Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Eloy Paris
On 10/18/2012 10:23 AM, Colin Law wrote: > I saw that Cat5e ethernet cable is good for 1-wire so I bought 50m of > cable from an amazon shop [1]. When the cable arrived the cable outer > has printed on it PLUSCOM Cat5e UTP 4Pairs 24AWG Patch Cable. It does > not contain 4 twisted pairs, which I

[Owfs-developers] owfs php example

2012-10-18 Thread Willy Verbiest
Hi, I'm trying to run an example in php to list the 1-wire sensors in my network. I've compiled and build the owfs suite Version 2.8p20 Now owfs is running owserver is running owhttpd is running on http://localhost:2121/ I can see my sensors and there actual values. I've followed the documentat

Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Roberto Spadim
this guys have very good cables too: http://www.mohawk-cable.com/copper-lan-cables/gigalan-10-utp.html -- Roberto Spadim Spadim Technology / SPAEmpresarial -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps fas

Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Roberto Spadim
humm, well i think you need a shielded cable only a twisted pair with shield is all you need awg 26 is very big and allow a low voltage decay (cat7 specs) if you want send power, two twisted pair do the job... the point is impedance, there's many docs in maxim about what cable to use, see that they

Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 October 2012 21:20, Roberto Spadim wrote: > "difficult application"?! Sorry, not good choice of words. I meant, for example, a long run in an electrically noisy environment. Colin -- Everyone hates slow websites.

Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Roberto Spadim
you can use telephone 1 twisted pair, and it will work... cat-6 have a lower impedance, greater physical structure and is suitable for any ow application (including ethernet converters applications) if you need more protection use a stp cable (with shield) if you want a good product (not fake one

Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Roberto Spadim
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Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Gregg Levine
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Colin Law wrote: > On 18 October 2012 15:28, Markus Gaugusch wrote: >> Hi Colin! >> >> On the image on your link, the wires are twisted ... but you say they are >> not. Can you send us another image of your cable? > > I have posted a picture but it needs moderator

Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 October 2012 18:53, Roberto Spadim wrote: > buy cat-6 and be happy It is pointless to spend more money than necessary when cat6 is not necessary. Also what is the likelyhood that cat6 cable will actually be made to cat6 spec? Colin > > 2012/10/18 Colin Law : >> On 18 October 2012 15:28,

Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 October 2012 18:36, Attila wrote: > No, it is not an UTP cable. UTP=Unshielded Twisted Pair. > > Differernt categories describes how many twists has to be done in a length > as well. > > This is NOT a CAT5e UTP cable. Thanks, that is what I thought. Does that mean that all Pluscom cat5e av

Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 October 2012 15:28, Markus Gaugusch wrote: > Hi Colin! > > On the image on your link, the wires are twisted ... but you say they are > not. Can you send us another image of your cable? I have posted a picture but it needs moderator approval before it will appear. Colin > > br, > Markus >

Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 October 2012 18:45, Attila wrote: > > If we are talking about cables - how you use UTP cable? Let me explain Please don't hijack a thread. If you want to ask a question about using the cable then please start a new one. Otherwise this thread will get confused by talking about multiple iss

Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Doug Warner
On 10/18/2012 10:58 AM, Colin Law wrote: > On 18 October 2012 15:28, Markus Gaugusch wrote: >> Hi Colin! >> >> On the image on your link, the wires are twisted ... but you say they are >> not. Can you send us another image of your cable? > > Will the list allow attachements? If it will then here

Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Ryan Nichols
Yes, the pairs should be twisted together.. orange and orange/white, etc.. On Oct 18, 2012 9:24 AM, "Colin Law" wrote: > I saw that Cat5e ethernet cable is good for 1-wire so I bought 50m of > cable from an amazon shop [1]. When the cable arrived the cable outer > has printed on it PLUSCOM Cat5e

Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Roberto Spadim
buy cat-6 and be happy 2012/10/18 Colin Law : > On 18 October 2012 15:28, Markus Gaugusch wrote: >> Hi Colin! >> >> On the image on your link, the wires are twisted ... but you say they are >> not. Can you send us another image of your cable? > > Will the list allow attachements? If it will then

Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Nathan Hurst
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 07:45:44PM +0200, Attila wrote: > If we are talking about cables - how you use UTP cable? Let me explain > > THere are 3 wires has to be used (or two in parasite mode- but in this case > it is not a question :) - what you use as a "stand alon" wire? > In my current install

Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Attila
If we are talking about cables - how you use UTP cable? Let me explain THere are 3 wires has to be used (or two in parasite mode- but in this case it is not a question :) - what you use as a "stand alon" wire? In my current installation I use a twisted pair for GND and Data, and use a separate fo

Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Paul Alfille
According to wikipedia, there should be a (gentle) twist rate for each pair: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_5e#Category_5e Individual twist lengths By altering the length of each twist, crosstalkis reduced, without affecting the characterist

Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Attila
No, it is not an UTP cable. UTP=Unshielded Twisted Pair. Differernt categories describes how many twists has to be done in a length as well. This is NOT a CAT5e UTP cable. On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Colin Law wrote: > On 18 October 2012 15:28, Markus Gaugusch wrote: > > Hi Colin! > > >

Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Ákos Gábriel
8 separate wires, twisted in pairs. E. g. blue with blue/white. Akos 2012.10.18. dátummal, 16:23 időpontban Colin Law írta: > I saw that Cat5e ethernet cable is good for 1-wire so I bought 50m of > cable from an amazon shop [1]. When the cable arrived the cable outer > has printed on it PLUSCOM

Re: [Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Markus Gaugusch
Hi Colin! On the image on your link, the wires are twisted ... but you say they are not. Can you send us another image of your cable? br, Markus On Oct 18, Colin Law wrote: > I saw that Cat5e ethernet cable is good for 1-wire so I bought 50m of > cable from an amazon shop [1]. When the cable

[Owfs-developers] Cat5e cable - fake?

2012-10-18 Thread Colin Law
I saw that Cat5e ethernet cable is good for 1-wire so I bought 50m of cable from an amazon shop [1]. When the cable arrived the cable outer has printed on it PLUSCOM Cat5e UTP 4Pairs 24AWG Patch Cable. It does not contain 4 twisted pairs, which I believe it should, but 8 separate wires. Am I cor

Re: [Owfs-developers] owfs on Raspi running Raspian wheezy

2012-10-18 Thread Martin Patzak (GMX)
Hello Raspberians, finally the raspi is working absolutely rock solid stable with LinkUSB and on latest wheezy libraries and firmware! The situation: Once in a while the raspi pi showed Errors in log: smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0: eth0: Failed to read register index 0x0114 (hours to days, that did dep

Re: [Owfs-developers] OWPython

2012-10-18 Thread Marcus Priesch
Hello Attila, you could also try http://priesch.co.at/pyowfs with it it should be possible to get any entry in the owfs tree ... interesting though that the 8bit value gets calculated differently ... i also fiddled around with the ds2450 some day and found out that anything below 8bit is jus