Re: [Owfs-developers] DS18B20 Question

2016-03-01 Thread Eric Vickery
Definitely sounds like the 1-Wire bus is getting shorted out. > On Mar 1, 2016, at 3:56 PM, Peter Hollenbeck wrote: > > I must have something else wrong. When I connect the DS18B20 without a > resistor the MS-TV disappears. > > Odd that it worked last night - with a 5K resistor. > I do not kno

Re: [Owfs-developers] Read time slots and instantiation

2014-10-06 Thread Eric Vickery
I was about to say basically what Michael said. If the DS18B20 is using parasitic power then you can’t do the read command or it can cause the T convert to fail. Eric > On Oct 6, 2014, at 4:02 PM, Colin Reese wrote: > > Hello all, > > Here is an interesting wrinkle that is not really owfs, b

Re: [Owfs-developers] Limited Simultaneous Conversions?

2014-07-10 Thread Eric Vickery
Colin, Unless the devices are externally powered that won’t work reliably. For instance a DS19S20 requires a strong pull-up during the entire conversion time so if you are issuing more Match ROM commands during the conversion time the bus activity may keep the DS18S20 from completing the conver

Re: [Owfs-developers] 1-wire network problems

2014-01-31 Thread Eric Vickery
Colin, This sounds very strange, a 5 meter cable is not that long and should not be causing any problems. You say that you have tried a different PI and LinkUSB but have you tried a different power supply? Also do you have a different type of 1-Wire master besides the LinkUSB that you could tr

Re: [Owfs-developers] 1-wire network problems

2014-01-27 Thread Eric Vickery
Colin, Are your devices truly connected in series or are there some stubs? If you have a power injector in the system I’m not sure why the LinkUSB light would dim at all. Eric On Jan 27, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Colin Tinker wrote: > Jim > > All my cables are EIA 568B Some I made some I bought.

Re: [Owfs-developers] MultiMeter Type Device

2013-09-13 Thread Eric Vickery
are always useful but > cost/benefit is usually the limiting factor. > > Cheers > Mick > > On 12/09/13 23:09, Eric Vickery wrote: >> I am looking at developing a multi-meter of sorts I want to get some input >> from the group. >> What voltage ranges would be most

[Owfs-developers] MultiMeter Type Device

2013-09-12 Thread Eric Vickery
I am looking at developing a multi-meter of sorts I want to get some input from the group. What voltage ranges would be most useful to you? What current ranges would be most useful to you? Do you have a need for a 4-20ma reader? How many channels would you like to see? Any other ideas you might ha

Re: [Owfs-developers] (older - HIH3610) hobby boards humidty sensor reading

2013-07-25 Thread Eric Vickery
I don't know if this is the issue but unless you have a very old humidity board then you should be getting the readings from the HIH4000 directory. The HIH3600 and HIH4000 sensors use slightly different formula for calculating the humidity. Eric On Jul 25, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Rick Bolen(gm) wro

Re: [Owfs-developers] Voltage sensor

2012-12-04 Thread Eric Vickery
Another way to do it is to use our 8 Channel I/O and a wall wart to detect when power is lost. Eric www.hobbyboards.com On 12/4/2012 11:08 AM, Silvano Gai wrote: > I need to sense the presence of AC power (110 Volts) in six different > places. > Any 1Wire sensor recommended? > Power detection (o

Re: [Owfs-developers] 1-Wire Presence Pulse

2012-06-18 Thread Eric Vickery
There is a way for slaves to announce their presence on the bus by providing a presence pulse when they are powered up. I'm not sure if all slaves to this or just some (or all) of the iButtons. Also I don't know which masters or software supports this, it is mainly used for things like door loc

Re: [Owfs-developers] 1-Wire Presence Pulse

2012-06-18 Thread Eric Vickery
On 6/16/2012 3:27 PM, Eloy Paris wrote: > Hi Phil, > > On 06/16/2012 07:43 AM, Phil White wrote: > >> On 13 June 2012 02:01, Eloy Paris wrote: >> >>> All 1-Wire devices have this "presence pulse" feature that you mention >>> -- that's a fundamental part of the protocol, and all slave devices ne

Re: [Owfs-developers] know problem with ds18b20

2012-02-29 Thread Eric Vickery
Even if they are powered you have to make sure you are waiting long enough before taking a reading after a temperature convert. At 12bits the DS18B20 takes as long as the DS18S20 (around 750mS). On 2/29/2012 8:12 PM, Roberto Spadim wrote: > yes hehe my is the second, i connect 5v, 0v and owbus

