Re: [mh] Interfacing with owfs from misterhouse?

[Marc M. <ma...@me...>]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 07:05:01AM -0500, Gregg Liming wrote:
> The purpose of using xAP is that it is the protocol that communicates 
> information obtained through OWFS through a *separate* process.  That 
> separate process is called oxc.  The reason for this is that oxc absorbs 
> the burden of being blocked while polling/reading longer reacting 
> sensors.  Now, your one-wire environment may be plenty zippy fast, or 
(...)

Ah, got it.

In my case, I have a separate cronjob that already gets the temps from owfs,
so the cache will be filled and ready when mh polls it.

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 07:20:52AM -0500, Gregg Liming wrote:
> Gregg Liming wrote:
> > Just so you know... I use a 
> > dedicated hardware appliance that talks xAP; so, I haven't oxc for quite 
> > a long time.
> 
> And, if I were starting to look for a solution today, I'd be more 
> inclined to look at Mark Hindess' xPL Perl 
> (http://wiki.binkey.nl/index.php/XPL-perl) as it seems to offer 
> more/better support for owfs than oxc.

I see. Thanks for the info.

Marc
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