Re: [Owfs-developers] owfs on Raspberry Buster

2019-09-15 Thread Colin Law
Check in the owserver log (likely /var/log/syslog) to see if it is showing errors. Colin On Sun, 15 Sep 2019, 12:08 Mick Sulley, wrote: > I am having trouble getting owfs to work on Raspbian Buster. I have > posted on the Pi forum > > > https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=2

Re: [Owfs-developers] New faulty DS18B20 - Solved it

2019-08-05 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 at 23:10, Mick Sulley wrote: > > I will repay him yes. So now you have a surfeit of devices. You will just have to find lots of other things to measure. :) Colin > > On 04/08/2019 20:27, Colin Law wrote: > > Have you re-paid the first guy? Or did

Re: [Owfs-developers] New faulty DS18B20 - Solved it

2019-08-04 Thread Colin Law
Have you re-paid the first guy? Or did you send them back? Colin On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 at 20:09, Mick Sulley wrote: > > It was all very simple. I was connecting the sensors via breadboard > type connectors. My old one worked, the new ones didn't. I just tried > connecting via the screw terminals

Re: [Owfs-developers] Install on Raspbian Buster

2019-08-04 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 at 20:05, Mick Sulley wrote: > > Thanks Colin, I had forgotten to enable i2c. It all works now. Excellent Colin > > > On 04/08/2019 12:13, Colin Law wrote: > > How are you connecting the devices to the pi? > > Have you run raspi-config and enabl

Re: [Owfs-developers] Install on Raspbian Buster

2019-08-04 Thread Colin Law
How are you connecting the devices to the pi? Have you run raspi-config and enabled/disabled the appropriate sections? You have to use sudo with systemctl. Colin On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 at 11:29, Mick Sulley wrote: > > I'm trying to install on Raspbian Buster and failing! > > I did the usual updates

Re: [Owfs-developers] Problem installing owserver on Raspbian Buster

2019-07-16 Thread Colin Law
On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 19:08, Jaroslav Sobota wrote: > > Creating config file /etc/owfs.conf with new version > Setting up libow-3.2-3:armhf (3.2p3+dfsg1-2) ... > Setting up owserver (3.2p3+dfsg1-2) ... > Job for owserver.service failed because the service did not take the > steps requi

Re: [Owfs-developers] DS18S20 fault again

2019-07-16 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 at 21:49, Jan Kandziora wrote: > ... > The DS18S20 has 9 bit accuracy only, while the DS18B20 supports 12 bit > accuracy. i think that should be 9/12 bits resolution rather than accuracy. I don't think the accuracy is affected. They are both +-0.5C Colin _

Re: [Owfs-developers] ds18b20 always showing 85 as temperature output

2019-05-17 Thread Colin Law
On Fri, 17 May 2019 at 09:16, nihar Modi wrote: > > Hey, thanks for the reply. But meanwhile I got in new trouble. Owdir command > sometime shows all the sensors but as I add a new one it randomly shows two > or three sensors only. I am trying continuously for two days and same problem > persis

Re: [Owfs-developers] owfs.org is down

2019-04-09 Thread Colin Law
On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 at 22:12, Stefano Miccoli via Owfs-developers wrote: > > Hi all: > > owfs.org is down, as reported in https://github.com/owfs/owfs/issues/35 I hope that is not all going to be lost as it appears the domain is about to expire. Colin ___

Re: [Owfs-developers] Strange read failure

2019-03-10 Thread Colin Law
On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 at 14:57, Mick Sulley wrote: > > How do I set the resolution? I always fetch the data at the maximum resolution. If you want to limit it for display purposes then do it when you display it. There is no point in throwing away data when you are acquiring it. Colin _

Re: [Owfs-developers] Suggestions of Microcontrollers for 1-wire use.

2019-02-21 Thread Colin Law
Have look at the Sonoff devices and compatibles, which can be flashed with the Sonoff-Tasmota s/w which is super flexible. There is a huge variety of devices available. Colin On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 at 04:12, joep wrote: > > Hi All, > > To some extent this follows from thread: Reliability and R

Re: [Owfs-developers] OWSERVER under Windows

2018-08-05 Thread Colin Law
Colin > Thanks - Rowan > > Rowan Sylvester-Bradley > 22 Fox Green > Great Bradley > Newmarket > Suffolk > CB8 9NR > > Phone: 01440 783157 > Mobile: 07970 111231 > E-mail: ro...@sylvesterbradley.org > > On 05/08/2018 16:26, Colin Law wrote: > > On 5 Au

Re: [Owfs-developers] OWSERVER under Windows

2018-08-05 Thread Colin Law
On 5 August 2018 at 19:09, Rowan Sylvester-Bradley < ro...@sylvesterbradley.org> wrote: > ... > >1. Some form of OWSERVER. What do I need to download for this, and >what is the install process? > > sudo apt-get install owserver ow-shell So a bit easier than Windows :) If you decided to tr

