have some 1-wire now what?

[mustangcoupe]

For Christmas my wife bought me the Master Hub, a temp sensor, and a moisture sensor. Using a serial to USB converter I can not get the hardware to do anything... can anyone give me recomendations on trial software (windows) and/or a way to communicate with the system to confirm everything is working so I can get on my way with 1-wire... I tried a terminal program, but I dont know speed/hardware settings (besides the com port)

Yes I did plug the master hub into 12 VDC.

TIA,

 

[project_x]

For Christmas my wife bought me the Master Hub, a temp sensor, and a moisture sensor. Using a serial to USB converter I can not get the hardware to do anything... can anyone give me recomendations on trial software (windows) and/or a way to communicate with the system to confirm everything is working so I can get on my way with 1-wire... I tried a terminal program, but I dont know speed/hardware settings (besides the com port)

Yes I did plug the master hub into 12 VDC.

TIA,

I found the easiest one to use out of the "box" is logtemp. Works under windows, handles the hub with no issues,...and best of all its free : )

 

[sda]

For Christmas my wife bought me the Master Hub, a temp sensor, and a moisture sensor.

I got tighty whiteys.

Using a serial to USB converter I can not get the hardware to do anything...

It sounds like you're connecting a USB-serial thingy to a USB port on your PC and connecting the master hub serial cable to the thingy? If so, then its not surprising it doesn't work. I'd guess the USB-serial converter interferes with the data or the timing and maybe the visibilty of the hub to the 1-wire drivers. You did install the 1-wire drivers, didn't you? If I had a master hub or serial 1-wire adapter, I'd test that configuration to see if it works just out of curiosity, but I only have USB 1-wire adapters and haven't had any problems with them.

If its not that, then tell us what hardware you're working with.

can anyone give me recomendations on trial software (windows) and/or a way to communicate with the system to confirm everything is working so I can get on my way with 1-wire...

Start here for drivers and a simple online interface
http://www.maxim-ic.com/products/ibutton/s...eWireViewer.cfm

I tried a terminal program, but I dont know speed/hardware settings (besides the com port)

Again, not surprising. One wire data isn't ASCII characters that you can make sense of with a terminal program.

 

[Lagerhead]

For Christmas my wife bought me the Master Hub, a temp sensor, and a moisture sensor.

Does she have a sister. Send photos.

Appreciate the 1-wire discussion as I have a feeling that 1-wire is in my future.

 

[mustangcoupe]

You did install the 1-wire drivers, didn't you?

:blink: OOPS... Guess I was in too much of a hurry...

Start here for drivers and a simple online interface
http://www.maxim-ic.com/products/ibutton/s...eWireViewer.cfm

Thanks that helped...

I can now see the hub (I beleive) I have 3 DS2409's showing up in the JAVA viewer, but no sensors

 

[project_x]

You did install the 1-wire drivers, didn't you?

:blink: OOPS... Guess I was in too much of a hurry...

Start here for drivers and a simple online interface
http://www.maxim-ic.com/products/ibutton/s...eWireViewer.cfm

Thanks that helped...

I can now see the hub (I beleive) I have 3 DS2409's showing up in the JAVA viewer, but no sensors

now switch the DS2409s, and you should see the sensor on the chain

 

[Macca]

I second LogTemp - works very well reading/graphing a range of 1-wire sensors. Easily found via Google. I think Digitemp can also utilise 1-wire temp sensors?

I must admit - I'd love to find some Windows software that would allow easy control of the 1-wire relay board, so I could set up simple logic such as if X temp is reached activate Y circuit...would be very handy. Unfortunately I am good with hardware - avergae with software!! If anyone knows of anything like that - please let me know!

Good luck....
Andrew

For Christmas my wife bought me the Master Hub, a temp sensor, and a moisture sensor. Using a serial to USB converter I can not get the hardware to do anything... can anyone give me recomendations on trial software (windows) and/or a way to communicate with the system to confirm everything is working so I can get on my way with 1-wire... I tried a terminal program, but I dont know speed/hardware settings (besides the com port)

Yes I did plug the master hub into 12 VDC.

TIA,

I found the easiest one to use out of the "box" is logtemp. Works under windows, handles the hub with no issues,...and best of all its free : )

 

[darryl]

Apparently logtemp can control 1-wire switches so should be able to control hobby boards relay board based on temperature alarms.

If you are adventurous owserver can run on windows via cygwin. If you setup cygwin and owserver you can script whatever you want in python or perl.

If those are all greek to you then I would pursue logtemp :blink:

 

[mustangcoupe]

You did install the 1-wire drivers, didn't you?

:blink: OOPS... Guess I was in too much of a hurry...

Start here for drivers and a simple online interface
http://www.maxim-ic.com/products/ibutton/s...eWireViewer.cfm

Thanks that helped...

I can now see the hub (I beleive) I have 3 DS2409's showing up in the JAVA viewer, but no sensors

now switch the DS2409s, and you should see the sensor on the chain

what do you mean when you say switch?

 

[project_x]

You did install the 1-wire drivers, didn't you?

:blink: OOPS... Guess I was in too much of a hurry...

Start here for drivers and a simple online interface
http://www.maxim-ic.com/products/ibutton/s...eWireViewer.cfm

Thanks that helped...

I can now see the hub (I beleive) I have 3 DS2409's showing up in the JAVA viewer, but no sensors

now switch the DS2409s, and you should see the sensor on the chain

what do you mean when you say switch?

If you go in into each of the 2409s in maxim interface,and toggle their state.

Logtemp will cycle through the 2409s if you specifiy them in the setup