Can anyone help me trim this down? (8,168 of 8,192 used)

I'm not sure about the code size but it is fairly long function.

If there is only one sensor on the bus you can issue a SKIP ROM command and "broadcast"
to any device. That is what the code I provided does so there is no need to mess with searching
or addresses.
(updated previous code example to be a little more informative)

If using the OneWire library you can do the same by using the skip() function.
It would be a quick and easy test on this code to simply eliminate this:

  byte addr[8];
  if ( !ds.search(addr)) 
  {
    ds.reset_search();
    return -1000;
  }

And then change this:

  ds.select(addr);

to this:

  ds.skip();

in the getTemp() function.

--- bill