Re: [Owfs-developers] OWSERVER under Windows

2018-08-05 Thread Colin Law
On 5 August 2018 at 12:50, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 05.08.2018 um 12:22 schrieb Rowan Sylvester-Bradley: > > I am trying to use a DS9490R USB-to-onewire adapter. > > > > I want to plug it directly into my Windows PC. I may later add a > > Raspberry Pi or similar, but for now I'm trying to keep t

Re: [Owfs-developers] git pull returns 502 error message

2018-03-03 Thread Colin Law
On 2 March 2018 at 00:48, Gregg Levine wrote: > Hello! > I have the most recent numbered release on a Pi3 (now on a Pi Zero W) > running and working. However since I previously also released the > newest code via a git clone when setting up the directory. > > Now however I need to update things, a

Re: [Owfs-developers] Unsupported 1-wire device

2018-01-06 Thread Colin Law
On 6 January 2018 at 00:19, Péter Zsembery wrote: > Hi, > > Back in May last year I asked for help to make OWFS communicate with my home > developed 1-wire slave device (based on PIC16F877A). > The hardware configuration is Raspberry Pi RevB with Raspbian 3.18.11 and > DS2480-100 on I2C. > Based o

Re: [Owfs-developers] Memory consumption rising and rising....until process terminated

2017-08-19 Thread Colin Law
On 19 August 2017 at 13:07, Gabrijel Erman wrote: > Hi, > > I have a issue with owfs and can't figure out what to do. I created an > raspberry pi 2 process that runs on startup and collects data from 1-wire > network. What happened is that process just stops at some point. Scratching > my head why

Re: [Owfs-developers] Minimal Wi-Fi power?

2017-08-02 Thread Colin Law
On 3 August 2017 at 01:29, Loren Amelang wrote: > On Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 10:31 AM, > owfs-developers-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: >> 1. Re: Arduino yun as wifi 1wire master > > I keep reading these posts saying Wi-Fi is a power hog. I just ordered a pair > of Raspberry Pi Zero W

Re: [Owfs-developers] System Lock-up?

2017-05-27 Thread Colin Law
nothing related, don't know. I have looked at > http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2007 and it didn't help me much. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks > Mick > > > > On 27/05/17 08:24, Colin Law wrote: >> >> Have a look in /var/log/syslog and see if the

Re: [Owfs-developers] System Lock-up?

2017-05-27 Thread Colin Law
Have a look in /var/log/syslog and see if there are any interesting messages around the time of failure. If syslog does not go back far enough look in /var/log/syslog.1 Colin On 26 May 2017 at 21:35, Mick Sulley wrote: > Thanks for your comments Matthias. It happened again today, same channels

Re: [Owfs-developers] Where to get LinkUSB in UK

2017-04-17 Thread Colin Law
m/en/shop/shipping/ > > > On 04/16/2017 12:04 PM, Colin Law wrote: > > On 16 April 2017 at 10:40, Colin Law wrote: > > Does anyone know where I can get a LinkUSB in the UK? Homechip have > gone out of business apparently. It is to replace a failed unit in a > worki

Re: [Owfs-developers] Where to get LinkUSB in UK

2017-04-16 Thread Colin Law
On 16 April 2017 at 10:40, Colin Law wrote: > Does anyone know where I can get a LinkUSB in the UK? Homechip have > gone out of business apparently. It is to replace a failed unit in a > working system so I would prefer a direct replacement if possible. Or is it just that Homechip'

[Owfs-developers] Where to get LinkUSB in UK

2017-04-16 Thread Colin Law
Does anyone know where I can get a LinkUSB in the UK? Homechip have gone out of business apparently. It is to replace a failed unit in a working system so I would prefer a direct replacement if possible. Colin -- Check o

Re: [Owfs-developers] owserver protocol

2017-03-06 Thread Colin Law
continue waiting for the answer. > > S. > > On 5 Mar 2017, at 21:08, Colin Law wrote: > > The extra header contains version: 0, payload: -1, ret: 0, flags: 0, > size: 0, offset: 0 > So the element described as size of data element is 0 though that > described as length of p

Re: [Owfs-developers] owserver protocol

2017-03-06 Thread Colin Law
On 5 March 2017 at 22:11, Gregg Levine wrote: > Hello! > Colin how did you attach your One-Wire device to the Pi Zero? And is > it in much the same style as that from the discussion from last > September? Hi Greg, I have some using LinkUSB and some, with up to two DS18B20 on wires of up to a few

Re: [Owfs-developers] owserver protocol

2017-03-05 Thread Colin Law
modate for a > terminating null byte) > > So I confirm: headers with payload == -1 are to be discarded and the client > should continue waiting for the answer. > > S. > > On 5 Mar 2017, at 21:08, Colin Law wrote: > > The extra header contains version: 0, payload: -1, r

