On Sat, January 7, 2006 8:45, Paul Alfille said: > On Friday 06 January 2006 01:47 pm, Tim Sailer wrote: >> I know the barometer from aag.com.mx isn't a discrete 1wire device, but >> has anyone looked at what it would take to get it working with owfs? >> >> Tim > Yup. I looked. Even bought one. A rather clever arangement, two 2406's > that > synthesize a 2-wire interface to a sensor. > > The code is available on the AAG site, though I'm not sure of the > licensing. > > The real issue is that the device sits rather awkwardly on the file-system > design. It appears as two 2406's with assymetric properties. You need > external information to determine which chips belong to which larger > device. > You also have to decide if the underlying 2406's should be hidden. > > Devices that are only a single chip are easy. The DS2438 humidity sensor > is a > good example, as is Louis Swart's LCD and the DS246x thermocouples. > Multiple > chip devices are less obvious. > > Any thoughts? This is clearly a problem that needs fixing. The iButton > people > have a number of these "SuperSlaves".
I'll take a look at their code, and see if I can figure something out. If I remember right, the device isn't all that costly. I should just purchase one and see what I can do with it... Tim ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list Owfs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers
