[Owfs-developers] Getting apparently random numbers from DS18S20

2014-04-11 Thread Chris Green
I have owfs running on a Beaglebone Black, apparently working OK. The 1-wire bus is connected via a DS2405 based USB device. It all *appears* to be working OK and I get the expected directories as follows:- /mnt/1-wire/05.4AEC29CDBAAB for the DS2405 /mnt/1-wire/10.67C6697351FF

Re: [Owfs-developers] Getting apparently random numbers from DS18S20

2014-04-11 Thread Paul Alfille
This is an interesting error -- I haven't seen it before. For the record, the DS2405 isn't a bus master -- it's a one-pin quirky switch. I gather you are running the file system (owfs) and logging in remotely with ssh. There are a number of possibilities -- floating point endian errors might be

Re: [Owfs-developers] Getting apparently random numbers from DS18S20

2014-04-11 Thread Paul Alfille
Ahha! Found the problem! (Rather embarrassing for me). The default package for owfs ships with a fake configuration file. Literally it uses the fake bus-master -- a bus master that returns random results to test the software rather than hardware. Clearly the change shouldn't be difficult -- the