Re: [Owfs-developers] owserver protocol

2017-03-05 Thread Colin Law
The extra header contains version: 0, payload: -1, ret: 0, flags: 0, size: 0, offset: 0 So the element described as size of data element is 0 though that described as length of payload data is -1. Colin On 5 March 2017 at 19:34, Colin Law wrote: > Can I just check there I not a confusion h

Re: [Owfs-developers] owserver protocol

2017-03-05 Thread Colin Law
ase see https://github.com/miccoli/pyownet/pull/1 where Johan > Ström corrected a similar bug in my pyownet. > > S. > > On 5 Mar 2017, at 17:51, Colin Law wrote: > > I am trying to debug a problem on the node.js owserver client > node-owfs and am looking for some clarification of

[Owfs-developers] owserver protocol

2017-03-05 Thread Colin Law
I am trying to debug a problem on the node.js owserver client node-owfs and am looking for some clarification of the owserver protocol if possible please. Referring to [1] in response to a 1-wire read I expect to see a header with a payload of the size indicated in the header. Very often what I ac

Re: [Owfs-developers] FTDI problem on pi

2017-03-03 Thread Colin Law
r 2017, at 17:48, Jan Kandziora wrote: >> >> Am 03.03.2017 um 14:44 schrieb Colin Law: >>> >>> I too had expected to see messages about the usb device being >>> disconnected, or something similar, but there is nothing. >>> >> Okay. Then we are a

Re: [Owfs-developers] FTDI problem on pi

2017-03-03 Thread Colin Law
rule to map the device to /dev/linkUSB but there is no mention of this anywhere in the log, as far as I can see. Colin On 3 March 2017 at 13:24, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 02.03.2017 um 10:21 schrieb Colin Law: >> Running a LinkUSB on a pi zero (Raspbian Jessie), with owserver >>

Re: [Owfs-developers] FTDI problem on pi

2017-03-03 Thread Colin Law
On 3 March 2017 at 08:42, Martin Patzak (GMX) wrote: > On 03/02/2017 08:50 PM, Colin Law wrote: > > It appears that the supplied version is not compiled with the ftdi > option. > > how do you check for that? Why is the Debian package not compiled with > ftdi? > When I

Re: [Owfs-developers] FTDI problem on pi

2017-03-02 Thread Colin Law
inkUSB out and re-inserting it > (both on USB side and 1W side, if 1W net is externally powered)? And > also restarting owserver. > > Johan > > > On 02/03/17 10:21, Colin Law wrote: >> Running a LinkUSB on a pi zero (Raspbian Jessie), with owserver >> 3.1p4-1 from

[Owfs-developers] FTDI problem on pi

2017-03-02 Thread Colin Law
Running a LinkUSB on a pi zero (Raspbian Jessie), with owserver 3.1p4-1 from jessie testing, I very occasionally (every few weeks) see in syslog Mar 1 22:10:50 pi004 kernel: [194834.694657] ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: failed to get modem status: -110 Mar 1 22:11:00 pi004 kernel: [194844.694679] ftdi_sio t

Re: [Owfs-developers] Problem with owhttpd on a raspberry pi (owfs-3.0p2)

2017-01-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 January 2017 at 16:36, Ritchie wrote: > >> You didn't answer the question "Are you sure there is nothing else in >>> /var/log/syslog when you start it?" >> >> Colin >> > > Hello Colin, > > > here is the syslog > > Jan 18 17:32:06 fhem3 systemd[1]: Started User Manager for UID 1000. > Jan 18

Re: [Owfs-developers] Problem with owhttpd on a raspberry pi (owfs-3.0p2)

2017-01-18 Thread Colin Law
e there is nothing else in > /var/log/syslog when you start it?" Colin > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. Januar 2017 um 18:25 Uhr > Von: "Colin Law" > An: "OWFS (One-wire file system) discussion and help" > > Betreff: Re: [Owfs-developers] Problem with owh

Re: [Owfs-developers] Problem with owhttpd on a raspberry pi (owfs-3.0p2)

2017-01-17 Thread Colin Law
On 17 January 2017 at 16:31, Ritchie wrote: > >then after that what does > >sudo systemctl status owhttpd > >show? > > $ sudo systemctl start owhttpd > sudo systemctl status owhttpd > (white) ● owhttpd.service - Tiny webserver for 1-wire control > Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/owhttpd

Re: [Owfs-developers] Problem with owhttpd on a raspberry pi (owfs-3.0p2)

2017-01-16 Thread Colin Law
On 15 January 2017 at 17:01, Colin Law wrote: > On 15 January 2017 at 16:25, Ritchie wrote: >> Dear Colin, >> >>> Have you started owhttpd? >>> sudo systemctl start owhttpd >>> If so what do you see in /var/log/syslog when you start it? >> &g

