In front of the office today.

This is very, very interesting - interoperability between virtual servers?

Sun xVM Server software is highly interoperable with VMware's ESX Server and Microsoft's Hyper-V. It uses the same virtual hard disk and virtual appliance formats, enabling customers to easily move workloads between VMware ESX and Sun xVM Server software seamlessly. At the same time, it can export to Hyper-V's disk image format, VHD. [From MySQL and Virtualization through Sun xVM Server]

Very good point of view:

Looking through the Holmes (Wattson software companion) binaries I found the following URL:

so they may be testing their community software there ??

Sending the character "I" to the Wattson when it is in Power collecting mode (3996W in display - the W is the power indicator)

This corresponds perfectly to the "p0F9C" - which in decimal is 3996.

So the Wattson is now reporting every point it is collecting - excellent.

I now think I may have a starting point for interfacing the Wattson and starting to collect my own data.

I'm continuing to decode the data collection protocol from the Wattson.

d13 - seems to correspond to 19 days of data.

As I've bought a Wattson - and starting to use the accompanying software (Holmes) to collect data - it's clear that the Wattson would be much more useful if I could get access to the data from my own software (I've got lots of ideas - more about that later).

And seeing the drivers they use to interface the Wattsons USB port to the Mac seems to be the same as I use for the Arduino, I kicked off Xterm (a terminal emulator) and attached the USB cable to the Wattson. With a little bit of experminatation it seemed that I got a echo from the Wattson if I set the interface speed to 192.000 bit/s.