On 02/27/2012 09:13 PM, Paul Alfille wrote: > Interesting idea. I've been tempted to build a special owserver that has > plug-in sensor code -- owexternal. > > The plug-in would get a separate mane space (perhaps > /external/sensor43/humidity) and have to report a few properties like > length, type, read/write and volatility. > > Plugins could be written in a variety of languages, and the owserver > protocol would be handled by owexternal. > > Is there interest in this?
Yes! Seems like a fantastic idea. Would allow people to build sensors that use whatever protocol and hardware interface they wish to use to communicate with the PC world and still use the owfs interface they are used to for 1-Wire devices. Eloy Paris.- > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:29 AM, ekgnkb3d <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Hi all, > beside using 1-Wire devices I would like to use other sensors as well. > Currently I play with an temp-sensor getting data very simple by a > serial > port. > > So writing all this polling, retry, alias, fuse (and a lot of other > functionality) again is a lot of effort - so maybe there is a way to > extend > the existing OWFS framework by own devices. E.g. some simply C > program or > scripting would be great and at the end the sensor could be accessed via > owserver and appear as HTTP, file-system or CAPI.... > > Is this somehow possible and documented? > Achim > -- > View this message in context: > > http://old.nabble.com/Extend-OWFS-to-other-Devices-tp33398846p33398846.html > Sent from the OWFS - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers
