OWFS 1-Wire Filesystem for LinuxForum: myDSL Extensions (deprecated) Topic: OWFS 1-Wire Filesystem for Linux started by: alfille Posted by alfille on Aug. 31 2005,00:17
Announcing owfs.uci< OWFS > is the 1-wire filesystem (for Linux). 1-wire is a system of cheap chips and stainless-encased < (iButton) > devices with a very simple communication protocol. It is featured at the < Dallas/Maxim > website. The types of devices include temperature, voltage, humidity, current and contact sensors, switches and variable resistance elements, LCD controllers, memory, encryption, timers, etc. Every device has a unique 64bit address and so can be separately addressed. The whole system looks like a virtual filesystem under OWFS. You can read the temperature just by reading a file. Great for monitoring and automation. owfs.uci loads under /opt and uses minimal resources. Both USB and serial adapters are supported. There is a small webserver included as an alternative way to scan the sensors. |