[Owfs-developers] DS2423 questions

2017-12-12 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! Can anyone recall when the company decided to discontinue the DS2423? My datasheet has on it the legend that it is not for new designs. Right now my design can count when it sees magnet turn off its switch, but the viewer complains. That's the original 32 bit Windows one as it happens. Wha

Re: [Owfs-developers] USB-I2C-1-wire for Star Networking

2017-12-12 Thread Colin Reese
Yes. UPS even die eventually. My little board tells the Pi to shut down when battery gets low. It's basically a smart mini ups. Colin > On Dec 12, 2017, at 7:12 PM, joep wrote: > > Hi Colin, > > I had those experiences as well (including permanently damaged SD Cards > and PC's damaged

Re: [Owfs-developers] USB-I2C-1-wire for Star Networking

2017-12-12 Thread joep
Hi Colin,     I had those experiences as well (including permanently damaged SD Cards and PC's damaged by lightning strikes) and now have all IT equipment on a UPS. The 1-wire controller will be part of a home automation server and won't be remotely installed - it will be in the study on a UP

Re: [Owfs-developers] USB-I2C-1-wire for Star Networking

2017-12-12 Thread Colin Reese
WRT power, USB power is still an issue, especially over long period with fluctuating power. I use a power-management board and battery backup for this reason. Non-graceful shutdowns not only corrupt the operating system, but also potentially the SDCards permanently. This is a bad situation, obv

Re: [Owfs-developers] USB-I2C-1-wire for Star Networking

2017-12-12 Thread joep
Thanks again Jan. >>> $ owserver --i2c=/dev/i2c-0:ALL That answers my most pressing question. >>>I'm talking about the Raspberry Zero W, which has a built-in SDIO WLAN adapter and a built-in antenna. No fiddling with USB needed (though USB power isn't much of an issue anymore since the Raspberr

Re: [Owfs-developers] USB-I2C-1-wire for Star Networking

2017-12-12 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am 12.12.2017 um 22:38 schrieb joep: > Jan thanks for the reply. > > I currently have 2 Raspberry Pi's (of late 2012 vintage - forgot the > model ID's) and I've been running them since early 2013. I've run > one for 6 months non-stop (to manage the lighting and temperature in > a terrarium) and o

Re: [Owfs-developers] USB-I2C-1-wire for Star Networking

2017-12-12 Thread Colin Reese
Yes, I totally get it. Unfortunately, you can't always depend on having wired interfaces. Or, at least I can't. So you manage. Colin On 12/12/2017 2:05 PM, joep wrote: Hi Colin,     When I use WiFi I do have a shell script, invoked by CRON, that periodically checks the health of the networ

Re: [Owfs-developers] USB-I2C-1-wire for Star Networking

2017-12-12 Thread joep
Hi Colin,     When I use WiFi I do have a shell script, invoked by CRON, that periodically checks the health of the network interfaces and restarts them if down (also records in a log file which interface went down and when - WiFi features prominently in the log file). Much rather have someth

Re: [Owfs-developers] USB-I2C-1-wire for Star Networking

2017-12-12 Thread Colin Reese
WiFi connectivity is the crux for sure. I've written tons of code around keeping them connected in various circumstances. If you can get them on wired, they'll stay up forever. Otherwise, you'll need to write yourself a daemon to bring it down and back up when it loses connectivity. Netifaces i

Re: [Owfs-developers] USB-I2C-1-wire for Star Networking

2017-12-12 Thread joep
Jan thanks for the reply. I currently have 2 Raspberry Pi's (of late 2012 vintage - forgot the model ID's) and I've been running them since early 2013. I've run one for 6 months non-stop (to manage the lighting and temperature in a terrarium) and only stopped it to update the Raspbian firmware

Re: [Owfs-developers] USB-I2C-1-wire for Star Networking

2017-12-12 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am 12.12.2017 um 06:07 schrieb joep: > Way back, in Apr 22, 2012 5:42pm to be precise, Patryk-6 started a > thread called 'usb-i2c-1wire tutorial' (at > https://sourceforge.net/p/owfs/mailman/message/29163416/) in which he > started discussing a USB-to-1-wire bus master to replace the then > disco

Re: [Owfs-developers] USB-I2C-1-wire for Star Networking

2017-12-12 Thread joep
Hi Mick,     Thanks for the reply. Actually the contents of the thread (which you have attached) is stored on the OWFS sourgeforge server (athttps://sourceforge.net/p/owfs/mailman/message/29163416/) which is how I found out about the project.     From the contents of the original thread it s