1-wire, long runs and owfs

My 1-wire MicroLAN has a long run using BT cable (the stuff that comes into your house from the pole outside) it's not the most capable and CAT5 is better if you can use it, but mine runs through my flowerbeds into my greehouse, so it needed to be semi-amoured.

Long runs need slightly different 1-wire slew rates or you get lots of errors and devices drop off your LAN :(




Maxim Application Note 148 states:



Testing with long and short bus lines has shown that the optimum timings for all networks are as follows:

Pulldown Slew Rate: 1.37V/μs
Write One Low Time: 11μs
Data Sample Offset/Recovery: 10μs

So with owfs how do you do that with your Maxim USB dongle...?



Well the documentation isn't as extensive as you would like for things like this and the forums are quite cryptic. So i looked in the code on sourceforge link and found the code which changes the values.


So where you would start owfs with -u or --usb, try this;



--usb --altUSB --usb_flextime



This will give you a;

Pulldown Slew Rate: 1.37V/μs
Write One Low Time: 10μs
Data Sample Offset/Recovery: 8μs
 somewhat better than the default the dongle starts up with;

Pulldown Slew Rate: 0.83V/μs
Write One Low Time: 12μs
Data Sample Offset/Recovery: 7μs

 You can check your settings by doing;

# grep "" /var/1wire/bus.0/interface/settings/usb/*
/var/1wire/bus.0/interface/settings/usb/datasampleoffset:           8
/var/1wire/bus.0/interface/settings/usb/pulldownslewrate:           3
/var/1wire/bus.0/interface/settings/usb/writeonelowtime:          10

and check your errors by;

# grep -v " 0" /var/1wire/bus.0/interface/statistics/*err*
/var/1wire/bus.0/interface/statistics/errors:         515
/var/1wire/bus.0/interface/statistics/reset_errors:           1
/var/1wire/bus.0/interface/statistics/select_errors:         566

I  might graph mine in rrdtool to keep an eye on them.