OWFS 1-Wire File System

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OWFS is an easy way to use the powerful 1-wire system of Dallas/Maxim.

OWFS is a simple and flexible program to monitor and control the physical environment. You can write scripts to read temperature, flash lights, write to an LCD, log and graph, ...


1-Wire

Files:

  • Inexpensive devices, simple wiring, parasitic power
  • Unique addresses, individually addressable
  • USB, serial and i2c adapters
  • Mature technology, consulting and aftermarket support
  • iButton steel sealed devices
  • New fancy 3rd-party designs

  • Temperature, thermocouples
  • Humidity, LCD, pressure, counters
  • Memory, encryption
  • Voltage, current, logic
  • Switches
  • Weather (wind, humidity, UV, temperature).

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OWFS

  • Filesystem access ( i.e. 10.001122334/temperature ) (owfs)
  • Web access (owhttpd)
  • Remote network access (owserver)
  • Direct language support for perl, python, php, tcl, Java, C (libow, ownet)
  • Embedded appliances: Linksys router, NSLU2, FOX
  • Bootable CD
  • Supported on i386, MIPS, ARM, Coldfire, Linux, OSX, Windows (Cygwin), FreeBSD
  • FREE, under the GPLv2 license
 

  


 

Uses

  • FUN, hobby projects, neat hacks
  • Home automation
  • Environmental monitoringl
  • Security


 



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