Just write a daemon to write to a database as they're read and have the clients 
read from the database. 

C

> On Sep 23, 2015, at 5:35 AM, Alex R. Gibbs <agi...@lpl.arizona.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We have dozens of DS18B20 temperature sensors at 3 telescopes.  I'd like to 
> poll 
> them and cache the results so that other programs can retrieve the latest 
> temperatures with less than 50ms delay.  It doesn't matter if the values are 
> a 
> few minutes old; just that clients don't have to wait for a response.  I am 
> using owserver 3.1p0 on CentOS 6.5 64bit with a LinkHub-E.
> 
> Is it possible to configure owserver to continuously poll devices on it's 
> own? 
> The owserver cache works but of course once a value in the cache expires the 
> next request for it forces a read of the device, making the client wait about 
> 800ms.  If owserver can be set to poll devices then I can set the expire time 
> such that this usually never happens.
> 
> I tried having a background program poll the uncached values in owserver more 
> often than the volatile timeout so that the cached values are never 
> considered 
> expired.  However, a client still has to wait for a cached value if it is 
> currently being read out due to an uncached request, even if the cached value 
> isn't expired.  If that was changed I think this would work.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to setup polling so that a client can always get a 
> cached 
> value immediately?  I have a feeling I'll need to either modify owserver or 
> write my own server wrapper.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
> -- 
> Alex R. Gibbs - agi...@lpl.arizona.edu
> Principal Engineer - Catalina Sky Survey
> Lunar & Planetary Lab - University of Arizona
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