RE: [misterhouse-users] iButtons and MH under XP

[Bruce W. <br...@mi...>]

I recently had problems reading iButtons when setting up a friends box, due
to the goofy serial card that he had.   I found, however, that the digitemp
software from http://www.digitemp.com worked ok with all his tempurature
ibuttons, so I wrote the attached code to simply use that software and
bypass the mh perl iButton software.   I'll include this as
public/iButton_temps.pl in the next release.

Bruce

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# Category = iButtons

#@ Use digitemp to read ibuttons, when the built in mh perl code has
problems reading ibutton temps.
#@ Download linux or windows digitemp from: http://www.digitemp.com

$v_iButton_readtemps = new Voice_Cmd "Read the iButton temperature buttons";
$v_iButton_readtemps-> set_info('This reads all all iButton temperature
devices.');
$ibutton_read = new Process_Item('digitemp.exe -c/bin/digitemp.cfg -a');

if (new_minute 1 or said $v_iButton_readtemps) {
    set_output $ibutton_read '/misterhouse/data/ibutton.data';
    start $ibutton_read;
}

# Data looks like this:  Feb 28 22:44:16 Sensor 0 C: 3.01 F: 37.42

if (done_now $ibutton_read) {
    for my $data (file_read '/misterhouse/data/ibutton.data') {
	next unless $data =~ /Sensor (\d+) C: (\S+) F: (\S+)/;
	next if $3 > 180; # False readings look like 185
	print "ibutton sensor==$1 temp=$3\n";
	$Weather{"TempSpare$1"} = $3;
    }
}

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-----Original Message-----

Curently running MH on a Win 98SE box and would like to upgrade to XP.
Problem is I cannot get the iButtons to cooperate.

Under XP I can use MH to connect and disconnect from the iButton network as
well as correctly list all the devices on the ibutton network (which
confirms connectivity) which consist of Temperature sensors.

But when I try to read the sensors all I get is 0.00 data sent back.

I'm confused!  Anyone have any ideas on this?  Thanks in advance!

Peter