Hi,

I wonder if the rate of reading is overwhelming the capacitor charging in
the circuit. The DS2438 humidity sensor design creates Vdd from the data
line, if I remember correctly.

Do the problems resolve if you delay readings by, say, 60 seconds
intervals? I doubt your humidity really changes that fast.

Paul

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 6:28 AM, Michele Marcon <m.mar...@riello-ups.com>
wrote:

> Hello Mr. Alfille,
> I'm using owfs for monitoring the DS2438 device over 1-wire with I2C bus.
>
> I've noticed some errors in reading the humidity value; here is an extract
> of my log:
>
> Fri Jun 12 11:15:39 CEST 2015: hum 41  1.92 4.66  t_ist 311.562 t_avg 311
> t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:15:41 CEST 2015: hum 41  1.92 4.66  t_ist 311.562 t_avg 311
> t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:15:43 CEST 2015: hum 41  1.92 4.66  t_ist 311.562 t_avg 311
> t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:15:45 CEST 2015: hum 41  1.92 4.66  t_ist 311.562 t_avg 311
> t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:15:48 CEST 2015: hum 41  1.92 1.92  t_ist 312.812 t_avg 311
> t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:15:50 CEST 2015: hum -119  1.92 1.92  t_ist 312.812 t_avg
> 311 t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:15:52 CEST 2015: hum -119  1.92 1.92  t_ist 312.812 t_avg
> 312 t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:15:54 CEST 2015: hum -119  1.92 1.92  t_ist 312.812 t_avg
> 312 t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:15:56 CEST 2015: hum -119  1.92 1.92  t_ist 312.812 t_avg
> 312 t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:15:59 CEST 2015: hum -119  1.92 1.91  t_ist 311.562 t_avg
> 312 t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:16:01 CEST 2015: hum -118  1.92 1.91  t_ist 311.562 t_avg
> 312 t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:16:03 CEST 2015: hum -118  1.92 1.91  t_ist 311.562 t_avg
> 311 t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:16:05 CEST 2015: hum -118  1.92 1.91  t_ist 311.562 t_avg
> 311 t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:16:07 CEST 2015: hum -118  1.92 1.91  t_ist 311.562 t_avg
> 311 t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:16:40 CEST 2015: hum 40  1.91 4.66  t_ist 310.938 t_avg 311
> t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:16:42 CEST 2015: hum 40  1.91 4.66  t_ist 310.938 t_avg 311
> t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:16:44 CEST 2015: hum 40  1.91 4.66  t_ist 310.938 t_avg 311
> t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:16:46 CEST 2015: hum 40  1.91 4.66  t_ist 310.938 t_avg 311
> t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:16:48 CEST 2015: hum 40  1.91 4.66  t_ist 310.938 t_avg 311
> t_max 312 312
> Fri Jun 12 11:16:51 CEST 2015: hum 41  1.92 4.66  t_ist 312.188 t_avg 311
> t_max 312 312
>
>
> In particular, I'd like to show you that the reading of VDD sometimes
> return "1.92" or similar values when it should be around "4.66". Do you
> have any explanation?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
>
> Michele Marcon
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