Re: [Owfs-developers] DS18S20 sampling speed

2007-06-20 Thread katana
>> A: is there a way to force new acquisition with each request? > > if you do a "ls /mnt/1wire" you see a couple of special directories. One > is named "uncached". That should be evocative enough ... I've only been playing with owfs for about two days: I hadn't yet found 'uncached' in the docume

Re: [Owfs-developers] DS18S20 sampling speed

2007-06-20 Thread Doug Collinge
On 6/20/07, Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... except that it's uncached/10.(blah)/temperature... Oops. Oh well, the concept is clear. > [ full quote without any changes ] Please don't do that. Sorry. -

Re: [Owfs-developers] DS18S20 sampling speed

2007-06-20 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Doug Collinge: > "mnt/1wire/10.(blah)/uncached/temperature" then you force a device read on ... except that it's uncached/10.(blah)/temperature... > On 6/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [ full quote without any changes ] Please don't do that. -- Matthias Urlichs

Re: [Owfs-developers] DS18S20 sampling speed

2007-06-20 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > The problem is that sequential samples of the DS indicate to me that I'm > not actually getting updated information, just the same thing I got last > time. That's by design. > A: is there a way to force new acquisition with each request? if you do a "ls /mnt/1wire" you

Re: [Owfs-developers] DS18S20 sampling speed

2007-06-20 Thread Doug Collinge
Sounds like you are rereading the cached data, which makes the whole thing seem faster if there are multiple clients for the same data. If you read "mnt/1wire/10.(blah)/uncached/temperature" then you force a device read on each access. On 6/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I

[Owfs-developers] DS18S20 sampling speed

2007-06-20 Thread katana
I've done some searching on google and within this newsgroup itself to try and answer this question but haven't yet found anything so I figured I'd ask in the hopes it's an easy answer. I'm using a DS18S20 and a parallel-port-driven relay to model a furnace control system: the DS is taped to a lig