Re: [Owfs-developers] Problem with owhttpd on a raspberry pi (owfs-3.0p2)

2017-01-15 Thread Colin Law
On 15 January 2017 at 16:25, Ritchie wrote: > Dear Colin, > >> Have you started owhttpd? >> sudo systemctl start owhttpd >> If so what do you see in /var/log/syslog when you start it? > > Jan 15 17:23:22 fhem3 systemd[1]: Starting Tiny webserver for 1-wire > control... > Jan 15 17:23:22 fhem3 syst

Re: [Owfs-developers] Problem with owhttpd on a raspberry pi (owfs-3.0p2)

2017-01-15 Thread Colin Law
On 15 January 2017 at 11:56, Ritchie wrote: > Hi all, > > > the owserver is running now, but the owhttpd does not start. > see messages: Was my suggestion to look at the systemd service file helpful? > > > $ sudo service owserver status With systemd you should be using sudo systemctl status ows

Re: [Owfs-developers] Problem with owhttpd on a raspberry pi (owfs-3.0p2)

2017-01-14 Thread Colin Law
On 14 January 2017 at 13:33, Ritchie wrote: > > ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/owhttpd restart > [ ok ] Restarting owhttpd (via systemctl): owhttpd.service. > > ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/owhttpd status > ● owhttpd.service - Tiny webserver for 1-wire control > Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/owhttpd.servi

Re: [Owfs-developers] Problem with owserver on a raspberry pi (does not start)

2017-01-13 Thread Colin Law
On 13 January 2017 at 16:16, Ritchie wrote: > Dear Colin, > > how can I get the source code of the version, described in the message, > because I need to modify the code, to see what happen on the 1-wire bus. > Because I am working on a 1-wire Slave AVR based for a DS2450. https://sourceforge.net

Re: [Owfs-developers] Problem with owserver on a raspberry pi (does not start)

2017-01-12 Thread Colin Law
On 12 January 2017 at 16:29, Ritchie wrote: > Dear Jan, > > I just decide to reinstall the system new, which is easier than try to > fix it. Install owfs from the 'testing' repository using the technique in https://sourceforge.net/p/owfs/mailman/message/35357871/ Colin -

Re: [Owfs-developers] Problem with compiling of the owfs on a raspberry pi

2017-01-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 January 2017 at 17:09, Ritchie wrote: > Dear Sulley, > > the usblib-dev is already installed: > > sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0.0-dev Try sudo apt-get install libusb-dev Colin > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Note, selectin

Re: [Owfs-developers] 85 degree reading means error, readout timing, error should be filtered

2017-01-08 Thread Colin Law
On 8 January 2017 at 14:59, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 08.01.2017 um 14:54 schrieb Ekkehard Pofahl: >> >> I am using OWFS since more than two years in different versions on a Raspi >> 2. This alone shows, that I think it is a very good program. >> >> From time to time there is the "85 degree" discu

Re: [Owfs-developers] Problem reading temperatures of 85 degree Celsius

2016-12-06 Thread Colin Law
In my code (in a node-red environment) if I get a value of 85 then I retry after a timeout (1 sec I think) and only if I get three 85 in a row do I accept it as 85. Colin On 6 December 2016 at 10:04, Sven Giermann wrote: > I have no idea of what pyownet does or how it is implemented... > But I k

Re: [Owfs-developers] DS2483 and static electric shock

2016-11-14 Thread Colin Law
On 13 November 2016 at 22:24, Henrik Östman wrote: > I believe this one is commonly used: > https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/products/interface/signal-line-protection-ics/DS9503.html I think you would need one of those for each device that you wanted to protect. Colin > > // Henrik > > Den 20

Re: [Owfs-developers] Read errors accessing DS18B20 on Pi using w1

2016-11-05 Thread Colin Law
3/temperature9 > > eni > > > On 05.11.2016 09:35, Colin Law wrote: > > On 5 November 2016 at 08:30, Enrico Hoepfner > wrote: > >> Hello Colin, >> >> I've found a workaround - only use an other path to read from owfs-server >> and dont need

Re: [Owfs-developers] Read errors accessing DS18B20 on Pi using w1

2016-11-05 Thread Colin Law
evel-log from owfs-server that this is searching on > each bus-master when I access with //. > > eni > > > > On 05.11.2016 09:08, Colin Law wrote: > > On 5 November 2016 at 07:03, eni wrote: > >> Hello Colin, >> >> I've exactly the same problem,

Re: [Owfs-developers] Read errors accessing DS18B20 on Pi using w1

2016-11-05 Thread Colin Law
On 5 November 2016 at 07:03, eni wrote: > Hello Colin, > > I've exactly the same problem, also with raspberry pi and w1-kernel-modul. > I've implemented a retry on client-side (OWNet.pm), this works mostly in > the > second try, maximum at the fourth time. > could it be there is a timing problem