Re: [Owfs-developers] Hobby Boards Humidity Sensor Question

2012-02-27 Thread Eric Vickery
It is the voltage regulator heating up the board, it usually stays at a consistent amount so you can subtract the "offset" and get the correct temperature. Also the DS2438 has self heating issues so I would not use the temperature from the DS2438. We offer the combined board but we recommend u

Re: [Owfs-developers] Best Linux Distro for OWFS

2012-02-24 Thread Eric Vickery
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: On 20 February 2012 21:33, Eric Vickery <eric...@hobby-boards.com> wrote: > I already use VMWare on this machine so I figured I would use

Re: [Owfs-developers] Best Linux Distro for OWFS

2012-02-20 Thread Eric Vickery
I already use VMWare on this machine so I figured I would use what I already have. On 2/20/2012 2:34 PM, Colin Law wrote: > On 20 February 2012 20:16, Eric Vickery wrote: >> I want to setup OWFS under VMware and I want to know what is the best distro >> to use for OWFS.

[Owfs-developers] Best Linux Distro for OWFS

2012-02-20 Thread Eric Vickery
I want to setup OWFS under VMware and I want to know what is the best distro to use for OWFS. Thanks, Eric -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft d

Re: [Owfs-developers] Hubs

2012-02-08 Thread Eric Vickery
We (http://www.hobby-boards.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=23&products_id=1561) have a few Hub left in stock. Eric Hobby Boards On 2/8/2012 4:49 PM, Mick Sulley wrote: > Having decided that I need to add a hub to my system I am having great > trouble finding one. > > I saw the AAG unit on

Re: [Owfs-developers] Hubs

2012-01-25 Thread Eric Vickery
Unfortunately not. Last time I tried to order some the lead time was something like 8 months. On 1/25/2012 5:02 PM, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 01:47:28PM -0600, Eric Vickery wrote: >> We will be coming out with a replacement for our Hub. It is in the design >

Re: [Owfs-developers] Hubs

2012-01-25 Thread Eric Vickery
We will be coming out with a replacement for our Hub. It is in the design stage. There are a few other things that have to get completed before it gets much attention but it is a high priority. Eric www.hobbyboards.com On 1/25/2012 12:36 PM, Mark Richards wr

Re: [Owfs-developers] Serial<->USB and/or Serial<->Ethernet

2012-01-04 Thread Eric Vickery
2net is a widely available utility that seems to support the Xport products among others. Paul Alfille On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Eric Vickery <eric...@hobby-boards.com> wrote: This is not exactly directly related t

[Owfs-developers] Serial<->USB and/or Serial<->Ethernet

2012-01-04 Thread Eric Vickery
This is not exactly directly related to OWFS but this is the best Linux list I am on. I am thinking about designing a new device 1-Wire Hub that has either a USB or Ethernet interface and I am wondering if Linux has built-in drivers for Serial<->USB and/or Serial<->Ethernet. That way I could

Re: [Owfs-developers] Newbie with baromter/humidity question

2011-10-18 Thread Eric Vickery
Are you trying to read humidity and pressure from the same device? If so then it won't work. The Barometer and the Humidity devices use the same 1-Wire chip (DS2438) but none of our devices have both pressure and humidity on the same device. Eric www.hobby-boards.com On 10/18/2011 4:53 PM, pw

[Owfs-developers] Hobby Boards LCD Ideas

2010-12-10 Thread Eric Vickery
If we (Hobby Boards) were to come out with a new 1-Wire LCD module what features would everyone like to see? Let me know if this is not an appropriate post. Thanks, Eric -- Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn ab

Re: [Owfs-developers] 1WRJ45 Standard(?)

2008-04-07 Thread Eric Vickery
iButtonLink uses a wiring scheme that is compatible with ours but AAG doesn't. They only use RJ11 connectors and I don't think all of their products have the same pinout. Eric www.hobby-boards.com Paul Alfille wrote: As far a I can tell, Maxim doesn't make a product with RJ45. All their kits

Re: [Owfs-developers] DS2423 question

2007-10-07 Thread Eric Vickery
Gregg, There shouldn't be any problem with this. As long as the SSR can provide a pulse that goes from +5v to 0v it should work fine our Lightning Detector counts pulses from an opto-isolator. Eric www.hobby-boards.com Gregg Levine wrote: > Hello! > Working my way through a new project has cre

