Thank you.

I no longer need to use w1, so i2c only is fine and seems easier to use.

With only a bit of tweaking (mostly just using "server: i2c=ALL:ALL") those
instructions worked perfectly.  Thank you!

Juliean.

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Jan Kandziora <j...@gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 08.09.2016 um 22:38 schrieb Juliean Galak:
> > I'd like to use a newer Raspbian distro (Jessie, Kernel 4.4) and am
> > wondering if just installing OWFS with apt-get will do the trick.  Are
> the
> > drivers needed for this in place?
> >
> If you don't use the w1 drivers, yes. But it is rather old,
> so you should update in any case.
>
> (The owfs version shipped with Jessie has a broken --w1 when
> working with kernel-3.16 as shipped with Jessie.)
>
> Testing(Stretch) has owfs-3.1p1. You can use the owfs packages
> from the Raspbian testing repository. Edit (or create) your
> /etc/apt/preferences to contain:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Package: *
> Pin: release o=Raspbian,a=stable
> Pin-Priority: 500
>
> Package: *
> Pin: release o=Raspbian,a=testing
> Pin-Priority: 300
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is important so you keep stable (Jessie) for all packages but the ones
> explicitly taken from testing (Stretch).
>
>
> Then, add a line
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> deb http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ testing main contrib
> non-free rpi
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> to your /etc/apt/sources.list to get access to the Raspbian testing
> repository.
>
> Do an
>
> $ sudo apt-get update
>
> to read the package metadata, then check
>
> $ sudo apt-cache policy
>
> whether the testing repo is there with priority 300. Then
>
> $ sudo apt-get update -t testing owserver ow-shell
>
> That should install all you need, including the startup files and systemd
> units.
> Note you have to edit /etc/owfs.conf again to contain (this and only this)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> !server: server = localhost:4304
> server: w1
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Restart the owserver service after that.
>
> Kind regards
>
>         Jan
>
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