Re: [Owfs-developers] Unexpected fiasco with new network. Feedback on analysis and testing welcome

2011-12-15 Thread Nick
Hi Eloy "Eloy Paris" wrote in message news:4eea41df.7090...@chapus.net... > > I do find it very odd that things work perfectly when the LinkUSB is > connected to a laptop but don't work when the LinkUSB is connected to > another machine because the 1-Wire network is connected to the LinkUSB, > n

Re: [Owfs-developers] Unexpected fiasco with new network. Feedback on analysis and testing welcome

2011-12-15 Thread Nathan Hurst
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 09:21:32PM +, Colin Law wrote: > On 15 December 2011 15:44, Nick wrote: > > ... > > After fiddling a little and getting nowhere, I brought in my laptop, LA and > > some other kit to the office to explore more. Curiously, with my Dell laptop > > (and same LinkUSB master)

Re: [Owfs-developers] Unexpected fiasco with new network. Feedback on analysis and testing welcome

2011-12-15 Thread Mark Richards
On 12/15/2011 10:44, Nick wrote: Please forgive the long post and bear with me on this one. My first 1-wire network, snaking around the house with 10 or so sensors and over a long distance, has been a great success. Almost faultless performance apart from total data corruption for a short while

Re: [Owfs-developers] Unexpected fiasco with new network. Feedback on analysis and testing welcome

2011-12-15 Thread Colin Law
On 15 December 2011 15:44, Nick wrote: > ... > After fiddling a little and getting nowhere, I brought in my laptop, LA and > some other kit to the office to explore more. Curiously, with my Dell laptop > (and same LinkUSB master), the network was now 100% reliable. Plugged into a > different Dell

[Owfs-developers] problems with latest version of owfs

2011-12-15 Thread Jerry Scharf
Hi, I am banging away on my new system, and through I would upgrade owfs versions on general principal. I am now having some problems. here's my owfs command /opt/owfs/bin/owfs -m /var/1wire/mount --allow_other -s host:2840 --error_print=0 --error_level=2 --foreground > dlog 2>&1 ls /var/1w

[Owfs-developers] a change in owfs file system layout, is this right?

2011-12-15 Thread Jerry Scharf
Hi, my set up has an owserver that talks to a serial linkhub and a ethernet linkhub. I then connect to the owserver from owfs. In the old version, the file system has a directory bus.0 for the owserver and under that bus.0 and bun.s for the two linkhubs. In each of these lower buses, there is

Re: [Owfs-developers] Unexpected fiasco with new network. Feedback on analysis and testing welcome

2011-12-15 Thread Eloy Paris
Hi Nick, Thanks for sharing. Good stuff. I don't have explanations for the things you are seeing. It does make sense to me that running ground + 1-Wire data using the same pair works better than running them using wires from different pairs in the cat5 cable. The pairs are twisted to cancel EM

Re: [Owfs-developers] would like opinions on how best to design something

2011-12-15 Thread Zoff
Hi! if you do these things, then please make a blog similar to mine, so that other people can easly reuse it. otherwise it would be wasted effort, if everybody has to do it from scratch again. cheers, Zoff. Nathan Hurst wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 06:53:29PM +, Mick Su

[Owfs-developers] Unexpected fiasco with new network. Feedback on analysis and testing welcome

2011-12-15 Thread Nick
Please forgive the long post and bear with me on this one. My first 1-wire network, snaking around the house with 10 or so sensors and over a long distance, has been a great success. Almost faultless performance apart from total data corruption for a short while a couple of times that I think w

Re: [Owfs-developers] would like opinions on how best todesign something

2011-12-15 Thread Nick
"Jerry Scharf" wrote in message news:4ee7bc74.3050...@lagunawayconsulting.com... > I tried X10 for some other stuff, and think is just a terrible solution > for almost anything. The X10 lighting is the thing my wife hates the > most about the house. With an X10 lighting system in place, my g/

Re: [Owfs-developers] Embedded System

2011-12-15 Thread Sven Geggus
p4trykx wrote: > I've read that it can run Debian or Archlinux. I already use Debian on Sheevaplug and it is running very nice there. I just found http://www.kroonen.eu/wiki/ and ordered[1] one. Sven [1] Cheapest German shop I found is Pollin Elektronik (€45): http://www.pollin.de/shop/dt/MzU

Re: [Owfs-developers] Embedded System

2011-12-15 Thread p4trykx
Dnia 15-12-2011 o 09:34:07 Sven Geggus napisał(a): > Do you know if a full featured Linux Distribution is an Option? I've read that it can run Debian or Archlinux. So those are probably better for more powerful machine. You can also replace wifi card but it has to be half-size mini pci-e. -

Re: [Owfs-developers] Embedded System

2011-12-15 Thread Sven Geggus
p4trykx wrote: > It can run OpenWrt. Do you know if a full featured Linux Distribution is an Option? I currently have a Sheevaplug Computer running Debian squeeze and the least current vanilla kernel. Does not make much of a difference compared to a real PC running Linux. I even use the officia

Re: [Owfs-developers] would like opinions on how bestto design something

2011-12-15 Thread Martin Patzak (GMX)
Hello Ziuras, Yes, I can. I will contact you directly, because it is not of interest for the OWFS group! On 12/14/2011 08:11 AM, ziuras wrote: > can you share your software (perl and/or python scripts) for mixing valves. > > > Then this water is mixed down to a lower > temperature for each hea