Re: [Owfs-developers] iButton - n00b question

2015-02-15 Thread Jan Kandziora
Am 15.02.2015 um 21:48 schrieb Colin Reese: > Yes just run a micro controller non-stop and have it announce presence over a > serial port. > No, USB. I made a simple software for doing this on a random ATtiny processor with the help of the V-USB firmware. http://vusb.wikidot.com/project:vusb K

Re: [Owfs-developers] Problems with DS2413

2015-02-15 Thread Paul Alfille
Very strange. The devices you see look like /sys entries from the operating system. Nothing that owfs would generate. What you should see is: home/paul/1w/3A.F2FBE3467CC2/ ├── address ├── alias ├── crc8 ├── family ├── id ├── locator ├── PIO.A ├── PIO.ALL ├── PIO.B ├── PIO.BYTE ├── r_address ├── r_

Re: [Owfs-developers] iButton - n00b question

2015-02-15 Thread Colin Reese
And that's easy to do. I database everything immediately including device type and other metadata and separate control scripts act on data, including device presence. If time response is important, you can insert the response functions into the detect script as well. Read devices, check agains

Re: [Owfs-developers] iButton - n00b question

2015-02-15 Thread Daniel MacKay
I wasn't sure what Daniel wanted. Well, I was hoping that someone would say, "Well, when your application initializes, you register Subroutine X to be run as soon as something new appears on the bus." And then, when that sub gets called, you check the serial number of the new thing, if it matc

Re: [Owfs-developers] iButton - n00b question

2015-02-15 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! I wasn't sure what Daniel wanted. The more complicated explanation. Or the overly simplified one. Or one that left our friend even more confused. The one presented is largely based on an explanation given to me by one of the folks at Dallas Semiconductor shortly after the whole business got

Re: [Owfs-developers] iButton - n00b question

2015-02-15 Thread Colin Reese
Yes just run a micro controller non-stop and have it announce presence over a serial port. C > On Feb 15, 2015, at 12:37 PM, Paul Alfille wrote: > > Wouldn't once per second be enough? > > You can also partition the problem -- set up a separate 1-wire bus just for > the polling -- wouldn'

Re: [Owfs-developers] iButton - n00b question

2015-02-15 Thread Paul Alfille
Wouldn't once per second be enough? You can also partition the problem -- set up a separate 1-wire bus just for the polling -- wouldn't be interfering with your sensors. Also these days, just have a Raspberry Pi or something like that do the polling and 1-wire work and use your main CPU for data c

Re: [Owfs-developers] iButton - n00b question

2015-02-15 Thread Daniel MacKay
Paul: > Periodic polling is the best way. So are you saying that if I have an iButton base on my network, I have to be constantly running through a 1-Wire directory search and looking for the button? So if I wanted to use this to open a door, and wanted reasonable response time I’d have to be

Re: [Owfs-developers] iButton - n00b question

2015-02-15 Thread Paul Alfille
Hi Daniel, Gregg answered the more general philosophy of 1-wire architecture. Let me address your questions narrowly. All the 1-wire chips (well, almost all except the DS1821) have a unique ID that can be queried by the 1-wire "discovery" protocol. When you ask for a "directory listing" in OWFS i

Re: [Owfs-developers] iButton - n00b question

2015-02-15 Thread Gregg Levine
Hello! A good question. One I've asked myself countless times, before Paul wrote his excellent tool set and realized there was a better way to manage certain storage methods. Let's say you own an iButton of the type who contains a DS2401 electronic serial number. Inserting it into the reader will

[Owfs-developers] iButton - n00b question

2015-02-15 Thread Daniel MacKay
OK, I'm going to come across as really stunned here, but if I don't ask, I won't learn. I am accustomed to having devices -- mostly temperature sensors -- on my 1W bus, getting a catalog of them by hand, and then entering the serial numbers into a configuration file in my sofware, which then qu

Re: [Owfs-developers] Problems with DS2413

2015-02-15 Thread Sven
Hi Paul, sorry for the delay. Yes my device has family code 3A. These are my devices: cd /sys/bus/w1/devices/ pi@hauspi /sys/bus/w1/devices $ ls -l insgesamt 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 12 20:18 28-061549ec -> ../../../devices/w1_bus_master1/28-061549ec lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 1