Re: [Owfs-developers] DS9097 and DS9490

2007-09-25 Thread Eric Vickery
We have the DS9097 in stock right now. We will have the DS9094 back in stock in the first week of October. Eric www.hobby-boards.com suman- wrote: > Does anyone know where can I get a few more DS9097 and DS9490 adapters? > > I am trying to buy them turns out to be very hard to find them

Re: [Owfs-developers] DS2760 question

2007-08-19 Thread Eric Vickery
John, It sounds like the DS2760 is in sleep mode. You can look at the thread here http://www.weathertoys.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=70. It talks about our Moisture Meter but is the same for any DS2760 based device. Hope that helps. Eric www.hobby-boards.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So far,

Re: [Owfs-developers] LCD / AAGelectronica design

2007-01-31 Thread Eric Vickery
Here is the Hobby Boards LCD Driver schematic http://www.hobby-boards.com/catalog/links/lcd2-r1/LCD%20Driver%20v2.0%20Schematic.pdf Eric www.hobby-boards.com Gregg C Levine wrote: > Hello! > Paul, everyone, can all of you describe, or better yet, point me to the > schematic for the Hobby Boards

Re: [Owfs-developers] Odd 85 deg temperature readings again

2006-12-05 Thread Eric Vickery
the extreme high or low end to make it easier to tell when an error occurred. Eric Mark Richards wrote: > You can't. > > So instead if I see an 85C result, I issue the fix code and read again. > > It's inconsequential in the scheme of things. > > Eric Vickery

Re: [Owfs-developers] Odd 85 deg temperature readings again

2006-12-05 Thread Eric Vickery
An 85 is returned if the temperature conversion had a problem or is not finished yet. The problem is how can you tell when it is a good reading of 85. Eric Darryl wrote: > On 12/5/06, Mark Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dallas had an issue with 18B20, 18S20, 18B20-PAR, and 18S20-PAR dev

Re: [Owfs-developers] Hobby Boards questions

2006-12-05 Thread Eric Vickery
I have been toying with the idea of doing something similar for my devices. Kind of an extension of the tagging "standard" that Dallas came up with. I have a few devices now that could use it and some on the drawing board that will really need something like this to make them easier to use. Th

Re: [Owfs-developers] DS2408 LCD - can't get it to work

2006-11-19 Thread Eric Vickery
Make sure that you have your wiring correct since the pinout of the 4x40 is different than all the others 2x40 or smaller. Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I seem to be having similar troubles too. I'm using a hobby-boards > driver on a 4x40 LC4857FG-SNYLV (which is essentially two 2x40 LCD's

Re: [Owfs-developers] One-Wire Networking and other networks

2006-08-06 Thread Eric Vickery
BTW I agree with what David wrote and as always he did a much much better job of explaining than I did. Eric Vickery www.hobby-boards.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gregg Levine Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 9:00 PM To: owfs-devel

Re: [Owfs-developers] One-Wire Networking and other networks

2006-08-06 Thread Eric Vickery
You just have to watch running 1-Wire and anything else in the same cable. The 1-Wire protocol can be very touchy, it was originally designed for a 1-Wire slave to be a few inches away from the master not many feet. That being said it can be done but there are so many factors that it is hard to say

Re: [Owfs-developers] LCD control with DS2408

2006-08-03 Thread Eric Vickery
Title: Message That is a really strange reference design and I hadn't see that one before, it doesn't make any sense to tie D7 to ground. All of the other 1-Wire designs I have seen are 4 bit, including AAGs and the one in the data sheet for the DS2408. Since there are only 8 I/O lines and R

Re: [Owfs-developers] DS2406 - output bytes in serial fashion?

2006-07-09 Thread Eric Vickery
I think that would be pretty hard in 1-Wire. I'm not sure the 1-Wire data stream would be consistent enough for IR communications. I think using something like a PIC would be a better route, plus you can get some PICs for a good bit cheaper than the DS2406. My $0.02 Eric -Original Message---

Re: [Owfs-developers] Looking for a One Wire Latched Sensor

2006-06-10 Thread Eric Vickery
The LCD Driver has solder pads for 3 switch inputs so it should work, but I have not had any reports of people using it that way. You would just need to make sure that what you are going to sense is in the range of 0-5v DC. Eric www.hobby-boards.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Owfs-developers] Looking for a One Wire Latched Sensor

2006-06-10 Thread Eric Vickery
If you only need 1 or 2 channels the DS2406 also has activity latches. Eric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Alfille Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2006 12:54 PM To: owfs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Owfs-developers] Lookin