Re: [Owfs-developers] Temperature from humidity sensor

2016-10-14 Thread Colin Law
On 14 October 2016 at 13:47, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 14.10.2016 um 09:36 schrieb Colin Law: > > On 14 October 2016 at 00:25, Jan Kandziora wrote: > > > >> Am 14.10.2016 um 00:01 schrieb Michael Hughes: > >>> If I read the humidity from: > &

Re: [Owfs-developers] Temperature from humidity sensor

2016-10-14 Thread Colin Law
On 14 October 2016 at 00:25, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 14.10.2016 um 00:01 schrieb Michael Hughes: > > If I read the humidity from: > > > > /uncached/1F.49D1/main/26A82915002E/humidity > > > > and then read the temperature from: > > > > /1F.49D1/main/26A82915002E/temperatu

Re: [Owfs-developers] ESP8266+DS18B20 and owfs

2016-10-14 Thread Colin Law
On 13 October 2016 at 16:01, Sven Geggus wrote: > Hello, > > is there a software connecting a ESP8266+DS18B20 to an existing owfs > infrastructure > (e.g. owserver)? > > Hardware would be like this: > http://www.elec-cafe.com/temperature-sensor-on-the-web- > with-esp8266-and-ds18b20/ An alterna

Re: [Owfs-developers] DS2482S-100 with an R-Pi

2016-10-01 Thread Colin Law
On 1 October 2016 at 11:43, Arne Raaen wrote: > > Should this line be: > > $ sudo apt-get install -t testing owserver ow-shell I think either will do, if they were already installed. If not installed then it should be install obviously. Colin > > > ? > > > On 09.09.2016 02.37, Jan Kandziora w

Re: [Owfs-developers] Owserver on pi (zero) using DS18B20 and pullup resistor

2016-09-19 Thread Colin Law
On 19 September 2016 at 13:23, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 19.09.2016 um 10:42 schrieb Colin Law: >> I have been trying >> to get to grips with device tree and (on pi with raspbian jessie) in >> /boot/overlays/README it says >> >> "Device Tree makes i

Re: [Owfs-developers] Owserver on pi (zero) using DS18B20 and pullup resistor

2016-09-19 Thread Colin Law
On 4 September 2016 at 19:59, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 04.09.2016 um 19:08 schrieb Colin Law: >> ... >> To summarize then, for parasitic mode I should not need an external >> strong pullup and should be able to use just a 1.5k pullup and to >> specify >> d

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 September 2016 at 11:52, Johan Ström wrote: > On 10/09/16 12:13, Colin Law wrote: >> On 10 September 2016 at 10:21, Johan Ström wrote: >>> ... >>> I suggest the following: >>> >>> a) For public site, use Github Pages with Jekyll. >>> We

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 September 2016 at 13:02, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 10.09.2016 um 11:22 schrieb Colin Law: >> Is there really a need for two? Why >> not just have everything in one? >> > Because of access rights. GitHub only allows full developer access to > anything or no rights

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 September 2016 at 10:21, Johan Ström wrote: > ... > I suggest the following: > > a) For public site, use Github Pages with Jekyll. > We (the developer community) would use git to push files which are > rendered & published automatically by github on push. > If someone is more confortable wit

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 September 2016 at 01:00, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 08.09.2016 um 22:32 schrieb Johan Ström: >> >> .. what else? >> > First: I'd love to get rid of are these personal blogs who give stray > information bites which are quickly outdated and totally out of control. > This is the source of most m

Re: [Owfs-developers] Datanab MAX31850 reading

2016-09-09 Thread Colin Law
On 9 September 2016 at 15:20, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > On 09.09.2016 15:50, Uwe Bonnes wrote: >> So you mean that */temperature* should return the thermocouple temperature >> and */thermocouple should vanish and */coldjunction (or a similar name) >> should appear and return the internal tempe

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-08 Thread Colin Law
On 8 September 2016 at 09:20, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 08.09.2016 um 09:58 schrieb Colin Law: >> On 7 September 2016 at 23:03, Jan Kandziora wrote: >>> ... >>> In reality, we don't need this "simple" markup when all the people who >>> a

Re: [Owfs-developers] New site

2016-09-08 Thread Colin Law
On 7 September 2016 at 23:03, Jan Kandziora wrote: > ... > In reality, we don't need this "simple" markup when all the people who > are contributing to the documentation are developers. Not necessarily true. I have recently been guided on this list as to how to interface 1-wire devices to a Raspb

