Hi Paul,

Paul Alfille wrote:
> Ok, I'm perplexed.
no need to be ;)
>
> OWFS definitely shows new devices that appear during use.

thats what i suspect anyway !!! - but i am unsure about why pyowfs 
shouldnt behave the same ...
unfortunately i currently have no time to test/find out what and how ...
>
> There are two frequent cases, however:
> 1. Long running static device networks, where the cost of confirming a 
> device's existence every time is burdensome.
> 2. Cases where a devices appearance is a signal in itself (switches, 
> iButton keys, some designs of the wind directions, ...)
>
> In general requesting the "/uncached" directory forces a new search of 
> the 1-wire bus.
> This works for owserver, owhttpd, owfs, owperl, owdir, ownet.pm 
> <http://ownet.pm>, ...

so it should also work for libcapi ... ?!?

>
> I don't know about the owpython implementation, which seems to have an 
> elaborate wrapper and some slightly different vision of how things are 
> implemented.
you mean pyowfs i suggest ?!?

hehe ;)  -  well, see the how's and why's on priesch.co.at/pyowfs - 
mainly it was only implemented because owpython failed in accessing 
memory locations containing binary "\x00"'s ...
>
> If you are wed to python (a fine choice) the code is all open-source, 
> there are several implementations, and you can always call owdir or 
> owfs/filesystem from your code.

yep ... but, however, i will dig into why it isnt working as expected - 
hopefully before wednesday - im off then until sunday ...

all the best,
marcus.
>
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Mick Sulley <m...@sulley.info 
> <mailto:m...@sulley.info>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Marcus,
>
>     Sorry I am late joining this thread, I am just catching up.
>
>     I would also like to see this functionality.  I monitor a pressure
>     switch and the easy and cheap way to do it seemed to be to use a
>     DS1820
>     temperature sensor wired through the pressure switch.  If I see the
>     temperature sensor then the switch is made.  This works fine if the
>     switch is made when the program starts but if not it never sees it.
>
>     Cheers
>     Mick
>
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