what is coming out the tcp port on 8891 from oww looks like <code> Smitty@smittytech:~> telnet localhost 8891 Trying ::1... telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 11/10/12 , 18:36:27 , ,&#65533;C , 6.87, KPH, South ,180.0 , 8 , 0.00, mm 11/10/12 , 18:36:27 , ,&#65533;C , 6.00, KPH, SE ,135.0 , 6 , 0.00, mm 11/10/12 , 18:36:30 , ,&#65533;C , 5.91, KPH, SSE ,157.5 , 7 , 0.00, mm 11/10/12 , 18:36:32 , ,&#65533;C , 4.31, KPH, South ,180.0 , 8 , 0.00, mm 11/10/12 , 18:36:34 , ,&#65533;C , 4.26, KPH, South ,180.0 , 8 , 0.00, mm 11/10/12 , 18:36:37 , ,&#65533;C , 4.25, KPH, South ,180.0 , 8 , 0.00, mm 11/10/12 , 18:36:39 , ,&#65533;C , 5.09, KPH, SW ,225.0 , 10 , 0.00, mm 11/10/12 , 18:36:41 , ,&#65533;C , 4.16, KPH, SE ,135.0 , 6 , 0.00, mm 11/10/12 , 18:36:44 , ,&#65533;C , 3.35, KPH, SW ,225.0 , 10 , 0.00, mm 11/10/12 , 18:36:46 , ,&#65533;C , 4.21, KPH, SW ,225.0 , 10 , 0.00, mm 11/10/12 , 18:36:48 , ,&#65533;C , 4.28, KPH, SSW ,202.5 , 9 , 0.00, mm ^C^C </code> So I either need to kill oww and read the device of the net and do all the 1W net comms using a perl script and hand the result into your suggested send script. Clever idea ... but I need to go deeper into the network comms, which means reinventing a wheel. 997666 997796