Re: Re: Simat 1 wire Hubs

["Frank Mc Alinden" <frankmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark / Jon

> Sort of - as I understand it, it does a startup scan to detect new
> devices and adds them to the database of connected devices. It will
> then scan for devices in the database so if a device has been
> connected at any startup it should then be scanned for. However, I
> think the new hub code breaks this in that the hub branch number is
> remembered at startup and the devices are only searched for on that
> branch.

That appears to be the case from my observations as well....

> Nice to see some 1-wire discussion here, I'm just getting into it and
> going through the opnode sorce code has helped a lot but it's good to
> hear of other ways of doing things.

Keep us posted on your progress

Frank





----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Marsh" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:42 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Simat 1 wire Hubs


> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Jon Payne <jgpayne@...> wrote:
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>> Does the opnode periodically scan for new devices/new branches or
> does it do a one off scan to determine which devices and branches
> are present?
>
> Sort of - as I understand it, it does a startup scan to detect new
> devices and adds them to the database of connected devices. It will
> then scan for devices in the database so if a device has been
> connected at any startup it should then be scanned for. However, I
> think the new hub code breaks this in that the hub branch number is
> remembered at startup and the devices are only searched for on that
> branch.
>
> It might work using the main trunk - I'd test it but I'm running some
> altered code at the moment and it's a pain to restart - shouldn't be
> too difficult to try though.
>
> Nice to see some 1-wire discussion here, I'm just getting into it and
> going through the opnode sorce code has helped a lot but it's good to
> hear of other ways of doing things.
>
> Mark
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