Open JesFo opened 1 year ago
No, it's not abandoned, it's only it's stable and suit my usage, so don't have any forecasted update. What is your need about the chain ? Because, nobody seems having usage if this feature (checked on OWS mailing list and some hobbyists' forum).
I just happen to have a use for the chain feature. I have over 120 sensors on a single bus, and currently i have to assemble my ID table manually by testing each sensor individually.
Ha, ok. I don't have spare DS28EA00 but will command some new ones. But it will take time as I have a lot of things to do. Alternatively, you may implement on your side and I'll merge your changes.
On the other way, 120 probes on a single GPIO ? Do you use any driver ? Because it looks like a large network for a GPIO : my own network has about 40 probes spread on 70m bus, and I'm using an DS2482-100 / 800 to avoid bus electrical issue. The head is a Linux SBC by the way
So far I haven't yet implemented a full DS28EA00 version of the hardware. However, I am currently using 128-DS18B20 devices over a single OneWire bus without any problems.
The chain feature is what prompted me to switch over to DS28EA00 from DS18B20, as for the 128-piece DS18B20, I had to assemble a sort of "programming jig" to read each device ID by powering them individually through a probing pad on the bottom side of my temperature sensor PCB. This however also needs a diode for each sensor to prevent the jig from powering the whole chain through the test-pads. So far, I've been trying to figure out the DS28EA00 chain feature on a smaller scale of 10-sensors on a single bus, before comitting to replacing all the 128-DS18B20 sensors I currently have on the bus.
I first prototyped the system on a STM32-Nucleo devkit, before porting it to an ESP32 devkit with POE, which surprisingly is sufficient at powering the whole array of 128-DS18B20 sensors.
Hello,
Some (bad news) update : I got only one EA00 left so not enough to test CHAIN : the price is a bit high and, more than all, I don't have the time to test.
Anyway, it doesn't seem so difficult to implement : in class DS28EA00
(/src/OWBus/DS28EA00.h), following function need to be implemented :
CHAIN
then CHAIN_ON
then ~CHAIN_ON
- it will put the 1st EA00 is chain mode.CHAIN
then CHAIN_DONE
then ~CHAIN_DONE
and loop to step2 to get next address.CHAIN
then CHAIN_OFF
then ~CHAIN_OFF
to return to normal mode.If you patch the library, don't hesitate to issue a patch request :)
If this library isn't abandoned yet? Could support be added for DS28EA00 chain-function?