Re: [Owfs-developers] Error trap works great on NSLU2 with owfs

2007-08-22 Thread Christian Magnusson
BTW: Does owshell support the ping packets? I have helped Christian Schumann with scripts to control his Solar-panel + rainwater buffer with switches and water-pump. There are several cronjobs which run every minute, and one of the scripts frequently return "Data error" when reading a DS2890.

Re: [Owfs-developers] Strange read from owserver

2007-08-22 Thread Paul Alfille
PING packets are sent if the server takes longer than 1 second or so. There are two interpretations of the delay: 1. The server is busy 2. The server died (or the connection went down). Since it's not possible to know how long the processing will take, the owserver sends a PING message if the dat

Re: [Owfs-developers] Strange read from owserver

2007-08-22 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 8/23/07, Pedro Côrte-Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/23/07, Pedro Côrte-Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Try OWTAP to inspect. > > > > > > There is an extensive writeup in the web site. > > > http://www.owfs.org/index.php?page=owtap > > > > > > It looks like the second message is a P

Re: [Owfs-developers] Strange read from owserver

2007-08-22 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 8/23/07, Pedro Côrte-Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try OWTAP to inspect. > > > > There is an extensive writeup in the web site. > > http://www.owfs.org/index.php?page=owtap > > > > It looks like the second message is a PING message, payload = -1 > > I'm gonna try this. Thanks. I've tried

Re: [Owfs-developers] Strange read from owserver

2007-08-22 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 8/23/07, Alfille, Paul H.,M.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In short, the first 24 bytes are a header that include information like error > status, message type, version, data length, data format (temperature scale, > etc) Yeah, the header, this I get. What I meant was that in the uncached rea

Re: [Owfs-developers] Strange read from owserver

2007-08-22 Thread Alfille, Paul H.,M.D.
In short, the first 24 bytes are a header that include information like error status, message type, version, data length, data format (temperature scale, etc) Try OWTAP to inspect. There is an extensive writeup in the web site. http://www.owfs.org/index.php?page=owtap It looks like the second me

Re: [Owfs-developers] Strange read from owserver

2007-08-22 Thread Pedro Côrte-Real
On 8/12/07, Pedro Côrte-Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure. owread outputs the right thing but so does my ruby code > if I do a puts to a terminal since printf ignores those characters. > I'll have to strace owread. I've straced owread and it's reading 24 extra bytes in the uncached ca