[Owfs-developers] Cables and standards and the One-Wire methods

2007-08-01 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! We've gone all over this many times before. I know, I started a thread and watched it evolve past its prime, but it seems to have surfaced yet again. On the RJ11 PDF that Maxim-IC/Dallas has prepared, (and is available there someplace) it describes which two wires are chosen as the One-Wire

Re: [Owfs-developers] How should we chain?

2007-08-01 Thread Doug Collinge
Presumably, the reason you are using chaining is so that you don't have to deal with device IDs. So one natural way to interface a chain is to make a "chain" directory and put the chained devices inside it, named "0", "1", "2", ... This way the order of the chain is naturally established by the a

Re: [Owfs-developers] How should we chain?

2007-08-01 Thread Paul Alfille
On 8/1/07, Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why commas? I'd use newlines, they're much more convenient for > sequential reading from script languages as well as C. There's that CR vs LF/CR problem between platforms > 3. Put the "chain" file under "simultaneous -- already a per-s

Re: [Owfs-developers] How should we chain?

2007-08-01 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Paul Alfille: > The new DS28EA00 is a temperature chip that has a special "chain" mode to > tell location. Specifically there are in/out pins that tell which chip is > connected to which. > Nice. Remind me to beat myself up because the wiring I've been using definitely doesn't have a spare wi

[Owfs-developers] How should we chain?

2007-08-01 Thread Paul Alfille
The new DS28EA00 is a temperature chip that has a special "chain" mode to tell location. Specifically there are in/out pins that tell which chip is connected to which. The description of chaining is at http://pdfserv.maxim-ic.com/en/an/AN4037.pdf and the DS28EA00 is at http://datasheets.maxim-ic.c

Re: [Owfs-developers] 2.6 kernels and OWFS

2007-08-01 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2007 14:41 schrieb Matthias Urlichs: > Hi, > > Jan Kandziora: > > I specifically think of onewire chips built into laptop batteries. As > > soon a user encounters such a device, wants to monitor it through the > > usual kernel hardware monitoring interfaces *and* connects som

Re: [Owfs-developers] 2.6 kernels and OWFS

2007-08-01 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Jan Kandziora: > I specifically think of onewire chips built into laptop batteries. As soon a > user encounters such a device, wants to monitor it through the usual kernel > hardware monitoring interfaces *and* connects some devices to the laptop > through owfs (e.g. servicing my vending ma

Re: [Owfs-developers] 2.6 kernels and OWFS

2007-08-01 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2007 12:58 schrieb Paul Alfille: > > So that is the status of the w1 interface. It's very linux-specific, and > even at best won't add any new function. I was more interested before we > managed to get I2C working, since there is a kernel module for that as > well. > > In sho

Re: [Owfs-developers] 2.6 kernels and OWFS

2007-08-01 Thread Paul Alfille
I haven't talked with Evgeniy recently, but did correspond extensively in the past. The W1 module polls the DS9490R at (I think) 1 second intervals to update the temperature readings. Unfortunately it steals the entire 1-wire bus. There were several solutions: 1. Remove DS9490R (rmmod ds9490r). Y

Re: [Owfs-developers] 2.6 kernels and OWFS

2007-08-01 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2007 08:21 schrieb Matthias Urlichs: > > The simple solution is to blacklist the module (and/or unload it before > starting owserver) -- and ask your distro not to compile that module by > default. I have no idea if anybody uses it; it doesn't even support > hubs. > Well, fro