Re: [Owfs-developers] Read errors accessing DS18B20 on Pi using w1

2016-09-05 Thread Colin Law
On 5 September 2016 at 20:13, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 05.09.2016 um 17:23 schrieb Colin Law: >> As in an earlier thread I am using an DS18B20 directly connected to >> GPIO pins of a Pi Zero with 1.5k pullup, operating at 3.3v. Owserver >> is version 3.1p1-6 from raspbian

[Owfs-developers] Read errors accessing DS18B20 on Pi using w1

2016-09-05 Thread Colin Law
As in an earlier thread I am using an DS18B20 directly connected to GPIO pins of a Pi Zero with 1.5k pullup, operating at 3.3v. Owserver is version 3.1p1-6 from raspbian testing. I have specified dtoverlay=w1-gpio,gpiopin=4 and done sudo modprobe w1-gpio pullup=1 This basically works, both when c

Re: [Owfs-developers] Owserver on pi (zero) using DS18B20 and pullup resistor

2016-09-05 Thread Colin Law
On 4 September 2016 at 19:59, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 04.09.2016 um 19:08 schrieb Colin Law: >> >> I have it to 3.3V ok. So 4.7k is ok for 3 wire mode but for parasitic >> it should be 1.5k >> > Yes. > >> >> To summarize then, for parasitic mode I

Re: [Owfs-developers] Owserver on pi (zero) using DS18B20 and pullup resistor

2016-09-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 September 2016 at 17:39, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 04.09.2016 um 17:21 schrieb Colin Law: >> >> Could I ask for further clarification on this please? I have used >> dtoverlay=w1-gpio,gpiopin=4 >> and installed the kernel module using >> sudo modprobe w1-gpio

Re: [Owfs-developers] Owserver on pi (zero) using DS18B20 and pullup resistor

2016-09-04 Thread Colin Law
On 3 September 2016 at 13:04, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 03.09.2016 um 10:36 schrieb Colin Law: > ... > 2. You have to put > > dtoverlay=w1-gpio,gpiopin=4 > > or > > dtoverlay=w1-gpio-pullup,gpiopin=4,pullup=5 > > into your Raspberry Pi boot partition config.txt.

Re: [Owfs-developers] Owserver on pi (zero) using DS18B20 and pullup resistor

2016-09-03 Thread Colin Law
On 3 September 2016 at 14:00, Colin Law wrote: > On 3 September 2016 at 13:45, Jan Kandziora wrote: >> Am 03.09.2016 um 14:28 schrieb Colin Law: >>> >>> Many thanks >>> >> I missed one thing: you have to load the w1-gpio kernel module! > > Whic

Re: [Owfs-developers] Owserver on pi (zero) using DS18B20 and pullup resistor

2016-09-03 Thread Colin Law
On 3 September 2016 at 13:45, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 03.09.2016 um 14:28 schrieb Colin Law: >> >> Many thanks >> > I missed one thing: you have to load the w1-gpio kernel module! Which I do, I think, by running (only once) sudo

Re: [Owfs-developers] Owserver on pi (zero) using DS18B20 and pullup resistor

2016-09-03 Thread Colin Law
On 3 September 2016 at 13:04, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 03.09.2016 um 10:36 schrieb Colin Law: >> I want to use owserver on a raspberry pi (zero) running Raspbian >> (Jessie) using the method of direct connection to GPIO pins with a >> pullup resistor. Unfortunately I have f

[Owfs-developers] Owserver on pi (zero) using DS18B20 and pullup resistor

2016-09-03 Thread Colin Law
I want to use owserver on a raspberry pi (zero) running Raspbian (Jessie) using the method of direct connection to GPIO pins with a pullup resistor. Unfortunately I have found a fair amount of conflicting and confusing information on this around the web. Is there an up to date and authoritative w

Re: [Owfs-developers] Raspberry Pi Jessie owfs-3.1.p1 w1-driver = 85c

2016-05-01 Thread Colin Law
On 1 May 2016 at 12:35, John Bass wrote: > Hello Colin, > > You got it, with a 1k resistor(which Jan recommended rather than a 4.7k) from > VDD to DQ as the pull up.. Not from VDD, from 3v to DQ. Colin > > I'm miffed as well... > > John > > -Orig

Re: [Owfs-developers] Raspberry Pi Jessie owfs-3.1.p1 w1-driver = 85c

2016-05-01 Thread Colin Law
run a few more tests soon, as Jan does not seem to be able to > reproduce the issue, there must be something wrong here. > > I will test the sensor with all three wires connected to make sure it has not > gone south. > > John > > -Original Message- > From: Coli

Re: [Owfs-developers] Raspberry Pi Jessie owfs-3.1.p1 w1-driver = 85c

2016-05-01 Thread Colin Law
On 30 April 2016 at 09:35, John Bass wrote: > OK, just had a read around the good old internet, and found other people with > the same issue, down to power yet again.. > > So popped another 1k in parallel thus 500ohms and now it works :-), but not > reliable :-( getting the odd 85 How long is t

Re: [Owfs-developers] How to remove and start again?

