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owdir -s [host:]port [directory]
owread -s [host:]port filepath
owwrite -s [host:]port filepath value
owget -s [host:]port [directory] | filepath

owdir --autoserver [directory]
owread --autoserver filepath
owwrite --autoserver filepath value
owget --autoserver [directory] | filepath

owdir -q --quiet -f --format f[.]i[[.]c] ] [ --dir ] -s [host:]port [directory] [directory2 ...]

owread -q --quiet -C --celsius -K --kelvin -F --fahrenheit -R --rankine [ --hex ] [ --start= offset ] [ --size= bytes ] -s [host:]port filepath [filepath2 ...]

owwrite -q --quiet -C --celsius -K --kelvin -F --fahrenheit -R --rankine [ --hex ] [ --start= offset ] -s [host:]port filepath value [filepath2 value2 ...]

owget -q --quiet -f --format f[.]i[[.]c] -C --celsius -K --kelvin -F --fahrenheit -R --rankine [ --hex ] [ --start= offset ] [ --size= bytes ] [ --dir ] -s [host:]port [directory] | filepath

owdir -V --version
owread -V --version
owwrite -V --version
owget -V --version

owdir -h | --help
owread -h | --help
owwrite -h | --help
owget -h | --help

1-wire is a wiring protocol and series of devices designed and manufactured by Dallas Semiconductor, Inc. The bus is a low-power low-speed low-connector scheme where the data line can also provide power.

Each device is uniquely and unalterably numbered during manufacture. There are a wide variety of devices, including memory, sensors (humidity, temperature, voltage, contact, current), switches, timers and data loggers. More complex devices (like thermocouple sensors) can be built with these basic devices. There are also 1-wire devices that have encryption included.

The 1-wire scheme uses a single bus master and multiple slaves on the same wire. The bus master initiates all communication. The slaves can be  individually discovered and addressed using their unique Id.

Bus masters come in a variety of configurations including serial, parallel, i2c, network or USB adapters.

OWFS is a suite of programs that designed to make the 1-wire bus and its devices easily accessible. The underlying principle is to create a virtual filesystem, with the unique Id being the directory, and the individual properties of the device are represented as simple files that can be read and written.

Details of the individual slave or master design are hidden behind a consistent interface. The goal is to  provide an easy set of tools for a software designer to create monitoring or control applications. There  are some performance enhancements in the implementation, including data caching, parallel access to bus  masters, and aggregation of device communication. Still the fundamental goal has been ease of use, flexibility and correctness rather than speed.

owdir owread owwrite and owget are collectively called the owshell programs. They allow lightweight access to an owserver (1) for use in command line scripts.

Unlike owserver (1) owhttpd (1) owftpd (1) owhttpd (1) there is not persistent connection with the 1-wire bus, no caching and no multithreading. Instead, each program connects to a running owserver (1) and performs a quick set of queries.

owserver (1) performs the actual 1-wire connection (to physical 1-wire buses or other owserver programs), performs concurrency locking, caching, and error collection.

owshell programs are intended for use in command line scripts. An alternative approach is to mount an owfs (1) filesystem and perform direct file lists, reads and writes.

owdir performs a directory listing. With no argument, all the devices on the main 1-wire bus will be listed. Given the name of a 1-wire device, the available properties will be listed. It is the equivalent of

ls directory

in the owfs (1) filesystem.

owread obtains for value of a 1-wire device property. e.g. 28.0080BE21AA00/temperature gives the DS18B20 temperature. It is the equivalent of

cat filepath

in the owfs (1) filesystem.

owwrite performs a change of a property, changing a 1-wire device setting or writing to memory. It is the equivalent of

echo value > filepath

in the owfs (1) filesystem.

owget (1) is a convenience program, combining the function of owdir (1) and owread (1) by first trying to read the argument as a directory, and if that fails as a 1-wire property.

Find an owserver using the Service Discovery protocol. Essentially Apple's Bonjour (aka zeroconf). Only the first owserver will be used, and that choice is probably arbitrary.

Connect via tcp (network) to an owserver process that is connected to a physical 1-wire bus. This allows multiple processes to share the same bus. The owserver process can be local or remote.

If the server option is not specified, the default is the local machine and the IANA allocated default port of 4304. Thus "-s localhost:4304" is the equivalent.

Shows (this) basic summary of options.

Version of this program.

Modify the display of directories to indicate which entries are also directories. A directory member will have a trailing '/' if it is a directory itself. This aids recursive searches.

Display format for the 1-wire devices. Each device has a 8 byte address, consisting of:

f

family code, 1 byte

i

Id number, 6 bytes

c

CRC checksum, 1 byte

Possible formats are f.i (default, 01.A1B2C3D4E5F6), fi fic f.ic f.i.c and fi.c

All formats are accepted as input, but the output will be in the specified format.

owfs (1) owhttpd (1) owftpd (1) owserver (1) owdir (1) owread (1) owwrite (1) owpresent (1) owtap (1)

owfs (5) owtap (1) owmon (1)

owtcl (3) owperl (3) owcapi (3)

DS1427 (3) DS1904(3) DS1994 (3) DS2404 (3) DS2404S (3) DS2415 (3) DS2417 (3)

DS2401 (3) DS2411 (3) DS1990A (3)

DS1982 (3) DS1985 (3) DS1986 (3) DS1991 (3) DS1992 (3) DS1993 (3) DS1995 (3) DS1996 (3) DS2430A (3) DS2431 (3) DS2433 (3) DS2502 (3) DS2506 (3) DS28E04 (3) DS28EC20 (3)

DS2405 (3) DS2406 (3) DS2408 (3) DS2409 (3) DS2413 (3) DS28EA00 (3)

DS1822 (3) DS1825 (3) DS1820 (3) DS18B20 (3) DS18S20 (3) DS1920 (3) DS1921 (3) DS1821 (3) DS28EA00 (3) DS28E04 (3)

DS1922 (3)

DS2450 (3)

DS2890 (3)

DS2436 (3) DS2437 (3) DS2438 (3) DS2751 (3) DS2755 (3) DS2756 (3) DS2760 (3) DS2770 (3) DS2780 (3) DS2781 (3) DS2788 (3) DS2784 (3)

DS2423 (3)

LCD (3) DS2408 (3)

DS1977 (3)

DS2406 (3) -- TAI8570