owshell reads it's data from owserver. Basically owfs (the filesystem) can be accessed with normal file commands (like read and write from any language or cat/ls/... from the command line). It needs the FUSE library, and runs on linux, some BSDs and perhaps OSX. Not windows.
owshell (owdir/owread/owwrite) reads data from owserver directly (well, over a network connection). It can span machines, which is harder to do with owfs. (You can play with ssh or nfs but it's much harder to set up). So far in my explanation, the two systems are similar, but distinct. However, owserver can feed owfs (even over a network connection), owhttpd, owftpd, and any of the direct language bindings, all simultaneously. Clearly there is some redundancy in the plumbing. The one point to remember is that only one program should be talking to the physical bus masters directly. owfs can do it. owserver can do it. So can owhttpd. If you want more than one, let owserver coordinate everything. Now why owserver isn't included in the openwrt build I can't say. Is it bundled separately? Paul Alfille On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > I have installed owfs and owshell on openwrt (from the openwrt > repository) on a linksyswrt54g and am a bit confused about owshell. > I can successfully run owfs and then see the 1wire bus as a directory > and can read values from the sensors. > The question is, what is owshell for? It seems to provide commands > such as owdir and owread but they don't actually seem to do anything. > On my PC with owserver installed then they do work, but owserver does > not seem to be in the openwrt repository. > > Can someone clarify the relationship between these packages for me? > > Colin > -- > gplus.to/clanlaw > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 > _______________________________________________ > Owfs-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers
