Re: Re: Tell me about 1-wire...

[Kyle Gordon <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another option is cheap USB to Serial adaptors, but push the USB
component over IP to the destination machine with
http://usbip.sourceforge.net/

Thoughts on that option? I'm considering giving is a shot in the very
near future with some usb webcams or relay boards.

Kyle

On 02/12/10 11:04, Paul Gale wrote:
> Serial ports dying isn't good :(
>
> Yes, I had been thinking about moving to RS232 over Ethernet - seems a
much more attractive solution - shame it all adds up to a lot of cash
though for a number of devices.
>
> Paul.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul
Gordon
> Sent: 02 December 2010 10:59
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Tell me about 1-wire...
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> I'll have a look tonight when I get home... - I can't remember any of
the details about it just now... I do remember I got it from eBay
though....
>
> The other thing I've noticed is that on my HA server (now a VM), the
virtual serial port drivers do occasionally "die" and the machine
completely loses contact with all its virtual serial ports... I don't
recall that being the case immediately after installation on a
"clean" XP build, - I definitely think it started happening some
time after I'd been using it without problems for a while, so the
likelihood is that some Windows update or other introduced an
instability... I've got round it by scheduling an automated reboot of the
VM every night at 04:00 which seems to keep it running pretty sweet. Very
occasionally, (and it really is quite rare nowadays), the drivers will
still die during the day, and only a reboot will fix it, but that only
seems to happen once in a blue moon....
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> As a matter of policy I'm therefore trying to get as much as possible
of the
> RS232 kit attached to the HA Server transferred over to a TCPIP
connection wherever possible, so I've bought Comfort UCM_ETH daughterboards
for the 2 UCMs currently connected via RS232, and as mentioned, I'll be
seeking a replacement for the Quasar temperature boards as well...
>
> Paul G.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul
Gale
> Sent: 02 December 2010 10:09
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Tell me about 1-wire...
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> Paul,
>
> Interested in your Ethernet-RS232 server box - what did you get?
>
> I'm running all my servers on VMWare vCenter and thinking of moving my
HA Server over too - but the 12 serial ports are currently a sticking
point.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul
Gordon
> Sent: 02 December 2010 10:00
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Tell me about 1-wire...
>
> Can you tell me a little more about this item? - it's just reminded me
that I do need to do something about my temperature sensing solution... - I
previously used a couple of Quasar boards to support up to 8 DS1820s, but
they rely on RS232 port power... - when I virtualised my HA server I
implemented an Ethernet-RS232 server box to provide up to 8 serial ports
via the LAN... but the serial ports presented by that box don't have (or
don't have enough) power to run the Quasar boards, so I haven't had any
temperature sensing going on since I virtualised... I've been meaning to do
something about that for a fair while...
>
> So, I already have a bunch of the 1-wire temp sensors kicking
around... I'd like to get them back into use... I need a solution that I
can implement pretty much out of the box... - if I haven't had time to even
think about this for nigh on a year, you can be sure I don't have time to
be soldering up my own boards and/or rolling my own code!
>
> I want the solution to integrate with Homeseer...
>
> I *need* the solution to NOT be dependent on serial ports to provide
power!
>
> I suppose one thing I could try to think about would be to modify the
Quasar boards to run on power from a separate wall-wart, - but see my
earlier comment about soldering!
>
> Anyone got any thoughts / suggestions?
>
> TIA
>
> Paul G.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stuart
Poulton
> Sent: 01 December 2010 19:28
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Tell me about 1-wire...
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I've contacted a couple of people who expressed an interest in
PCB's&  connectors for 1-wire temp sensors.
>
> Pictures from Kevin here: http://bit.ly/c5Rkxj
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> If anyone else is interested, please get in touch off list, I'd like
to get a parts order sent off in the next few days to get parts shipped out
in time for tinkering over the xmas holidays.
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> Cheers
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> Stuart
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