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[bill.french]

I'm trying to get this onewire to rs232 device working, and of course it's not...

For serial, using D0 for RX (hooked to TX on my device) and D1 as TX (hooked to RX on my device), do I need anything other than:

var s1 = new SerialPort(SerialPorts.COM1, 9600);
s1.Open()

... and then I can read and write using s1.Read and s1.Write?

What does .Read do if there's no data there? Does it just wait? Return garbage?

I'm getting data via s1.Read with nothing even hooked up to the netduino.

[bill.french]

OK I figured it out... I was receiving 4x more bytes than expected because the onewire->rs232 works in a completely unexpected way. Even once I disconnected the device, the uart still had data in it. So, when I ask it to read a byte, it returns the byte represented in hex using ascii characters... So, if I was expecting just this byte: 11111111 (in binary) (255 in decimal) (FF in hex) it actually sends the ascii character F twice followed by linefeed and carriage return, for a total of four bytes.