2016-04-30 Thread Colin Law
lp Colin > Mick > > On 29/04/16 16:53, Colin Law wrote: >> On 29 April 2016 at 16:28, Mick Sulley wrote: >>> As I was getting desperate I delete ow* from /usr/bin and reinstalled 3.0.0 >>> Just run your commands and I get - >>> >>> co

Re: [Owfs-developers] How to remove and start again?

2016-04-29 Thread Colin Law
aid you purged owfs, but it is owserver that is installed, so apt-get purge owserver Colin > > > On 29/04/16 16:15, Colin Law wrote: >> On 29 April 2016 at 15:42, Mick Sulley wrote: >>> My Raspi failed overnight and I am trying to recreate it and pulling my >>>

Re: [Owfs-developers] How to remove and start again?

2016-04-29 Thread Colin Law
On 29 April 2016 at 15:42, Mick Sulley wrote: > My Raspi failed overnight and I am trying to recreate it and pulling my > hair out!! I have installed owfs many times, generally downloading from > SourceForge and installing from that. I have done that this time, it > didn't work so I removed it (

Re: [Owfs-developers] DS18B20 Question

2016-03-01 Thread Colin Law
On 1 March 2016 at 21:56, Peter Hollenbeck wrote: > I must have something else wrong. When I connect the DS18B20 without a > resistor the MS-TV disappears. Is that with the correct connections or the original wrong ones? Correct the wiring, if it is wrong, and try again. Check the manual for the

Re: [Owfs-developers] DS18B20 Question

2016-03-01 Thread Colin Law
On 1 March 2016 at 18:48, Peter Hollenbeck wrote: > I have a Raspberry Pi with LinkUSB and a MS-TV reading DC voltage. This > works. > Yesterday I added an Adafruit DS18B20 waterproof temperature sensor and it > worked for a while. > This morning neither the MS-TV nor the DS18B20 are seen by owfs.

Re: [Owfs-developers] To the people willing to look at what I am thinking about for control systems

2016-02-24 Thread Colin Law
On 24 February 2016 at 14:57, Arley Carter wrote: > Jerry: > Forgive me if you consider these stupid questions. Why is your house so > complex? > How does this development project add value to your house? > > The humble thermostat does the job for me. It is cheap and has never > failed me and has

Re: [Owfs-developers] Hub Suggestions

2015-11-08 Thread Colin Law
On 8 November 2015 at 01:32, Peter Hollenbeck wrote: > I've not attempted I2C. > Fear and trembling. Since you already have the linkusb there is no need to change what you have. Just connect the other devices to the linkusb along with the existing sensor. If you did not have the linkusb then us

Re: [Owfs-developers] Ocean Temperature

2015-11-07 Thread Colin Law
On 7 November 2015 at 18:29, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 07.11.2015 um 17:24 schrieb Colin Law: >>> >>> *BUT* this only works when the host ground is *not connected* to earth, >>> not even by a noise filter. >>> As soon it is, your circuit isn't symetric

Re: [Owfs-developers] Ocean Temperature

2015-11-07 Thread Colin Law
On 7 November 2015 at 15:18, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 07.11.2015 um 10:26 schrieb Colin Law: >>> >>> When you connect the ground line to data-, you have a different current >>> on the common ground/data- line because the ground line also carries the >>>

Re: [Owfs-developers] Ocean Temperature

2015-11-07 Thread Colin Law
On 6 November 2015 at 23:33, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 06.11.2015 um 23:35 schrieb Colin Law: >> >> What twisted pair does do is to reduce electromagnetic pickup. > ... > > But it is the also the reason it doesn't work this way for onewire. > Because one

Re: [Owfs-developers] Ocean Temperature

2015-11-06 Thread Colin Law
On 6 November 2015 at 22:30, Jan Kandziora wrote: > Am 06.11.2015 um 23:15 schrieb Colin Reese: >> Pairing conductors eliminates capacitance problem. >> > No, it doesn't. You always have ground capacitance, the only way to > avoid that is separating the DQ wire from the ground wire as far as > pos

Re: [Owfs-developers] owserver don't detect the ds2482s-800 anymore

2015-09-21 Thread Colin Law
On 21 September 2015 at 09:50, Nico Bouthoorn wrote: > > I'm really puzzled, last night i've got a main power shortage. I'm running > the owfs on a beaglebone (http://fstab.nl/beaglebone) with linux Debian > This was working fine for years. Now the owserver don't detect the > ds2482-800 devic

Re: [Owfs-developers] deleting /mnt/1wire folders and files.

2015-06-06 Thread Colin Law
On 6 June 2015 at 14:05, Reid wrote: > Thanks Colin, can you point me to any good examples of the use of owserver > with the USB D9490R interface. I use the linkusb interface, but I don't think there should be much difference. To start owserver I just do owserver -d /dev/ttyUSB1 By the way, I w

Re: [Owfs-developers] deleting /mnt/1wire folders and files.

