Re: [Owfs-developers] What are CRC16 errors

2012-01-10 Thread Nick
s essential for reliability. Having moved from breadboard to a PCB with slave on, I added this to the network at the weekend and again had at least 50% data errors, and it was an "oh no, not again" feeling. However as soon as I connected the unused white/green at the master, it became 10

Re: [Owfs-developers] Fwd: [1-wire-software-development] Expired patent of Dallas/Maxim on 1-wire

2012-01-10 Thread Nick
they would be ok if for each slave that was created, the unique device ID was taken from a real part that was destroyed or at least never released into the wild so that there would never be a clash, or whether they simply don'

Re: [Owfs-developers] raspberry Pi and 1-wire

2012-01-10 Thread Nick
pi listings since they went in, and these are even more insane. Nick -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers wor

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

2011-12-16 Thread Nick
On 16/12/2011 01:08, Nathan Hurst wrote: > 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 off

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

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

2011-12-15 Thread Nick
for data and is fine as I said. I would welcome any views about why the experiments made a difference, such as different PC's, why laptop is fine and not PCs, connecting the LA earth etc. Nick -- 10 Tip

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

2011-12-15 Thread Nick
ire works out fine for the 10 temp sensors we currently have. Nick -- 10 Tips for Better Server Consolidation Server virtualization is being driven by many needs. But none more important than the need to reduce IT com

Re: [Owfs-developers] Embedded System

2011-12-04 Thread Nick
ks fine too. So that would be my vote unless you need much larger storage, in which case a laptop drive instead of SSD, or a separate NAS box. Also, it uses x86 instruction set making it likely that pre-built executables will run. Good luck. Nick

Re: [Owfs-developers] DS2431 missing CRC16 read slots, and LinkUSB is now at 1.5

2011-11-30 Thread Nick
and where it was expecting to receive read timeslots so that it could send back the ~CRC16. The flowcharts on the datasheet show nicely what the device is supposed to receive and send back. Nick -- All the data continuou

[Owfs-developers] DS2431 missing CRC16 read slots, and LinkUSB is now at 1.5

2011-11-29 Thread nick
recommendation for a different memory oriented part to emulate then the choice can easily be changed. It just needs to be a part that has about 8 bytes or so of writeable address space. Nick -- All the data continuously

[Owfs-developers] DS2409 coupler, Branch.ALL=1,1 ?

2011-04-23 Thread nick
I've been writing a small perl script to parse my 1-wire network giving just the immediately useful values back. One thing i have noticed is that the couplers are showing both branches are live when i read them (cached or un-cached values), which the man pages say is not allowed. *"Is the branch

Re: [Owfs-developers] Quick detection of 8 channel IO input changes?

2011-03-22 Thread nick
>> My current setup checks outdoor and greenhouse temp to determine >> whether to turn on a 240VAC power switch to heat up (or cool down) >> the greenhouse. owfs polls every 15 seconds? > owfs never poll on itself ! If owfs never polls itself, how does the cached directory structure get updated?

Re: [Owfs-developers] Quick detection of 8 channel IO input changes?

2011-03-21 Thread nick
lt;<<<<<<< |-- Office_Hub2 | |-- aux | `-- main |-- Office_Hub3 | |-- aux | `-- main |-- Test_DS1820_S | `-- errata |-- USB_Dongle2 `-- alarm <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< `-- Test_DS1820_S `--

[Owfs-developers] Broken aliases in 2.8p7

2011-03-06 Thread Nick Lindridge
ves a write error. In case it's relevant, there are eleven powered 18b20's on the network with a LinkUSB 1.4 driver. 2.8p4 appears to be the last good version. hth. Nick -- What You Don't Know About Data C

Re: [Owfs-developers] Dreaded 85 degrees C read from DS18B20 located outside

2011-03-02 Thread nick
ust fine. > > http://bytality.com/gallery/1-wire_setup/ > > As far as 85°C, my temp collection script takes a series of readings and > then tosses any that are outside a predefined distance from the average. > Granted, my aquarium should never hit anywhere near 85°C, but it got rid

Re: [Owfs-developers] Dreaded 85 degrees C read from DS18B20 located outside

2011-03-02 Thread nick
Here are my water proof sensors using copper pipe and HMA, they have worked well so far. http://kiwi-hacker.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-soil-temperature-sensors.html On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Mick Sulley wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 09:18 -0600, Guil Barros wrote: > > > Hhmmm. Interestin

Re: [Owfs-developers] Un-Mounting 1-wire

2011-02-28 Thread nick
I've found that you need to unmount the 1-wire mount point as well below is my init script, which you can edit and run. Rgds, Nick. #!/bin/sh # # # owfs - init script # # v1.0 - Nov2010 - CrossN - Initial re

[Owfs-developers] coupler select errors - why do they occur...

2011-02-14 Thread nick
I am getting a steady amount of select errors on my long-ish micro lan. I edited the owfs code to determine which select error i was actually getting, it seems i am getting a lot of BUS_transaction_nolock errors on the main branch of each of my couplers. No errors report on the aux branch strange

Re: [Owfs-developers] select_errors

2011-02-08 Thread nick
Excellent, that has done it. Can i ask why "bus.0" is in the path twice ? I hadn't noticed it before. Best Regards, On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Paul Alfille wrote: > What's your topology? I.e., it's possible that > $ cat /var/1wire/bus.0/bus.0/interface/statistics/select_errors ;echo