Very nice Christopher! Thank-you.
It will work just fine and is easier than running additional cron jobs / perl script on the RPi2 running Homeseer 3. Rob's script does that with an externally connected USB 1-Wire hub.
Many folks are just learning what they can do with the GPIO ports on the RPi2 utilizing Homeseer 3. Many do not tinker much with the RPi2 hardware and just utilize HS3 with external USB devices.
Yeah here initially it was an experiment on the Zee-2 using an external USB connected 1-Wire hub and posting the one minute sensors stuff to a text file.
My Zee-2 in the attic has the RTC PiFace clock and GPIO Z-Wave Plus card in it and it has been running in the attic with Homeseer 3 just fine.
I connected a tiny USB hub on it with 2-temperature and 1 humidly sensor to the hub.
The stacked RTC shim and GPIO board made it difficult to tinker with the GPIO pins on the device.
Later on played with doing some bit banging using a DS1307 RTC on my little OpenWRT 2" X 2" microrouter. I really am amazed what the tiny device can do.
I know here I am venturing a bit to a tangent and this doesn't relate directly to the RPi2 but in fact was a learning tool for me relating to the RPi2.
I didn't know until I read some about it that I could connect / solder on one 1-Wire temperature sensor on the tiny rtc board. See the image here. The three pins on the top right are for one 1-wire sensor and no pull up resistors are needed.
The traces though are backwards so you have to install the 1-Wire maxim temperature sensor in reverse. (kind of a gotcha flaw in the design of the board tracings). It should have been labeled with pin #'s simply 1,2 and 3.
Well too they put a charging circuit on the board for a rechargeable lithium battery. Pictured is the correct battery.
Bad thing is that it is mostly sold with a non rechargeable lithium battery that could maybe explode?
Wondering now if folks are putting these in their RPi's and wondering why they are exploding (I haven't hear of any doing this yet).
I did that and it worked and is working on 2 micro routers with a 400Mhz CPU and hardly any play space (RAM) to speak of.
That and here been playing a bit with OpenPeak Jogglers and found that the tiny RTC with battery provides a much needed battery backed up RTC for the Joggler which was dependent on the cloud for its time (guessing it was timeless?)
Relooking at my Zee-2 now and your Homeseer script and thinking of removing the PiFace clock and replacing it with a DS-1307 RTC with 1 1-wire temperature sensor. This way I am killing two birds with one stone per say.
It will work just fine and is easier than running additional cron jobs / perl script on the RPi2 running Homeseer 3. Rob's script does that with an externally connected USB 1-Wire hub.
Many folks are just learning what they can do with the GPIO ports on the RPi2 utilizing Homeseer 3. Many do not tinker much with the RPi2 hardware and just utilize HS3 with external USB devices.
Yeah here initially it was an experiment on the Zee-2 using an external USB connected 1-Wire hub and posting the one minute sensors stuff to a text file.
My Zee-2 in the attic has the RTC PiFace clock and GPIO Z-Wave Plus card in it and it has been running in the attic with Homeseer 3 just fine.
I connected a tiny USB hub on it with 2-temperature and 1 humidly sensor to the hub.
The stacked RTC shim and GPIO board made it difficult to tinker with the GPIO pins on the device.
Later on played with doing some bit banging using a DS1307 RTC on my little OpenWRT 2" X 2" microrouter. I really am amazed what the tiny device can do.
I know here I am venturing a bit to a tangent and this doesn't relate directly to the RPi2 but in fact was a learning tool for me relating to the RPi2.
I didn't know until I read some about it that I could connect / solder on one 1-Wire temperature sensor on the tiny rtc board. See the image here. The three pins on the top right are for one 1-wire sensor and no pull up resistors are needed.
The traces though are backwards so you have to install the 1-Wire maxim temperature sensor in reverse. (kind of a gotcha flaw in the design of the board tracings). It should have been labeled with pin #'s simply 1,2 and 3.
Well too they put a charging circuit on the board for a rechargeable lithium battery. Pictured is the correct battery.
Bad thing is that it is mostly sold with a non rechargeable lithium battery that could maybe explode?
Wondering now if folks are putting these in their RPi's and wondering why they are exploding (I haven't hear of any doing this yet).
I did that and it worked and is working on 2 micro routers with a 400Mhz CPU and hardly any play space (RAM) to speak of.
That and here been playing a bit with OpenPeak Jogglers and found that the tiny RTC with battery provides a much needed battery backed up RTC for the Joggler which was dependent on the cloud for its time (guessing it was timeless?)
Relooking at my Zee-2 now and your Homeseer script and thinking of removing the PiFace clock and replacing it with a DS-1307 RTC with 1 1-wire temperature sensor. This way I am killing two birds with one stone per say.
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