2015-06-06 Thread Colin Law
On 6 June 2015 at 11:06, Reid wrote: > Thanks Mick, I had rebooted but when I saw the file /mnt/1wire I thought the > other files would still be there. When I checked all the subfolders had > magically disappeared. This is good news but a little alarming that files > can disappear when you reboot

Re: [Owfs-developers] owpython

2015-05-20 Thread Colin Law
On 20 May 2015 at 18:43, DavidJ61 wrote: > I really don't believe it. The device directories has suddenly appeared in > /mnt/1wire hours after I finished trying to get it working. As for the > owpython, I've given up on that and opted for just reading the values > directly from the directory struc

Re: [Owfs-developers] Temp Logging

2015-03-29 Thread Colin Law
On 29 March 2015 at 15:34, Michael Kalist wrote: > Sorry I thought I had that included. > > > This parts displays on the screen correctly > echo -e Garage In $temp1"\n"Garage Return $temp2"\n""\n"Bedroom IN > $temp3"\n"Bedroom Return $temp4"\n""\n"Main Floor IN $temp5"\n"Main Floor > RTN $temp6"\n

Re: [Owfs-developers] Temp Logging

2015-03-29 Thread Colin Law
On 29 March 2015 at 14:32, wrote: > Hey All I cant seem to get this working. Temps either show wrong temp or no > temp in graphs. The first thing to do is to work out which bit is failing. See below > ... > #!/bin/bash > > # Read temperature from sensor > > temp1=`cat /mnt/owfs/uncached/Garag

Re: [Owfs-developers] Raspi : Debian get-apt install vs generic install

2015-01-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 January 2015 at 12:51, Ekkehard Pofahl wrote: > Stefano, > > Thank you ! > > This works. Although it is not obvious for me, why it has to be that > tidious, ;-) . When you install a package it installs that package and may also install other packages that the first one needs in order to fun

Re: [Owfs-developers] tty2usb

2014-10-06 Thread Colin Law
On 6 October 2014 04:30, Paul Alfille wrote: > After all the discussion about serial and usb pairing, I created a new > little program that does it, called tty2usb > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/tty2usb > > Currently it only works on linux, but OSX and freebsd would be useful to > add. > > Ex

Re: [Owfs-developers] How to tell if 1-wire hardware is plugged in?

2014-09-28 Thread Colin Law
On 28 September 2014 15:00, Chris Green wrote: > I have a 1-wire installation which I am trying to diagnose remotely. > > A few days ago I had to replace the Beaglebone Black that was running > with another one becuase I corrupted the memory on the original one > and didn't have the ability to fix

Re: [Owfs-developers] Issues with FTDI based USB-Serial dongle & DS2480B

2014-09-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 September 2014 11:10, Stefano Miccoli wrote: > > On 24 Sep 2014, at 16:21, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 04:09:23PM +0200, Ekkehard Pofahl wrote: > > 2014-09-24 12:29 GMT+02:00 Colin Law : > > unplug a linkUSB and plug it straight back in then it m

Re: [Owfs-developers] Issues with FTDI based USB-Serial dongle & DS2480B

2014-09-24 Thread Colin Law
On 24 September 2014 15:21, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 04:09:23PM +0200, Ekkehard Pofahl wrote: >> 2014-09-24 12:29 GMT+02:00 Colin Law : >> >> > unplug a linkUSB and plug it straight back in then it may change >> >> >> Agreed. But plug

Re: [Owfs-developers] Issues with FTDI based USB-Serial dongle & DS2480B

2014-09-24 Thread Colin Law
On 24 September 2014 15:09, Ekkehard Pofahl wrote: > > 2014-09-24 12:29 GMT+02:00 Colin Law : >> >> unplug a linkUSB and plug it straight back in then it may change > > > Agreed. But plugging and unplugging is usually not done on a "production" > syst

Re: [Owfs-developers] Issues with FTDI based USB-Serial dongle & DS2480B

2014-09-24 Thread Colin Law
On 24 September 2014 11:08, Ekkehard Pofahl wrote: > > 2014-09-24 11:45 GMT+02:00 Colin Law : >> >> Whilst useful, that will not get round the problem that ttyusb devices >> do not always connect with the same device number. > > > Very true. Just make a

Re: [Owfs-developers] Issues with FTDI based USB-Serial dongle & DS2480B

2014-09-24 Thread Colin Law
On 24 September 2014 09:44, Ekkehard Pofahl wrote: > Hello, > > I agree, that the OWFS server should not start testing each and every > possibility of the system, to find, whether there are 1-Wire devices > connected. > > To resolve this I suggest to implement something like > > "sudo service owse

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